Social Bits

Some random bits from the social networking scene that caught my attention recently.

My favorite social aggregator, Socialthing, has announced that they’ll be dropping support for their current product. They’re not pulling the plug on it until their next “big thing” launches, but no more updates or patches as APIs change in the future. Oh, and they have a new logo…

I have to confess that I’m a bit bummed.

I briefly considered giving Friendfeed another shot, but I just can’t. With Friendfeed, you follow other users of Friendfeed and they link all their other social accounts to it. What that means if there are folks I like on Twitter that aren’t using Friendfeed… I won’t see them on FF.

Now, I can manually make “imaginary friends” of them though – and I once thought that was a brilliant feature. I hate it now, just means I have to manage a list of users both on twitter and on Friendfeed. Add on on twitter, have to remember to add them on FF. Drop them on one, have to drop on the other. Nope, not doing that.

Moving along…

I’ve been experimenting with TwitterGadget on iGoogle this week. It has potential. It’s not any sort of aggregator, but I do like it as a twitter client and it integrates nicely into iGoogle. They have a nifty way of installing themselves into Gmail as well, but I’m avoiding that one. I don’t need to see my twitter client that often!

Speaking of Facebook… well, now we are… did you catch that they released their own Adobe Air application this week? Now you can get the Facebook stream without visiting Facebook. I haven’t tried it yet (right now I’m a bit “down” on Air Apps for some reason) but some initial reviews seem positive.

Possibly Related posts:

1. Social Aggregating
2. Social Bankruptcy?
3. Sorry Twitter But It’s You, Not Me.
4. FriendFeed Imaginary Friends
5. OK Twitter, Maybe it WAS Me Too…