With new social sites cropping up and more information to manage in more places, how do you deal with the social sites you are a member of? Do you visit individually? Or do you manage them using a third party app (web or desktop) to aggregate and connect with your friends/followers? If you could design a service to bring your profiles together what would it do?
Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#2i am currently mostly visiting them once in a while except a few which i visit regularly.
Besides that can any buddy suggest me any desktop application for such <- avoid suggesting flock coz i don't like it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#3I have my own little aggregator running, it's still very much under development though. I'm trying to get away from the 'there goes the neighbourhood' feeling that almost every social network seems to suffer from sooner or later.
I think that there is much more 'value' in an upvote or a downvote of an article / comment than just the 'karma' the way HN,/., digg and so on use it.
Easier said than done though :)
Also, I absolutely suck at design...
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#4What I do: browser bookmarks + regular calendar reminders "should I visit network xyz?". (No email notifications or anything.)
If I could design a service... It would pick the _type_ of new stuff of each network of my choosing and aggregate like a Feedreader. With type I mean for example: new entries on my wall in a given Ning community, but no personal messages and aggregate those together with friend requests on Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#5I use friendbinder (http://friendbinder.com invite code HN) which is my start up
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#6I use friendbinder ( http://friendbinder.com invite code HN) which is my start up
richard,
I have a beta management site (http://www.launchset.com) that could be useful for your site. I'll drop you an email.
Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
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#8http://friendfeed.com/ -- MV
I think friendfeed has almost all the features i would want, except a user base comparable to twitter. Most of the people in my network tend more towards twitter, so FF hasn't proved that useful for me yet.
Otherwise you can aggregate bunch of social network profiles already, and for the ones not supported you can add a custom RSS feed.
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#9i am currently mostly visiting them once in a while except a few which i visit regularly. Besides that can any buddy suggest me any desktop application for such <- avoid suggesting flock coz i don't like it.
There aren't many desktop apps that add everything in one place on the desktop.
For friendfeed, twitter, facebook, flickr you can use feedalizr (http://www.feedalizr.com/).
Some people seem to like Seesmic for FB,Twitter if you're a power user.
Re: Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
#10I browse them individually. I don't really trust giving my credentials to aggregators. I only really use a few so it isn't worth it to have a separate app/site.