the dj paine show

the battle of the digital life aggregators

djp725/4/2008

over a year ago Jolane and i were shooting the breeze about how to have a successful internet service. i said the no brain winner would be a website service that collates and aggregates all the social platforms into one easy interface. somewhere you could see everything and even update status’ from the same interface… Jolane said it was a stupid idea and so i had to just sit and wait for some other genius to build it.
now there are {in my opinion} three services fighting for my affection:
profilactic
social thing
friend feed
let’s take a closer look:

1} Profilactic

i heard about the horribly named profilactic from cnet’s “the real deal” podcast and i dig it alot. basically you sign up and you can choose from 170+ online services that you use – put in your details for the services you want to share, choose if it’s in your mash up, and bam. done. it is very cool and the lay out is nice, also the attitude of the guys behind it is hip. you can jump onto my profile and see a “mash up” of everything i’m doing here: my profilactic mashup

2} Social Thing

got a beta invite to this new service, it allows you to add facebook, flickr, pownce, twitter, vimeo etc, not many services, {no one can touch profilactic’s 170 services} and then when i sign in i can see everything i have online on those services… no profile pages {yet} what it does well is allow me to post a single status update on social thing and it pushes it out to the services you have on there that allow status updates. that is cool.

3} Friend Feed

and last we have the much hyped friend feed- these guys have somehow got all the tech geek hipsters on board and there is a lot of rah rah about these guys. i sorta don’t get it yet {as to why people are raving about them} you can add up to 35 popular online services… as far as why i think people are loving it is because you can easily find and add friends {so it’s almost it’s own social platform} and {probably} the biggest reason, you can comment on anything that comes up in the stream from anyone- the comments appear on friend feed. that is a brilliant idea. so friend feed is almost it’s own platform…
my friend feed profile

ok, so at this early stage of evaluation here is where i’m at:
i want profilactic’s massive choice of services and their funky attitude, i want social thing’s great status push & their good customer service and i want friend feed’s popularity and commenting.

i’ll keep messing around with them and keep you informed, i have 2 social thing invites left, so…

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