HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Posterous http://mashable.com/2009/09/06/posterous-guide/ HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Posterous
Whether you need a little more space to create a lifestream that serves as a compliment to your Twitter presence, or you’re looking to totally replace your existing personal or group blog, Posterous makes the transition and posting process dead simple.
The Posterous possibilities are endless, and the best part is it that takes very little effort to maintain your site and attract a subscriber base.
Wink ... People Search ... plus http://wink.com/p/shamblesguru Wink ... People Search
Wink is a people search engine that makes it easy to find and connect with people online. Wink.com is the largest online people search with more than 200 million people profiles from across the Web, including social networks and other online communities.
You can also use Wink to enable you to be found on the Wink search engine and other traditional search engines. By creating a profile on Wink, you can manage your web presence. Wink allows you to claim and add various places where you are online, and provides you an interface to manage all of them in one place. This gives you the power to determine what people know about you and where you are on the web.
In addition you can create an account at Wink and link to all your social media sites ... so becomes a social aggregator.
Chimp http://chi.mp// Chi.mp gives you your own domain and Web site – your social hub. With chi.mp, you can bring together the many pieces of your digital life - your content, your contacts – to create “Centralized You”. And you control “who sees what”.
Bring in the content from your sites and services from across the Web. Create your own original content. Mix it. Mash it. Use Personas to create different versions of you and your content. Push it. Publish it.
Sweetcron http://www.sweetcron.com/ Sweetcron
Lifestream Blog Software
Self Hosted
Keep all your data safely on your own server and run Sweetcron via your own domain.
The Nambu Network http://www.nambu.com/ The Nambu Network is creating the best possible social messaging experience: seemlessly integrated with a superior look and feel.
Social Messaging Streamlined.
Nambu download for Apple OS X
Youmeo - The Social Aggregator (You and Me Online) http://www.youmeo.com Youmeo - The Social Aggregator (You and Me Online)
Social Network Aggregator on the web, with a younger target market.
Skimmer http://www.fallon.com/skimmer Skimmer is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities.
It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.
Social Media Aggregator ... life streaming
PixelPipe ... content distribution gateway http://pixelpipe.com PixelPipe ... not really a Social Aggregator ... but maybe just the opposite ... being able to push out social media to social sites from one location
What is certain is that this does have the potential to save you time.
Pixelpipe is a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 60 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage.
We provide a number of mobile & desktop applications for users, liberating their content and sharing their life.
Lifestreaming With AlertThingy 3 http://alertthingy.com/ Lifestreaming With AlertThingy 3
Similar to TweetDeck (#1 on this list), you can expand the program to see multiple lists of information such as your Twitter feed, a Twitter search, plus your Facebook news feed. You can update all of these services right from AlertThingy as well.
AlertThingy v3 brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Plus send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. With v3 AlertThingy makes it faster and easier to manage the online you. Plus you get the coolest looking RSS reader on the interweb.
Multiply http://multiply.com Multiply is your one place for doing more with your media: we take your photos, videos and blog posts to the next level. Share safely. Store permanently. Create beautiful products. There's no better home for everything that matters to you.
Our drag-and-drop uploading is great for a quick post, but the AutoUploader is the easiest way to get your photos and videos onto Multiply. Set it. Forget it. And never wait for an upload again.
Share everything...your blog, videos, photos and more, in one place: your Multiply site. Get your own web address. Choose a professional theme. Change the colors. Make it yours.
Multiply's powerful, flexible "Inbox" not only lets your friends and family know when you've posted something new, but also keeps them updated when replies are added. This keeps everyone in the loop, which keeps the discussion flowing.
thisMoment (Life Streaming) http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/lifestreaming-this-moment/ Lifestreaming Gets Thorough With "thisMoment" "Lifestreaming - the concept of sharing thoughts, links, moments, photos, audio and video clips from your life with your friends - is a crowded space.
From Profilactic to FriendFeed, we’ve seen a lot of lifestreaming apps, and not all of them have made it big.
Enter thisMoment, a new lifestreaming application currently in private beta. It lets you create a slideshow (called a “moment”) containing different kinds of media - links, text, images, audio and video clips - which, ideally, fully captures an important moment in your life." www.thismoment.com
SocialAddict http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2008/06/23/socialaddict SocialAddict for Desktop
What SocialAddict does is loads the mobile or iPhone version of each site for easy access. Again, I didn’t tie into any APIs or do massive re-construction. These are all previously available applications that have been tied together to make it quick and easy to go from one to the next.
Swurl http://www.swurl.com/ Swurl
Swurl is a place to bring all the things you do online together to share in a blog-like format.
Effortless lifestream
Brings all your web content together into a blog format.
Swurl supports your existing blog, pictures, links, videos, and more.
Power :Social Network Aggregator http://power.com/ Power
Can you imagine reading your Orkut, Facebook and MySpace messages in just one place? Have you ever thought about browsing Orkut while chatting with friends on MSN? What about sending messages to all your friends with just one click? Now you can easily do all those things through www.power.com. Enjoy this new experience and improve your Internet experience.
Power.com is the world’s leading Social Inter-Networking company in the world with 5 million registered users. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Power.com is a privately held company with 70 people. Power.com has additional offices in San Francisco, California and Hyderabad, India.
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed http://mashable.com/2008/12/05/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-friendfeed/ HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed "FriendFeed is a social media feed aggregator that makes it easy to follow many different individuals’ various social activities on the Web all in one convenient place, instead of jumping from service to service (and having to create new accounts ad infinitum!) to see what the people you’re most interested in are doing.
Let’s look at a few tips for both beginning and more advanced FriendFeed users that can help you make this service as useful as possible."
NutShellMail http://nutshellmail.com/ This app organizes and consolidates all your email accounts, plus all your social networking accounts.
ShareThis http://sharethis.com/ ShareThis believes that sharing should be for everyone.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the growing number of web sites and social web communities. ShareThis lets you instantly access all of your profiles, blogs, friends, and contacts for easy sharing and updating. We think users should be in control of their online world.
feedalizr http://www.feedalizr.com/ feedalizr
... n exciting release of a desktop application that brings your Friendfeed right to your desktop, using the latest technology from Abode - Adobe AIR.
PeopleBrowsr http://peoplebrowsr.com/ PeopleBrowsr is a simple visual dashboard that adds more power to Twitter, your other online identities and those of your friends.
Storytlr (Life Streaming) http://storytlr.com/ Import your web 2.0 life
Pick your sources and they will appear as a lifestream directly on your site.
Tell your stories in a new way
Photo albums are old school! Pick your sources, start and end date and your story is good to go. If necessary you can tweak it for a better flow.
FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/ The goal of FriendFeed is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information.
By using an automated, crawl-based approach to finding the content you find interesting, our hope is that your FriendFeed experience will be completely “maintenance free” — you can help your friends and family discover what you’re sharing without changing the way you already use your favorite web-based products.
FriendFeed automatically picks up the stuff you share on over 40 web sites, like YouTube and Flickr.
See the web pages, videos, photos, and music your friends are sharing from around the web.
NutShellMail http://mashable.com/2008/10/09/nutshellmail/ Get All Your Social Network Messages and Emails with NutShellMail "NutShellMail appears like just another email and social network message aggregator similar to Fuser, but there’s a critical distinction to be made.
NutShellMail will not get blocked by your company’s firewall which means you can now get all of your emails and messages from all of your personal email accounts as well as your MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn social networking accounts."
Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed http://mashable.com/2008/09/04/friendfeed-web-apps/ Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed
A plethora of tools — addons, scripts, Web apps — have emerged using the FriendFeed API. Here is a list of the top 10 Web applications that you can check out to get the most out of the service.
SocialU http://www.socialu.com/ SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays all of your social networks in their own tabs. You can undock networks and tabs if you want.
Socialu rewards members for being active in the community by giving social dollars (SD) whenever someone makes comments, adds friends, and so on. These social dollars can then be used to purchase virtual versions of real products from well-known brands in the Marketplace.
Socialthing http://socialthing.com/ See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you're missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!
Socialthing makes it easy to see all the things your friends are doing. It's a news feed for every site that you use in one place.
It's a place to see "what's up" in your digital life, and figure out where to go to from there...
Frienderati http://frienderati.alltop.com/ Frienderati ... simple list of the latest five entries from the most popular FriendFeed users.
Secondbrain http://secondbrain.com/ Use your Secondbrain content management tools to collect, organize, search and share all your web content in a single library.
Our mission is to help people manage their content online and create the biggest library of user generated content in the world. Secondbrain is social, collaborative, available, unlimited, easy to use, cloud backup, ads collective value and builds online identity.
People use various internet services to create content libraries across the Web. Secondbrain has been designed to aggregate this knowledge and data into the most powerful personal content platform imaginable. Secondbrain utilizes cutting edge technology to enhance the management, socialization and personalization of online content.
Minggl is a social interaction manager / Toolbar http://minggl.com/ Minggl is a social interaction manager / toolbar
The Minggl toolbar makes it easy to manage information, communication, and navigation across social networks. Minggl...from anywhere on the web.
Consolidate friends from across sites into your sidebar
Automatically log into all your profiles
Update status on multiple sites from one place
Get notifications of mail, comments, and friend activity no matter where you are on the web
Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/ Spokeo searches your friends' blogs and photos across 22 social networks so you don't have to visit hundreds of websites one by one.
Spokeo leverages your existing social network and email relationships to quickly and easily grab your friends' content across the web. Our simple email and friend import features help you connect with your friends immediately - no tedious setup required.
20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles http://mashable.com/2007/07/17/social-network-aggregators/ 20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles .. listed/reviewed at Mashable
Social network aggregators is a relatively new breed of applications which try to consolidate all your various social networking profiles into one, with varying success.
Let’s check out 20 biggest competitors in this field.
A Look at Friendfeed http://www.doshdosh.com/benefits-of-social-lifestreaming-and-friendfeed/ The Benefits of Social Media Aggregators and Lifestreaming: A Look at Friendfeed
Social media aggregators are web sites which amass what you do on social networks or websites and centralize it all in one location.
These aggregators enable lifestreaming, which is a simply the publication and sharing of your daily activities in continuous sessions. These social lifestreams allow you to keep track of what your friends or other people are doing online.
In other words, they are tools you can use to observe the activity of others on various social sites or allow others to follow what you’re doing all around the web.
One of the most popular social aggregators is called Friendfeed and it appears to be the most widely used service amongst many other lifestreaming services.
Review of social aggregators / lifestreaming services http://www.fabricoffolly.com/2008/03/review-of-social-aggregators.html Review of social aggregators / lifestreaming services
The difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator (a.k.a. lifestreaming services). Below is a review of 15 products currently in this space. I've tried to keep the focus on aggregators, rather than services which have more of an emphasis on inputting new content (e.g. microblogging platforms such as Tumblr or Jaiku) although the lines are clearly blurred.
Social network aggregation (at Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_aggregation Social network aggregation
Social network aggregation refers to the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as MySpace or Facebook. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile.
Various aggregation services provide tools or widgets to allow users to consolidate messages, track friends, combine bookmarks, search across multiple social networking sites, read rss feeds for multiple social networks, see when their name is mentioned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface, provide "lifestreams", etc