 I've just added a new channel to this site that displays the 15 most recent links I've posted to Twitter. Its a simple idea, but one that I'm finding quite handy.
How it all started...
I've been using bit.ly to shorten links that I post to Twitter. There are many similar link shortening services (e.g., tinyurl.com, is.gd, tr.im, twurl, etc.), but a while ago I switched from tinyurl.com to bit.ly because I liked the way bit.ly maintained usage statistics on each shortened link. It's nice to see how much activity each shortened link is getting.
Over the past few weeks, I've received a number of inquiries from people asking me about some link or another that I posted to Twitter. The trouble with shortened links is they all look the same. After a couple times searching my Twitter timeline trying to track down a link, I realize that the bit.ly dashboard was a better place to look for links. Not only does the dashboard present all shortened links in an easy-to-browse format, it provides the full title of each linked page, making it much easier to find a specific link.
The aha! moment...
Then, a light bulb went off when I realized that bit.ly also provides an RSS feed of all my recently shortened links. Using this RSS feed, I added a new "Bookmarks" channel to this site that aggregates details about recent links and presents them right in this site. (I also subscribed to the RSS feed in my Google Reader.)
Now its easy for me (or you) to browse recently posted links.
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