SocialThing: More Than Just A Feed
After being disappointed with friendfeed, you’d think I’d shy away from "lifestreaming" services. Well, you’d be wrong. I am, after all, addicted to anything beta (especially private beta), so if it’s new and shiny, I have to check it out.
So, last night while at the morecheeba concert, I got an invite to socialthing (thx @chelpixie) and checked it out this morning. If the amount of hype and excitement over friendfeed is extended to socialthing, people will be calling socialthing the new google. Or maybe the next Microsoft. How about the next Wal-Mart? Or the next America?
The Big Difference
While friendfeed just scrapes your activity stream from the services you use and stores them in one place, SocialThing takes it one step farther. Socialthing allows you to post to the services you use. While it is kind of nice to have transcriptions of all your conversations in one place, it’s even more useful to be able to participate in all your conversations no matter where they’re happening online.
How It Works
After signing up for the service, you enter the usernames and passwords for the services you want socialthing to access:
Socialthing currently supports flickr, LiveJournal, Pownce, facebook, twitter and vimeo. Just choose which services you want to access from social thing, and you can post to them:
I chose twitter and facebook, and it worked like a charm. Here’s what the lifestream looks like:
I may be changing my tune on lifestreaming. I’m actually seeing the value here. I wonder which additional services will be added to socialthing. Hmmmmm.
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