discussions in SocialThing

I didn't expect a reply feature to be available this quickly. Totally rockin' out.

Pownce is working great too.

Just wondering whether Socialthing will allow me to make my lifestream feed, or to look at the lifestream feeds of fellow Socialthing users?

I think you guys need to be recognized for this. Goes to show your hard work is paying off. Congrats to the Socialthing! team!

Mahalo Daily 3/10/08

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guys great idea with Socialthing, works fantastic ..exactly what I was looking for + app for the iphone ..what more could you ask for. Keep up the fantastic work!

/iphone app works great on wifi, but almost never via Edge. Any thoughts?

Why can't we add generic RSS feeds to our lifestream? (this will be valuable when we have RSS for our lifestreams) You could implement some kind of claiming system to prove the rss feeds belong to the user... so that lifestream won't turn into a regular feed reader. ;)

We could then provide an image to act as icon and the title and URL would be specified in the feed. (or could be overruled by us entering other title/url?).

Just got feedback from some of my friends that Socialthing! seems kind of stalkerish. It's a narrowminded point of view, but a screenshot of all a person's network feeds kinda gave off that vibe lol. It's really hard to get anyone I know interested in social networking.

I have recently received a SocialThing! invited and was excited to check it out. I hadn't been a fan of FriendFeed but was more excited for ST! b/c it can send back to sites. After using it for about a week now, here is a quick review with lots of Feedback on ideas I'd like to see. I also tryed not to include things already being reported.

SocialThing ideas:

• Dropdown option to see only Twitter Updates, or only Facebook updates maybe...or a third option to sort Friendstream by website/network


• Or possibly a second homepage of sorts that is in 3 columns that has the (5?) most recent updates from each of your associated networks. (I really like this idea)


• When I 'heart' or 'favorite' something...where does that go? or where can I view those?


• Where is the link to my 'public' feed or profile? Shouldn't it be: www.socialthing.com/username ? I assume there is one because when you add a Service it asks if you want it in your public profile. If there is no such thing as a public feed, I think there definitely should be one.


• It would be nice when I click a certain user and there own tab comes up, that it finds what other services this user has that I don't already know about. Say my friend Nicole has twitter and facebook, and that comes up in my friendstream...but she also has a youtube, that option shows up so that I can actually add her as a friend via youtube. I don't know how that would work. Maybe if Nicole used SocialThing and added that service, when you click a user it finds their SocialThing account and shows all their services? Maybe not possible but would be really nice

Other:

• I don't think Last.fm works this way, but it would be nice to see what my friends scrobbled recently, instead of just what I listened to (which I already know).


• For those users of Stylish (FF add-on), I've fixed up the design a tiny bit, more to my liking, with hover states and removing 3d. I think it's easier to read on the eyes. That can be found here if you'd like: http://userstyles.org/styles/10263 quick image:


• I am having a problem with my Flickr account so I couldn't test that, and I don't have a Vimeo or Youtube account so couldn't test those (even tho I use those services)


• Am waiting on Wordpress and Virb service.

External Apps suggestions:

• Twitterific-like external programs for Mac/PC would eventually be nice


• Maybe a Netvibes/iGoogle widget


• AIM sn like Twitter has, that will post to SocialThing and all your sites at once


• FireFox sidebar add-on?


• possible mobile phone use?

Basically I think SocialThing! seems great so far. I love that I post to Twitter/Pownce/Facebook all at the same time. (Tho Facebook keeps asking me to reauntheticate...I see other people have already reported that problem.) I see room for improvement and know that it's a young app...but with added Services and Features I can see this becoming a needed social life-line for anybody thats involved with 3+ networks. Right now I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars!

The update boxes are a little bulky when you start seeing many users with 1 update at a time (like Fbook status updates), and the boxes could eventually get more compact to show these better. I think my idea of a second homepage (another tab?) that splits the page into 3 columns with a box for each of your services with the most recent updates, can really work. I don't want it to replace the Friendstream tho, but for those that want a quick Dashboard, it would be nice.

Oh and sorry if this was a bit long =), thats why I posted it in discussions. I would like to mark all these down as 'feedback' and 'ideas' but I didn't want to overload anything, or seem too cocky.

ML
www.matthewlettini.com

ps - Congrats on being bought by AOL. I've worked for a Startup and thats usually the one thing you're striving to do. I really hope, however, that AOL doesn't eff with the ideas and plans of SocialThing. It's always upsetting when a major company buys a site, then ruins it by changing names of features, and how it looks, and throwing their logo all over the site, and adding Ads, adding unwanted features, etc. I'm already not a huge fan of AOL, and I've seen them and others (like Yahoo) do this with many good sites. Stay strong!

I've setup my twitter, flickr, and facebook accounts ... now what? what keeps me around?

Should we allow machines to have human-like intelligence

We want to hear what kind of features that you want to see in the API.

Go ahead and reply to this and tell us what feature you think our API couldn't do without. Anything that you see from another user that makes sense, or you just plain like...go ahead and vote that up.

Does (will) SocialThing support custom domains? That would be ideal for me.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/...

looks like socialthing got better feedback!

Can you give an estimate as to when more services are going to be added...
a week? a month? 6 months? a year?

In particular i am curious about the ones that your 'Currently Working On'...

thanks.

M!

I'd love to know what the upcoming services will be that will be included in SocialThing. A suggestions page would be nice. I'd like to have the option to include my friend's blog/RSS feeds (though as there is no "central" blog-SN, it makes things trickier, I agree), Seesmic videos, del.icio.us links, Google Reader Shared items.

Are there technical constraints preventing you from adding them, or is it just that it takes time? Would be nice to know what's in the works, what's not going to happen, etc.

Nice work, everybody.

Posting to Twitter, Pownce, and Facebook all at once gives the "is twittering" in the Facebook status. When posting to Facebook by itself, it doesn't show the "is twittering". Not a big deal. I just know that some people get annoyed by the "is twittering" thing anyway.

Also, I was able to authorize Facebook's posting permissions from the Lifestream post tab, but not through the iPhone app. I was using the iPhone app when I saw the Tweet update about Facebook. Right away I started searching Facebook to find the permissions setting and couldn't find it. All good though, it's fun trying to figure stuff out.

It gives the Lifestream an interactive feeling. Thumbs up!