Comments on fabric of folly: Review of social aggregators / lifestreaming servi...

Interesting review, I think you included all the m...

2008-04-29T12:41:00.000Z

Interesting review, I think you included all the main lifestream-sites out there. Perhaps something could be added (in a future article) about self-hosted and home-built systems? My guess is that quite a lot of people savvy enough to implement a lifestream would tend to go the self-hosted way, but I may be mistaken.

On an unrelated note, have you still got an invite left for socialthing? I'd love to get one if at all possible.

Best regards

funDiva Christy, your signup on Profilactic went t...

2008-04-17T18:28:00.000Z

funDiva Christy, your signup on Profilactic went through fine. I just checked our DB. What problems are you having?

Awesome detailed review of all the aggregators!Jer...

2008-04-14T13:55:00.000Z

Awesome detailed review of all the aggregators!

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com

I find mybloglog too doing pretty good job. Any re...

2008-03-28T13:32:00.000Z

I find mybloglog too doing pretty good job. Any review from your side?

Might you consider reviewing the new Flavor of Lov...

2008-03-24T14:56:00.000Z

Might you consider reviewing the new Flavor of Love facebook application?

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=8556452643

- Joe Raciti

(I work for the company that developed the application.)

Excellent post - thanks for the comprehensiveness....

2008-03-21T02:13:00.000Z

Excellent post - thanks for the comprehensiveness. If you have a socialthing invite left, I'd love one. phatmommy@gmail.com

@zoltandragon - still have invites - ping me your ...

2008-03-15T20:06:00.000Z

@zoltandragon - still have invites - ping me your email address (fabricoffolly on twitter or @gmail.com)

Thank you for this informative and useful review. ...

2008-03-15T17:27:00.000Z

Thank you for this informative and useful review. Also, if you still have some, I would love to have an invite to SocialThing :)

Hey Andrew, we do offer filtering of friends' cont...

2008-03-14T11:10:00.000Z

Hey Andrew, we do offer filtering of friends' content by person at source.

On the Friends' mashup page, you can select any friend and see only their content.

If you go to that person's own mashup, you can filter by each of the sites that they use.

If you had other filtering in mind, please shoot me a note at feedback at profilactic dot com.

Thanks for the great review. Do you know of http:/...

2008-03-14T06:53:00.000Z

Thanks for the great review.

Do you know of http://www.spokeo.com/ ? The service seems to do a good job of finding your friends on different sites if you import your address book. I find the friend grouping feature a bit difficult to use but still useful.

As for Profilactic - the service I prefer for creating a mashup of my own content - it would be nice if they offered filtering of friend's content by friend and content source.

Tad Chef, To be completely honest, we kind of "bor...

2008-03-13T18:13:00.000Z

Tad Chef, To be completely honest, we kind of "borrowed" the language for our terms of use from another site.

We don't want to own your content. In fact, I have removed that section from our terms.

As far as SU is concerned, we added support for them a long time ago. As far I know, they didn't have RSS then. If they do now, we will definitely add them.

Profilactic sadly owns all of your content: "Our s...

2008-03-13T17:21:00.000Z

Profilactic sadly owns all of your content:

"Our sites include a combination of content that we create and that our users create. All materials published on our sites, including, but not limited to, written content, photographs, graphics, images, illustrations, marks, logos, sound or video clips, and Flash animation, are protected by our copyrights. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or in any way exploit any of the materials or content on our sites in whole or in part."

Also it does not support StumbleUpon stating that SU does not support RSS which is not true.

Thanks for the comments guys. Todd & Scott - I sti...

2008-03-13T14:04:00.000Z

Thanks for the comments guys. Todd & Scott - I still have invites if you want to ping me your email address (fabricoffolly on twitter or @gmail.com)

You wrote a very extensive review of this particul...

2008-03-13T13:19:00.000Z

You wrote a very extensive review of this particular corner of the web world, and is thus very helpful. When I was looking for a lifestreaming aggregator I only saw about half of these.

I chose Second|Brain because, in addition to working, I liked the way one can organize the materials going into the service. It imports del.icio.us tags so you have a built in tag cloud. It knows about content types so you can filter the list you are looking at by type. It also has collections that let you bundle together content into related materials.

As the content grows over time this kind of organization is essential if you want to get back to what you have put into the system.

invite to social thing would be cool, if still hav...

2008-03-13T10:50:00.000Z

invite to social thing would be cool, if still have spares. Good overview by the way. I have been trying to do something similar for about 2 months witout getting around to it.

Nice survey of the landscape. Seems that there are...

2008-03-13T03:17:00.000Z

Nice survey of the landscape. Seems that there are a few too many of these for them all to survive for very long.

If you still have any of those invites to socialthing, I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks!

Excellent review of the lifestreaming sites! This ...

2008-03-13T00:01:00.000Z

Excellent review of the lifestreaming sites! This saves me the time of posting a review that probably would have looked very similar.

I am probably the only Asian to comment first in h...

2008-03-12T22:29:00.000Z

I am probably the only Asian to comment first in here and I just want to say thanks for smorty71 for the tweet. If not for that tweet I wouldn't know other sites. This time I guess you are right about the difficulty of having too many accounts (facebook and alike) because you have to track each one. To be honest it is my first time to hear about lifestreaming on twitter..looks fun..and will probably try soon but I have to read more articles like this to help me.

Thanks for the article :-)

@matt galligan and @sMoRTy71 - no worries - just k...

2008-03-12T21:53:00.000Z

@matt galligan and @sMoRTy71 - no worries - just keep making good products and I'll keep being nice about them :)

Dan, thank you for the kind words about Profilacti...

2008-03-12T21:34:00.000Z

Dan, thank you for the kind words about Profilactic. We really appreciate it. Being #1 on the list really means a lot to us.

Thanks Katrina - twitter me (@fabricoffolly) your ...

2008-03-12T20:53:00.000Z

Thanks Katrina - twitter me (@fabricoffolly) your email address and I'll ping you an invite

Awesome article; thank you very much for the insig...

2008-03-12T18:52:00.000Z

Awesome article; thank you very much for the insightful reviews. I would love an invite to SocialThing! It seemed to be all the rage at this year's SXSW.

cheers,
~KJP

Thank you SO much for such kind words! We're real...

2008-03-12T09:42:00.000Z

Thank you SO much for such kind words! We're really working hard at getting you a lot more services to play with. Our biggest hurdle was the initial technology, so now that we've got that up and running, expect some big things at a fast pace from us VERY soon!

Glad to have you as a user!