I’ve been playing with Socialthing for a few weeks (link to blog below). They recently outed themselves at SXSW, and were blessed with a barrage of traffic from TechCrunch.
Of course, they are not he first on scene, and are now being compared to FriendFeed (which I have also played with).
My take on FriendFeed is that they are too focused on ‘me’ and ‘pubilc’ instead of ‘friends’ and ‘private’.
For example, the only reason I would want to aggregate my own lifestream is to show it to someone else (FriendFeed). The reason I want to aggregate my friends’ lifestreams is to follow them all from one place, hence I don’t want to see my own stream (SocialThing). Ok, so I might be simplistic and egotistic here, but it’s what I am looking for in lifestream aggregators (though I’ve been mulling over some earlier comments).
I, so far, like the way they have it set up. It dovetails with a lot of my thoughts over the past years.
Now, they mention ‘post stuff back the network’. I need to learn more.
Link: A semi-FAQ
Socialthing! is and always has been about making your digital life easier. We bring your friends into one interface, make it easy to post stuff back to the networks, and just in general, try to make social networking easier.
