Ally Backlund's dashboard

Brian M replied 5 days ago to the question "Can I friend other socialthing! users?" in Socialthing!:

This is why I love Socialthing! You don't have to re-friend anyone. And it's such an important differentiator from similar services like FriendFeed, I think you guys should find a succinct way to promote this feature on your home page.

Ally Backlund replied 6 days ago to the question "Can I friend other socialthing! users?" in Socialthing!:

Jhames, you cannot actually befriend a user on Socialthing! The point behind this is that we want you to be able to see what all your friends are doing without having to create another social network of friends again, and so that you can see all of your friends' info without them having to be on Socialthing!

However, we will eventually have user profiles so that you can see who is on it and see their profile. :)

Ally Backlund replied 17 days ago to the question "Realtime updates in near future." in Socialthing!:

codyks- There is always going to be a little bit of delay because we can only request information so often, however we are doing our best to try and minimize the delay as much as we can, so yes it will improve. Hope this helps and glad to hear you're enjoying the site!

andrew miller replied 17 days ago to the idea "combine my friend's twitter & facebook accounts" in Socialthing!:

got it. thanks ally!

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Ally Backlund replied 17 days ago to the idea "combine my friend's twitter & facebook accounts" in Socialthing!:

Yes, I was trying to explain that in the last part of that paragraph, sorry if it wasn't clear. I also assumed that the name would just group when I first started using it, so I understand the confusion. :)

andrew miller replied 17 days ago to the idea "combine my friend's twitter & facebook accounts" in Socialthing!:

thanks! thought this was how it would work but didn't see immediate results. I think what confused me is that I standardized to my friend's Facebook name ("Jane Doe") for Flickr (formerly "janedoe") & Twitter (formerly "janed0"), but that didn't automatically scoop up her Facebook identity (already "Jane Doe"). I had to click "rename" on the Facebook post in order to link it with the other two. Make sense?

Ally Backlund replied 17 days ago to the idea "combine my friend's twitter & facebook accounts" in Socialthing!:

Andrew-- You can group these posts so they appear as one by simply grouping the identities of the person. If you click on the person's name, it will give you the ability to rename them. Do this on all of the services they're using (even if their Facebook name is the same as you are naming them) and it will group their multiple posts into one. Hope this helps!

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Ally Backlund replied 18 days ago to the problem "Why no underscore in usernames?" in Socialthing!:

Graham- We don't allow underscores in the username because in the future we plan to do domain names such as "username.socialthing.com" for each user's public profile. Since underscores are not allowed in domain names, we aren't allowing them in our usernames. Hope this helps!

Ally Backlund replied 18 days ago to the question "When will full integration of friends' details occur?" in Socialthing!:

Socialthing! actually grabs all of your contacts from all of the services you add for you. As soon as you add a service, all of your friends are automatically in your Lifestream. No one else has to have Socialthing! for you to see their content.

globalnomad replied 20 days ago to the question "Adding Multiple Twitter Accounts" in Socialthing!:

Thanks for the quick reply. Expand that request to multiple accounts for any sites not just twitter.

Not sure if you know but FriendFeed already allows this for Twitter.

Keep up the good work...I like what I see!

cgranier replied 20 days ago to the question "Why am I seeing private Flickr photos on my lifestream?" in Socialthing!:

Thanks... glad to hear that!

Ally Backlund replied 20 days ago to the question "Why am I seeing private Flickr photos on my lifestream?" in Socialthing!:

That is correct. If you've set anything on private, it can't be seen. The setting you selected on Socialthing! is only applied to "public" items.

Ally Backlund replied 20 days ago to the question "Adding Multiple Twitter Accounts" in Socialthing!:

Unfortunately, we don't currently support adding multiple accounts, but plan to support this in the future!

cgranier replied 20 days ago to the question "Why am I seeing private Flickr photos on my lifestream?" in Socialthing!:

Thanks for quick response. So, if photo is private on Flickr, no one on socialthing can see them? Even if Flickr settings on socialthing say "Share with friends on any service...."?

Ally Backlund replied 20 days ago to the question "Why am I seeing private Flickr photos on my lifestream?" in Socialthing!:

The photos only showed up in your Lifestream because its your personal Flickr account and something you posted. If you set it to private then no one but you will be able to see it. We respect all privacy settings of all of the services we support. :)

Partha Srinivasan replied 20 days ago to the problem "feed me!!!" in Socialthing!:

feeling better already!!!!

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Ally Backlund replied 20 days ago to the problem "feed me!!!" in Socialthing!:

Great to hear its working! We are not currently supporting IE, so that may have been your problem. Other than that, it should be running fine but let us know if it happens again.

There will be more services added soon-- a lot more. For now you can vote for what you'd like to see under the "Vote" tab on the right hand side of the Lifestream. If you'd like to see a service added that is not listed, there is also an option to suggest services to be added. Hope this helps!