Dipity è un aggregatore sociale: registra i contenuti che gli utenti pubblicano su siti come YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Picasa, Wordpress, ma a differenza di FriendFeed e SocialThing! ogni singolo evento è rappresentato su una timeline da un rettangolino, facilmente espandibile al passaggio del mouse.
Questa visualizzazione permette di contestualizzare meglio gli eventi e di confrontare rapidamente le proprie attività con quelle dei propri amici / contatti.

Dipity è semplice da usare anche per chi non conosce servizi simili: basta abbinare ai siti supportati il nick con il quale ci si è registrati e l'applicazione importerà automaticamente i contenuti pubblicati in rete.

E' possibile anche monitorare determinati topic di discussione impostando le proprie preferenze nel menu "My Topics" e anche salvare le varie password utilizzate nei servizi abbinati.

Dipity e gli altri aggregatori sociali sono un ottimo strumento per non perdere la rotta e la propria identità nel mare dei servizi proposti dal web 2.0.

But before you start out, here are some basic ideas:

- Content is KING: the best content in your industry is worth gold.
- Numbers count: everyone understands that the more connected you are, the more relevant you are.
- Distribution: you OWN distribution of your content, there is no barrier between readers/prospects and your company - There is no editor in chief privileging your competitor story.
- It's about being Human: We are gregarious by DNA. We like social contact and we'd rather buy stuff cos our friends told so and it is fixin' our basic and not so basic needs.
- 'It's business, (stupid)': If you doubt it, just look at the valuation of those puppies.... The so called Social Graph will soon have more power than any other sales force.
- Authenticity rules: Be true to your brand and your customer or you'll go to hell.

If you want to experiment yourself, you need a blog.  No blog - you don't exist, seriously.

Now meet the mighty graph which explains the basics of what I call an RSS Architecture..... if you like it, say so, bookmark it (funky button at the bottom of that blog). If you don't, tell me how you would modify it.  Now we're being social!

So what are the basic steps?
- Connect your customer-friend-ecosystem to your company brand online.
- Feed them / publish excellent content that will make them happy to have read or seen you (youtube,flickr...).
- Allow for 2 way conversation with them and respond (to what matters, not everything).

Oh YEAH! This is applicable to the following:

- A brand
- A business -- small or large (larger can't move very fast so they struggle a bit with that)
- A [true] customer centric company
- A product launch
- A message as part of your overall marketing strategy
- An individual (brand)
- Selling a house
- A political campaign :)
- A non profit fundraising endeavor
- A product development team

....and too many others to list.....

It is NOT applicable to:
- Spammers
- Arrogant brands
- People afraid to lose control of the message (you're lost anyway).

Now stop thinking that Social Networking is just for kiddos who are bored.... it's you, me and everyone else thinking stuff, buying stuff, reading stuff.

TOGETHER WE RISE. :)

Yann

If you like it click on the 'add this' button below (you'll need a account at Stumbleupon, Digg or Delicious - this is just another marketing tactic you need to do)

Can the pure-play Social Web Aggregators grow fast and long enough to achieve escape velocity before the big former walled garden services, like Facebook and MySpace, re-invent themselves into true Social Web Aggregators?

Glad to say I was wrong on that one. The post children of the Web 2.0 craze are social media sites and their open APIs. For every micro-blogging site like Twitter, there is a 3rd party AIR app like Twhirl that is built on its API. There are applications like Digsby that are mashups of "old" IM and "new" social media. And now there are Lifestreams - services that are successfully built around the goal of aggregating the streams of information from all these social media sites into one simplified view.

The king of the hill in the Lifestream community is FriendFeed, which launched privately in 2007 and opened a public beta in Feb 08 with a $5 million Series A funding. FriendFeed was covered mightily by the l33t bloggers at TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb. At first, I thought it was mostly because it was more because of the founding team of 4 ex-Google execs. I suppose that's with good cause. There's a fraternity of ex-Google employees that have gone on to fortune and glory. Sergey & Larry and Google are the 2000's version of Jack Welch and General Electric.

The speed with which FriendFeed integrated profiles, statuses, and all other rss feeds it could lay its hands on changed my opinion of the service. Their product development methodology firmly guided by their Google background, FriendFeed put together a very simple design and then focused entirely on the product functionality itself. FriendFeed quickly added the most popular services in the all the major categories - microblogging, video blogging, photos, status, news, and music. They cleverly added RSS feeds from sites that you wouldn't think of as 2.0 - Amazon's Wishlist and Netflix's favorites. That's a mashup of sorts. In early 2008, FriendFeed had clearly focused on the aggregation of services, ballooning to 43 services at the time of this writing. Functionality exists to post to the aggregated Lifestream through a simple "Comment" feature, but in my opinion that's not a useful service. Here's why - if your friend uses Pownce for micro-blogging and you comment on that post in FriendFeed, your comment doesn't become a Pownce update. After some pressure, FriendFeed did add an option to make FriendFeed comments become tweets, but that's the limit of integration with other services from an update perspective. Recent feature additions include the concept of "rooms" and the integration of FriendFeed comments as part of blog comments. Like their chatroom namesakes before them, FriendFeed Rooms are essentially a group of people discussing a specific topic - using FriendFeed comments of course. The blog comment mechanism came to be as plug-ins for Wordpress and Movable Type, where you can see FriendFeed discussions as part of your blog commentary.

Upstart SocialThing! launched in beta after securing $300k in "early stage" funding in the Fall of 2007. From the start, SocialThing! has attempted to avoid direct competition with the larger and more popular FriendFeed by claiming that they're a different breed of Lifestream that's not competitive at all. There's a lot of truth to that. Where FriendFeed focused on pulling together all the RSS it could lay its hands on, SocialThing has focused on 2 way integration with the services it supports. SocialThing's design more closely mimics others in the Web 2.0 space, which stands in contrast to FriendFeed's mimimalistic user interface. FriendFeed comments require a FriendFeed reader (website or AIR app) to view. SocialThing caught on earlier about that major drawback. When you post a response to someone using SocialThing, it posts directly to the service, not to itself. Additionally, when you make changes to your profile or add/remove friends on other services, these changes automatically occur in your SocialThing account. This makes SocialThing more heavily reliant on 3rd party API, which is risky. But, the risk outweighs the benefits to AOL, who recently decided to acquire SocialThing earlier this August. AOL probably has desire to pair SocialThing  with Meebo, a web-based IM client that it has a significant investment stake in.

In summary, the top 2 Lifestream services both offer RSS and social media stream aggregation. FriendFeed focuses on aggregating as many streams as it can, where SocialThing focuses on a more complete 2-way integration with each of the services it supports. With the acquisition by AOL, SocialThing's product roadmap is in doubt. The future for FriendFeed seems focused on slowly turning the discussion from Tweets and Pownces to FriendFeed comments.

You can find me on FriendFeed and SocialThing. Add a comment below if you'd like an invite to the SocialThing beta. More importantly - I'd be interested to hear how you're using either or both of this services.

Ok, I know twittering has kidnapped me from blogging, and I admit I am addicted to read more than to tweet. All thanks to the interesting people I am following up there.

I used to get the sms's from 1pm till 11pm everyday. Sometimes they were nice, sometimes they were annoying specially while I was driving. But it was fun!.

Unfortunately, this fun is not enjoyable no more.

Due to the high costs of sms forwarding via the UK number of twitter that all people outside the US/Canada/India use, twitter decided to halt this service. They claim it coast $1000/user/year.

The SMS thingy twitter had was one of the most important reasons why people joined twitter and not any other service. Other services that I've used before were Pownce, which has the advantage of file sharing.

So, from now on I will be using my Pownce account more often until twitter sms comes back. Actually, I will be using socialthing to post and I will have both twitterrific and Pownce Air on to recive the tweets and pownces.

P.S:

I got 11 invites for socialthing.com, pownce me if your intrested :P

Socialthing has been aquired by AOL during the weekend!

Yesterday, CBS sent out a press release touting the success of Last.fm’s month-old redesign, citing a 20 percent increase in unique visitors and a 36 percent increase in total minutes between June and July. Despite a few bugs on the day of launch, the redesign seems to be paying off. But why is CBS so keen on beating its chest when it comes to Last.fm? Ever since CBS bought Last.fm in May, 2007 for $280 million, it’s been under pressure to justify the purchase. At the time of the purchase, Last.fm was running neck-and-neck against social music network imeem and music radio service Pandora.. Today, imeem is killing Last.fm (see Google Trends for Websites chart above), and Pandora is still holding its own. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/lastfm-needs-more-than-a-redesign-to-catch-up-to-imeem 8/15)

Techcrunch received confirmation from AOL that the company has acquired Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service that competes with FriendFeed. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/confirmed-aol-acquires-lifestreaming-service-socialthing 8/14)

CBSNews.com and CNET.com will feature live, Web-exclusive specials anchored by Katie Couric each night following CBS's prime time coverage of the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions. The Webcasts will be archived for on-demand viewing. (Iwantmedia 8/15, http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6587662.html 8/14)

Facebook’s controversial and widely-disdained Beacon service, which it originally introduced in November, has led to the company behind slapped with another class action lawsuit. The suit alleges that Facebook never sought user approval before collecting personal information, and was also keeping tabs on people who weren’t even signed up for Facebook. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/facebook-gets-slapped-with-another-lawsuit-over-beacon-wishes-it-could-opt-out 8/14)

After more than two months of testing, Google has finally turned on AdSense for Feeds. Formerly, these were FeedBurner ads. The acquired company has moved its advertising program over to Google’s system, and now any AdSense advertiser can tap into the Feedburner network. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/google-turns-on-adsense-for-feeds 8/15)

With the appointment of Frank Biondi, Jr. and John Chapple to Yahoo’s board of directors today, the last two slots on the board are now filled. Biondi, the former CEO of Viacom, and Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel, were both on Carl Icahn’s original alternate slate when he was still trying to replace the entire board. As part of his compromise with Yahoo, Icahn backed down from his proxy battle in return for three seats on the board. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/yahoo-rounds-out-its-board-with-former-ceos-from-nextel-and-viacom 8/14)

The biggest winners of the future will be the services that do the best job of harnessing the power of the virtuous cycle of social discovery at the core of "Social Web Aggregation." Let's take a look at how two pioneers of the new model are faring, Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed...

Before looking at the numbers, it's important to remind ourselves that last summer, walled gardens were the future. Plaxo wasn't yet in the social networking space. And FriendFeed hadn't yet launched their service. It was almost exactly a year ago that Plaxo launched Pulse, the first Social Web Aggregator. [Disclosure/reminder: I work for Plaxo, but you already knew that.] One of the key questions was, "Are enough people using multiple user-generated content sites that one can build a thriving service based on 'lifestreaming' the activity streams from those services?"

So, let's look at the July numbers from Compete, which just became available within the last 48 hours. [One caveat, every third party traffic tracking service has it's limitations; Compete is looking just at U.S. traffic and does not have visibility to activity originating from client software.] How are the two most prominent pure-play Social Web Aggregators faring? In a word, "thriving."

Plaxo and FriendFeed both posted greater that 20% month-over-month growth from June to July, and Plaxo clocked 225% year-over-year growth in monthly unique visitors. (Year-over-year data for FriendFeed not yet available, but coming soon.) The slope of Plaxo's rise is slightly higher than FriendFeed's, but that is not as significant as the clear sign that both services are surging.

I am an enthusiastic user of both services and I don't see them as competing with each other. Quite the contrary. I love using FriendFeed for staying on top of what the early adopter and influencer crowd are buzzing about in public conversations. And I love using Plaxo for private sharing and conversing with highly granular control of what I share with whom.

As a footnote, the rising "aggregation" tide is *not* floating all boats equally. Latecomers, with little obvious differentiation, such as Iminta and SocialThing, have generated so little traction as to barely show up in Compete.

Congratulations to Plaxo (who pulled off a re-invention of the company and has managed to execute well through a change of ownership) and to FriendFeed (who have entered a hot space with really great focus and execution). Game on!

Answer: ST´s intent is not only to post through different services, furthermore it gives you a timeline to view your friends' posts in a tiny stream!

ping.fm on the other hand handles different kinds of posting: 1. statuses 2. blogging/micro-blogging
So they have actually different services to post to. Ping.fm does not have a timeline to view and just sends pings to your services.

With ST integrating ping.fm as a service you can now push posts through more services, like brightkite, which is not yet supported for postings by ST.

Everyone got the idea? No? Then check it out... ;D

More information you´ll find on their websites:

• http://ping.fm/blog/socialthing-in-the-house/
• http://tinyurl.com/586ph9

One of those trunks will probably be Ping.fm, a service that posts your microblogging entries to all the various services you have accounts on.

There are also various attempts to solve the reverse problem of reading updates from various different social networking sites, such as Socialthing! and FriendFeed.

Facebook

It is reasonably safe to say that the successes of Facebook will not last forever, simply given the fate of every other such web fad in the past. As Rasmus Fleischer said here (in Swedish): "Facebook is not a place, it's an event".

Photo: avlxyz (Licence)

Facebook is keeping up surprisingly well with new trends in social networking, this said mainly in reference to their update a couple of weeks ago, which switched the focus of the site strongly towards dynamic content fed into each users news feed. (Possibly under influence from FriendFeed.)

However, Facebook has a couple of problems that I think will speed up its demise, as better alternatives appear.

Broadcast communication on Facebook is not done in realtime. When you do something, it shows up in other people's news feeds after a time delay, varying greatly in length. True realtime might not be required, but the delay has to be short and predictable.

The other problem is unreliable propagation of broadcast communication. You don't actually know which of your actions will show up in your contacts' news feeds. This can be worked around in some particular cases, like by sending personal invitations to events. In any case, this makes the actual news feed near useless as a way to communicate information to your contacts.

Yes, you can send personal messages instead, but that is intrusive. One wants to be able to create a news entry that you know will be propagated to all of your contacts that wants to receive entries of that type from you. As it is, that might or might not happen, at some undetermined time.

In short, you want to be able to configure Facebook to let you know when, for instance, a contact of yours create a new event. You don't want to maybe get informed about it later.

Solutions and alternatives

Ping.fm and Socialthing! doesn't really solve these problems, as they are not social networking sites in themselves, only a way to interact with several other services from one location. However, they do let you do that in realtime to the same extent as those other services do.

FriendFeed is a sort of combination social network, RSS feed aggregator and microblogging site. It can broadcast items from your RSS feeds, and there is an API under development that can hopefully be used to integrate it with for instance external calendar applications to plan events.

A big advantage of FriendFeed as opposed to Facebook is that you can subscribe to your feed via RSS or e-mail, making sure that you get all the news items you should get, and that you only have to read them once.

AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business. Like Friendfeed or Facebook’s News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg. To beef up its lifestreaming capabilities, we have been able to confirm that it has also bought Socialthing!, a FriendFeed competitor that is still in private beta.

I remember meeting Matt and the rest of the crew at their booth at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival and then their party.  You could right away tell that these guys were cool and that they were on to something.

After SXSW, it was great to see all the new features they pushed out and the positive press.  AOL must have noticed.

I hope that them getting acquired by AOL means that they'll be out in Virginia (by us) more often.

Have you tried Socialthing? If so, what do you think?

Monster Acquires Job Search Site Trovix For $72.5 Million; Military Site Armees.com -- Monster, the incumbent job site, has announced a couple of deals this afternoon, as it looks to fight off upstart competitors, like LinkedIn, Craigslist, Indeed.com and TheLadders… first it has acquired Mountain View-based Trovix, a site that applies semantic search technology to job search. The acquisition price was $72.5 million in cash. Monster says it will integrate its technology, which can help scan resumes and job openings for better matching. Trovix was founded in 2002, and was backed by 3i, Granite Ventures and US Venture Partners. The company has announced over $18 million in funding over two rounds.

YouTube Buys Video Tools Firm Omnisio -- YouTube, part of Google, has done a rare acquisition: it has bought online video tools firm Omnisio, for an undisclosed sum. The small Atherton, CA-based startup has mashups, video annotation, video presentations and other tools to allow video sharing users to better express themselves...the thought is that these will be integrated within YouTube as well. For these mashups, the service could ingest video in from YouTube, Google Video and Blip.tv, though it may be that it discontinues Blip if it is integrated into YouTube. TC says the deal is all cash and is in the $15 million range.

WPP Group Acquires Majority Stake In Actis -- WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company, Wunderman, the New York-based global relationship marketing network, has acquired a majority stake in Alite Ltd, trading as Actis, one of Russia's leading digital agencies. Founded in 1997, Moscow-based Actis employs more than 120 people. Offering full-spectrum digital services, Actis provides strategy, design, development and content management for clients in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The agency has completed more than 700 commercial internet projects for clients including Canon, Microsoft, MTV and VimpelCom. Actis' unaudited revenues for the year ended 31 December 2007 were RUB 124m (EUR 3.4m), with gross assets at the same date of RUB 51m (EUR 1.4m). This investment continues WPP's strategy of developing its networks in fast growing markets and sectors and strengthening its capabilities in digital media.

Yellow Pages To Buy Volt Directory Services -- Yellow Pages Group said Wednesday, July 30, that it has agreed to buy the directory systems, services and North American publishing operations of Volt Information Sciences Inc. for about $178 million in cash. New York-based Volt, a staffing company, said the deal includes its directory systems and services assets, which provides telephone directory database management. Also included is DataNational, a publisher of community directories under the Community Phonebook brand.

AOL Buys Online Profile Manager SocialThing -- AOL has bought Socialthing, a company the offers to help manage users online identities, according to Techcrunch. The Boulder, CO.-based company raised $300K of a planned $500K back in October and has been in beta since last year as well. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed. In March, AOL expanded its web mail service to include tighter integration with its AIM messaging tools. The purchase of Socalthing is likely tied to efforts to make services like AIM more portable.

Socialthing.com is an online service that lets you consume most of your online social streams easily.

"See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you're missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more! " [socialthing]

Currenlty supports the following:

• Brightkite
• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Guitar Hero
• Last.fm
• Plurk
• Pownce
• Seesmic
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• YouTube

More and more services are being added as time goes by. This is a great service that keeps me updated with my favorite social services, in an easy to follow stream.

Technorati : feed, online, social, socialthing, stream

Ya ha salido la versión 2.0 de Socialthing!, la que para mí es una de las mejores webs que uso actualmente y que me ayuda bastante a mantener un seguimiento de lo que suben mis contactos en varias webs. Como no voy a hacer un copy&paste, os enlazo el post donde explican los cambios que trae esta versión.

PD: Tengo invitaciones, si quereis una y sois contacto mio en alguna web, me decis vuestro correo y os la envío. No envío invitaciones a los que me la pidan en los comentarios.

check it out

http://blog.socialthing.com/about/

See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you're missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!

Socialthing! makes it easy to see all the things your friends are doing. It's a news feed for every site that you use in one place.

It's a place to see "what's up" in your digital life, and figure out where to go to from there...

90% of the people that visit our site (not even logged in users) use FF or Safari, but we will have IE7/8 support shortly

Vía twitter de socialthing. A buen entendedor...

From day one i had not been a huge fan of big social networking sites. I could not get into Live Journal, I don't really care for MySpace, and did not understand the use of Twitter. Now after tons of trial and error, to see what really keeps you in touch and what doesn't I am now very much within the social networking..network. But with careful consideration, I feel there are only a few worthy of getting the job done.

One of the things that are great about all of my selected network sites, is it actually DOES keep you in touch with people who very much want to keep in touch with you. Facebook and MySpace are were the "big" sites for you to sign up for if you wanted to begin your networking venture. At this point, after seeing ever emo scene kid, with flat-ironed hair covering one eye, looking at their sidekick, just to see if someone they don't really know messaged them or commented their bulletin (because they ask people to) turns you off to the whole thing. After getting away from Myspace, I knew i had to stay in touch, but not with a internet community based on how many friends you have, and whether you are n their "top list" or not. Those politics, i feel, are not what social networking is about. Its about getting information to people you want to have it, and you, receiving from people you want to receive from.

This is where Pownce came into my life. I remember it was an invite-only beta, that i very much wanted to be a part of. After the wait, as soon as it was launched to the public, i knew it was exactly what i had been searching for. The user set-up is perfect. ONE photo of your choice, short description of yourself, with a chosen theme layout. That is really all you need! While setting up you can also download a native app for your Mac or PC (powered by adobe air) so you can update and see feeds straight from your desktop.  Pownce will let you advertise your site, and other social network links to the people you want, and people who are interested. Share photos, links, videos, quick! It was developed very very well, and is probably my favorite site when in front of my computer or on my iPhone. Everyone on there is on for one reason. To stay connected. This community is part of a more intelligent group which can use Pownce and Twitter to get their messages across, the way it was meant to be sent.

Although Twitter has been out long before Pownce, I feel like this is an amazing extension of that. I am a late adopter of Twit but i absolutely love it. If anything, with iPhone and Text Message integration, this is the fastest way to let people know your happenings, and vice versa. The next step to this great way of staying connected, is with more than words. This is where QIK comes in. Unfortunately, I cannot use it yet, because the iPhone cant support it without video, but any of you with Nokia's.... Get on that. If you dont know what QIK is, Click HERE to visit them and find out.

On one last note I do have to mention a great addition to these sites and all others you may own (last.fm, flickr, ect.) It is called SocialThing! and is not only quick and efficient, but it is iPhone integrated. Thanks to fellow Powncer Amber A, i was able to join the beta, which is damn near completion. This site will let you set up an account that will login in to ALL of your social sites, allowing you to view them ALL on one page of feeds, which at the same time will let you update all of YOUR sites in bulk! Also choose the ones you don't wanna update (See Photo). It just so happens to be that the best integration with this website is with Pownce and Twitter! If you can get an invite, join SocialThing! and you will love it.

-Jake

Socialthing! wins, simply because of its Facebook integration that FriendFeed lacks. Less is more.

This website (which is currently in Private Beta), allows you to go to one place to view your social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

If you use software like Google Reader to keep track of various blogs, you need socialthing! to keep track of your social networks.

You can register your details on the site and should receive an invite in the near future, or contact me via the Contact Shawz page or my profile on Facebook as I have a few invites available.

link

Here's a little notice from Website Magazine posted this morning.  For all the twittering and facebooking, etc. that goes on, these applications that pull it all together are popping up randomly. I posted on another one a while back in a post called "Twitter me this?". Well, here's another one to add to the mix. Maybe Randy or Spence will be checking it out in the private beta version and can share opinions on streamlining our social networks at their workshop LifeWorks 2.0.  Check it out!

Social Thing Makes Being Social Easier

The main issue I have with all of the social applications (Twitter) and social networks (Facebook) is the inordinate amount of time it requires to manage. I'm busy, you're busy, we're all busy, busy, busy. So how does one manage their "social lifestream"? Perhaps the answer resides in SocialThing.com - a solution which help Web users and Web professionals get their "digital life together".

I was fortunate enough to receive a private beta invite to the system and by all accounts it is truly interesting. The solution is akin to FriendFeed in that you can review all of your friends activity in one virtual location. Users can even communicate within SocialThing which should speed up your socializing considerably.

There are only a handful of social tools which users can integrate at the moment (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LiveJournal, Pownce and Vimeo) but SocialThing is currently working on integrating del.icio.us, digg, last.fm, Myspace and YouTube.

The problem I see in SocialThing is that when and if it gets truly popular, the networks that it so elegantly leverages to help its users communicate more efficiently will lose ad impressions - reason enough to cut off the free flow of data.

Social applications to manage our social applications? What do you all think?

Here's a screenshot from my SocialThing! page (click for larger view):

What I like about it is that it brings whatever your friends are doing to you. If I wanted to, I could ignore Twitter and Facebook all day and just rely on SocialThing! to give me the updates I need. Google Reader can do the rest for blogs (which is a function FriendFeed essentially duplicates).

Two other benefits of SocialThing!:

1. My friends don't have to be on it - That's why FriendFeed isn't attractive to me at the moment (yes I know you can add them as imaginary friends, but it isn't quite as fun)
2. Less worry of information overload - If 5 friends save the same post on del.icio.us on FriendFeed, I see all 5. With SocialThing!, just one post.

The one advantage FriendFeed has over SocialThing! is the ability to comment and interact directly on the FriendFeed interface, like this (click for larger picture):

However whether or not you want to have two separate conversations going on at the same time (comments and FriendFeed) is something I'm struggling with personally.

I'd argue that SocialThing!'s job is to let me know what my friends are up to, then if I want to, I can head over to Facebook to comment or reply to Twitter directly from SocialThing!. Pretty cool, no?

If you're on either/both platforms, let me know what your thoughts are. If you want an invite to SocialThing! let me know and I'll pass on one to you if I can.

If you want to know more, there's much more coverage of SocialThing!:

• FriendFeed vs. SocialThing! on ReadWriteWeb
• Watch Out FriendFeed: SocialThing! Is Even Easier To Use by TechCrunch
• Why I'm Backing SocialThing! by Muhammad Saleem

Je vous avais déjà parlé de Digsby qui était un logiciel semblable à Socialthing! Ce service web consiste à rassembler les réseaux sociaux auxquels vous êtes inscrits sur une page vous permettant ainsi de suivre en direct tous les réseaux sociaux auxquels vous appartenez.

Les mises à jour sur vos amis vous sont donc rassemblés sur cette page sur le même principe que la page principale de Facebook. Ce service est compatible avec les services Facebook, Flickr, LiveJournal, Pownce, Twitter, Vimeo et probablement plusieurs autres.

Je tente en ce moment d'obtenir des invitations pour mes lecteurs et pour moi-même. Je vous redonne des nouvelles.