SocialThing is a new service that allows you to follow your friends on various social networks. To me it seems like Twitter and FriendFeed had a kid together but forgot to teach it a few things.
The UI is very Twitter-like, which is good--your friend's posts show up in chronological order, unlike FriendFeed which posts everything in clumps based on socnet or user. I find this a little confusing. However, a good way SocialThing is like FF is by allowing you to follow multiple services. FF simply imports feeds, but SocialThing seems to be doing things differently behind the scenes. They only have a handful of services available and if adding them were as easy as just adding feeds, the one problem I have with SocialThing would not exist.
I simply can't follow enough of my friends, so I have to stick with FriendFeed.
Now, both FF and ST allow you to post to any of the networks you have listed, but I like the way ST handles this better than FF. It's just cleaner and more simple.
I'm really hoping they add more services soon. They say delicious, digg, last.fm, MySpace and YouTube are next in line. I've voted for plenty of other sites like Utterz and (ironically) FriendFeed to be added, too. If only they'd just allow RSS feeds (like FriendFeed does) they would cover a LOT of bases.
Mobile post sent by thepete using Utterz.
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