Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan - ReadWriteWeb
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Socialthing!'s goal is to be what we call a "digital life manager
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Socialthing! is a digital life manager, a single place that you will go to manage the networks that you're a part of elsewhere.
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One is that we don't just aggregate a feed, but rather, aggregate your feed, all of your friends, and all of the things that they've been doing on those services
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Socialthing! sends all user activity out to the external sites whereas FriendFeed keeps everything internal as FriendFeed comments
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FriendFeed a social network of social networks while Socialthing! is (currently) an aggregator for social networks
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FriendFeed is adding to my information overload whereas Socialthing! currently helps me receive a lot of information and deal with it efficiently
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here's just simply too much "friending" that exists on the web right now, and going and searching for your friends with every single new service that pops up is annoying and repetitive, so not requiring the user to do that was of utmost importance.
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Bringing Lifestreaming to the masses with a very simple, easy to use interface where there is hardly any onboarding process required.
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all without ever leaving the same site. Imagine Meebo, or Trillian for social network
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on 2008-03-24 by takuya514