Social Networking Hacks
So I’ve been spending a lot of time researching online social networks for my grad project - and I stumbled across a variety of websites that aggregate online social profiles.
These sites allow you to manage multiple social network accounts and keep tabs on what you’re friends are doing online.
Digsby
Digsby helps you organize all your email, instant messaging, and social networking accounts. This is only available for Windows right now.
Fidg’t
Fidg’t aggregates friends in your email address book all into one spot. One of the nifty features about this site is the “Network Visualizer” that allows you to create “tag magnets” to see who in your network is posting items about that subject you’re interested in.
FriendFeed
Keep tabs on what all your friends are doing online with FriendFeed. You simply import your email address book and then FriendFeed scans the web looking for Amazon wish lists, diggs, flickr accounts, linkedIn profiles, blogs, social bookmarks, etc. This should be called SpyFeed.
Fuser
Fuser allows you to manage multiple email/inmail accounts (even within your online social networks). There’s even a social network leaderboard that shows you which of your friends on MySpace and Facebook communicate with you most (for whatever that’s worth).
HelloTxt
HelloTxt allows you to simply - and very easily - update your Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, and MySpace pages with the click of a mouse. You simply type in your message into a text box, and then submit it off to whatever networks you choose. Pretty simple.
Iminta
Iminta is a website that allows you to create unique feeds for your various online activities. For example, you can create a specific feed for your best friend that only aggregates info from your Facebook, Flickr, and MySpace page, but it won’t pull in the articles/websites that your digging, bookmarking, or voting on.
MyLifeBrand
MyLifeBrand allows you to manage up to 8 of your online social networks - like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn - without needing to log into each one. You can also easily gather all email/inmail messages from across all the social networks you belong to. This can save you a lot of time.
Ping.fm
If you’re an online social butterfly and like to post the same information in your Facebook account, Twitter, Tumblr, and/or Wordpress blog - then Ping.fm is for you. You simply add your content once - and Ping.fm will add the same content for you across all those networks.
Socialthing!
Socialthing! is in private beta right now, but it aggregates all the activity from your friends once you import your email contact list. It will grab their flickr accounts, twitter updates, blogs, pownce info, and give it all to you in one nifty looking news feed.
Soup.io
Soup.io helps you keep updated on what all your friends are doing online (sort of like a Facebook news stream), and easily allows you to import all your activities from del.ioio.us, digg, youtube, flickr, tumblr, etc. You can also upload videos and images into your Soup.io page.
Spokeo
This is another “spy” website that allows you to track everything your friends are doing online. It aggregates their StumbleUpon data, digg votes, flickr account, facebook profile, myspace updates, etc.
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:25 am
What a good post. Thanks for explaining these different social network sites. There are so many out there right now, it can be difficult to keep up.
I hadn’t heard of MyLifeBrand, but it sounds like a great idea. I think I’ll explore it further.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:39 am
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April 14th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I hadn’t even heard of many of these. I’m a friendfeed user myself but I might have to check out some others.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Ping.fm really eased the way I update my social status. Funny side-effect is that it does help builing a personal brand when you actively update you status on all these platforms…
Oh btw: FriendFeed launched their Adobe Air application that allows you to further extend your social networking all from one place: AlertThingy
April 15th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I haven’t heard of a lot of these either.
What is your project actually about?
April 15th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Yeah, I just discovered them over the last few weeks. Ben - my project is on analyzing the top 50 social networking sites. It’s a hefty project that’s turning into an eBook. I only have a few weeks left to finish it.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
You talking about sites which allow you to manage multiple social network accounts, but have you come across a social network site which allows you to create and manage multiple profiles in one account ? MOLI is that above 18 only social networking site -members can manage multiple profiles- social, business and family relationships, in one account keeping control over their privacy. You can learn more about MOLI here- http://www.moli.com/
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