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It’s a socialthing!
July 26, 2008 |
I’ve mentioned sites here on this blog that aims at consolidating your own posts on multiple social networking sites into one place as well as sites that makes it easier for you to update all those sites you belong to. The site socialthing.com does the consolidation ‘the other way’ in that it allows you to track all your friends updates at one single site. You could think of it as an RSS feed focused on your friends updates to a number of social sites. Likewise - you set up your own site (you get a dedicates userprofile with URL) where you decide what information you want to push out.
The sites that can be hooked in to socialthing appears to be growing rapidly and you can already connect/feed from the more usual suspects such as Brightkite, Plurk, Twitter and more.
Socialthing also supports some updates that may be a bit more surprising - such as keeping track of your friends current scores in Guitar Hero 
To quote the site:
“just integrate your console (XBOX360, PS3 or Wii) into the Guitar Hero site, then tell us your User ID and we’ll publish how well you’ve been doing lately on your tunes. Stats include star rating, percentage, oh, and what song you played in the first place.
I was personally really excited (sad but true) when I read that socialthing support Fluidapp and if you for some reason (shame on you) don’t know what fluidapp is I may just have to dedicate a specil blog entry to talk just about that site
Socialthing is still in beta (sometimes it seems as if every site I belong to is in some perpetual state of beta-testing (Hi Twitter!) but you can request a userid on their main page and if you’re in luck you may have your very own account setup in just a few days.
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I am impressed with the services of socialthing.com ,it seems to be better than the other networking sites.
What social networking sites do you like best?