Recently active questions in SocialThing tagged with lifestream

What is the point in adding your digg user name to social thing? I added mine and I see no updates via digg about anything I've dugg, favorited, or shouted... Is mine just broken?

Why do Facebook updates only appear after the lifestream has been open for a couple minutes? Then I have to refresh for those updates to snap in to the right chronological order. Why aren't the updates present in the stream when I load the page, like recent Twitter and Plurk updates? This behavior is inconsistent and slightly annoying. I like to load up the page, take a quick look, then close it to go do something else or leave my desk. I would prefer the updates to be there already. Right now it's faster to load Facebook separately, check both tabs, and close both. I like SocialThing's goal of streamlining social networking, however it only seems to work if I want to stay chained to an open browser all day.
Thanks,
Joe

It would that the combining of various feeds does not work if there's a time difference of more than a minute or so between fetching/viewing.

For an example I mainly use twitter and Pownce with SocialThing:
24 mins ago SocialThing checked my Pownce friends and found one update - and displayed the one new item.
A short time later I am informed that I have two updates from twitter. I check and find that the oldest one is the twitter version of the Pownce update. But instead of being combined with the Pownce version, it is it's only entity. So one new twitter post to read in fact.
A few mins later, I am informed that I have one new Pownce message to read. This Pownce message however turns out to be a copy of the youngest of the the two twitter messages before. Again this message has not been combined.

The interesting thing about this four messages is: when I look at my time line, SocialThink knows that the time of posting for the 1st pair was 32 mins ago, and the time of posting for the 2nd pair was 27 mins ago. It just hasn't combined them.

Interestingly enough I don't seem to run into this issue much if I'm haven't been logged into the site and I'm reading catchup on people's postings.

I guess in short I'm asking, could we have the combining be a little smarter please?

For each service when something new comes up in my lifestream (everything i've done) you should make it so each service is grouped together like it is on friendfeed. For example for Digg it could say you have dugg 12 stories and there is an expand button so you can see them all separately. This would be really helpful for people who have a lot of services or post a lot.

In regards to the user's own lifestream, what determines the oldest update? For example my oldest update is April 21, 2008 (a Vimeo Like) but I have items from my other services such as del.icio.us & Flickr which go way back.

Would they get included as well & how is it worked out in general?

My Lifestream is failing to load ALL of my data: pownce, flickr, livejournal, twitter, and facebook.

Can I subscribe to someone else's lifestream? And if not, why not?

Thanks!

i left my ST lifestream open in my browser over night and i came back this morning. all of the entries said they happened 3 minutes ago, or 10 minutes ago, and i was confused for a moment about what i was looking at. is socialthing going to start pushing the newest content in on a regular basis, or could it show it what time/date the last update happened so i can think to re-fresh the page (even a refresh button would be a good reminder).

How do I integrate all of my friends' updates? On Friendfeed, I have the ability to add friends. With Socialthing!, I'm guessing that those updates that I DO see are from those who already have a Socialthing! acct. Help?!?

i bloody love this even 2 mins in!! good work guys this is much much better than friendfeed. would like a few more services like jaiku, last.fm and stuff but i imagine that's coming :)

When one of my friends updates multiple services (ie Twitter and Pownce) with the same message, should the lifestream display those messages separately or as one message?
Example:
ABC is now playing with SocialThing! from twitter
ABC is now playing with SocialThing! from pownce
ABC is now playing with SocialThing! from facebook

Should be:

ABC is now playing with SocialThing! from Twitter, Pownce, Facebook

iphone for socialthing? is that not readily available?

So.. i might just be looking in the wrong place but after i merge contacts i lose some of the features/abilities that i had when they were separate entries.

For example.

John Doe Tweet - "This is my update!! "
John Doe Facebook Status- "This is my update!! "

Once these two entries are combined, i lose the ability to reply to the tweet.
Any suggestions?

Is there a way to merge contacts?
For example, I have a friend who is on both Twitter and Facebook and when he makes updates i see two separate updates which are visually disconnected.. Is there a way to have them visually grouped together like what happens when someone makes successive updates ?

did that make sense?

M!

I want to add all of my Flickr accounts (who have different friend sets) and the same for Twitter...

My twitter direct messages remain private, right? In my lifestream, they are visible but another colour. I'd want some clear notification that I'm the only person who's going to see them.

I was looking at my own twitter posts in my lifestream and I noticed that the "Twitter Profile" link was a link to socialthing.com instead of to my actual twitter profile. Also instead of my twitter picture, it displays the socialthing! blob dude. Is that the expected behavior?

Also I have a mixed case last name (ex. McMurphy) but only the first letter is capitalized. In on my profile page the correct capitalization is entered but in the lifestream the second capital letter is made lowercase.

Any chance of supporting thesixtyone.com? Not sure if they have an API yet but something to keep an eye on.

Keep up the good work!