Fleck Lite – Like Delicious, for Tweets
20 Nov
Editor’s Note: After testing it for a few weeks, Fleck is losing my satisfaction. On multiple occasions, the URL included in my FleckTweet directed my readers to the wrong page. Bad Fleck.
Tweeting a URL is easy. Most third-party Twitter tools like Twhirl and TweetDeck have built-in URL shorteners. Now, Fleck Lite offers a way to aggregate the URLs you’ve Tweet via social bookmarking.
So…Why Fleck Lite?
Every once in a while, I unplug from Twitter. Crazy, right? Unfortunately, every second that I’m unplugged I’m missing links shared by bright people.
Until now, my options were limited. I could visit your Twitter page, scroll through your Tweet stream, and visually sift through in a bid to discern the links from the general Tweets. Tedious, to say the least.
If you were using Fleck Lite, though, I could visit your bookmarks page and see only the Tweets in which you included a URL. Fleck Lite will send the Tweet AND archive the link. It’s like Delicious + Twitter, but don’t tell Fleck that.
Social Bookmarking Makes a Comeback?
I’m of the opinion that Twitter is a threat to social bookmarking sites like Delicious. Why? Because we’re already suffering information overload, and when we can share links via Twitter, why would I want to go somewhere else for content referrals?
Fleck Lite is a win for social bookmarking, though, because it makes cross-platform connectedness easier, just as TwitterFeed makes it easier to syndicate your blog content to your Twitter stream.
Final Verdict
So far, I like Fleck Lite. It still has room to improve, but definitely worth giving it a whirl.
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