Not long after my post about Socialthing, I got a comment from one of the developers:
Alex, you’re very right that more will come out of it. Subscribing to all of your friends’ RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. A service like ours allows a user to see everything on all of their networks without being overwhelming, and beyond that, some services like Facebook don’t have RSS feeds for their photos and things like that.
Now, speaking to what else we’re going to do there’s a whole lot on the roadmap but quite a few things here in just the next few weeks. Personal profiles is one, for sure…beyond that, one thing we’re really excited about is Friend Discovery, basically a feature that compares your social graphs and figures out where you’re “missing connections” …IE you’re friends with someone on Facebook but not on Flickr…we know that and we can provide you an easy way to connect those back up. We’ll also have easy ways for you to interact with the data – replying to Twitter posts, commenting on Flickr photos, Digging stories from our interface, etc.
The idea is that we become your digital life manager…a series of tools that makes it easy to keep up with and interact with what’s going on in your entire social network from one place.
Hope you enjoy the beta…anyone else that wants an invite, shoot me an email to beta@socialthing.com and mention you came from EverydayUX.
Thanks!
This is a great example one of my favorite side effects of having the opportunity to design products during this convergence of various technologies and ideas – RSS, “Web 2.0″, transparent development process, tight feedback loop between creators and users, etc. – have completely changed the process (and pace) of building a product.
The fact that I can sign up for a beta late one night, write a quick blog post about the experience and by the time I wake up the next morning there’s a comment from the creator of the application a) layout out the direction of the product and b) offering invitations for others to join up. How excellent is that?!
Anyway, if you want to check out Socialthing (and I think you should), send an email to beta@socialthing.com and tell them EverydayUX sent you!
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