For some weeks I’ve heard rumbles in the Twittersphere about Socialthing! Anything that is private beta always gets my curiosity. Thanks to Jon I got an invite to try it out. Here’s an explanation of what it’s all about, from the Socialthing! website…
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…
The services you can currently add to your Lifestream in Socialthing! are Facebook, Flickr, Pownce, Twitter, Vimeo and Livejournal. I’m sure more services will be added in time. I had initially set my Socialthing! Lifestream page as my homepage in Camino so I could quickly catch up with all the services I use in one fell swoop at the start of my day. However, it seems that after a while it forgets that I have logged in and requested to be kept signed in, so it’s a little annoying to have to log-in each time. Hopefully that’s something that can be ironed out, even if it is indeed a bug.
I have got 2 invites 1 invites 0 invites left for Socialthing! if you’d like one. The first two people to comment on this entry will get an invite.
20 Mar 08
11:45 pm
Oh an invite would be cool if you have one. Thanks!
20 Mar 08
11:50 pm
It really does pay to stay up late!
I would love an invite
20 Mar 08
11:55 pm
Jonathan: Tried sending an invite to you, said you’d been invited already so couldn’t send it.
Christian: It’s on it’s way
21 Mar 08
1:14 am
Goddam, I missed out!
Oh well, at least I’ve come across someone else with the comment form in this style, I’ve attempted it (but it needs cleaning up still) on my blog — http://swedishcampground.com/
21 Mar 08
2:10 am
I would love one if one is still available. Thanks, Sam.
21 Mar 08
2:25 am
Caius: You weren’t too late - invites on it’s way
Chris: None left I’m afraid
Hopefully I’ll get a couple more soon and I’ll send one straight off to you.
21 Mar 08
3:49 am
ooh ace, although I can’t quite see the point of the site. I mean I already have a desktop client for twitter, anything good on flickr is emailed to me and facebook is in my RSS reader, so I’ve already seen the stuff in this site. Plus I like having the various services separate, it stops me having information overload when working!
21 Mar 08
3:41 pm
Sounds a bit like how MyBlogLog have expanded into displaying all the social networking info on your contacts, Flickr, Last.fm and Digg are just a couple i can remember
21 Mar 08
7:54 pm
Hey Sam, glad you are liking it - it’s a great concept but will I use it every day!? Hmmmm… not sure…..
21 Mar 08
7:58 pm
It is a nice idea, but not sure I’ll be using it much. Like I mentioned, if you want to quickly catch up with all your services without going to the individual sites, say for example you’re not on your own computer and don’t want to login to all those seperate sites, then it’s good for that.
I just noticed another site like this - FriendFeed. Seems like they’re all the rage now. I wonder which ones will still be around this time next year
22 Mar 08
1:21 am
Hi Sam - you’re right, I checked through my inbox (400 something unread!) and found I was sent an invite to SocialThing on Monday - so I’ve just opened an account…
I’ve been using FriendFeed for a few months now, and it is interesting to compare the two lifestreaming services. FriendFeed is obviously in a more mature state at the moment - offering support for more services, but I’ve got a good feeling about SocialThing already.
I’m impressed with the way that SocialThing allows posting of updates back to services, also by the way in which it brings your existing contacts (from Twitter, Facebook etc) in as you join - FriendFeed requires you to ‘re-friend’ contacts. Whilst FriendFeed is interesting I can see SocialThing actually being useful…
24 Mar 08
10:04 pm
Thanks for explaining FriendFeed, Jonathan
The nice thing about Socialthing!, as you say, is posting updates back to the services - either individually or choosing ‘all’. Quite a nice feature that may appeal to many people.
27 Mar 08
12:01 pm
I know you offered me an invite the other day, but I guess I was too slow to snap one up! Can haz if you get any more?
Cheers m’dear.
27 Mar 08
2:35 pm
You haz mail, G!
18 Apr 08
10:18 pm
I have 10 more invites for Socialthing! As ever, just pop a comment in here and I’ll get one off to you.