michael arrington

Will this NEVER end? As good as this aggregator may be, FriendFeed was an aggregator as well and now this service is grabbing info from that and other services. As long as new social aggregation services keep popping, there will continue to be yet another service that needs to be followed. What we need is one place, say a Social Database, that other services can extend and add information to. Each user could have a “profile” in that, with the DB filing in information from existing services and with other services adding information to it. Basically, an extendable friendfeed I guess. From there, aggregators could compete on UI and features. Forget social aggregation… we need a social database service! - Dan Delphin via twhirl

I'd honestly love something like that, Dan. If there was a service or app that could keep me from having to open twhirl windows, open a browser to visit facebook, myspace, etc and open a feedreader to stay updated on what friends are doing - THAT would be killer. The problem, though, is that web sites aren't free to run and they want eyeballs on them so they can monetize with ads. - Shawn Farner

And actually, Digsby does this to an extent - I just don't really like their implementation of it. - Shawn Farner

Thinking about it further, one way to go about solving this problem is through a combination of the OpenID and the data portability initiative. Once all the services are open and there is a unique name that identifies an individual across all (or many services), a social profile could be built from the information from all the different services. This profile wouldn't have to be all located in one services but could just be compiled on the fly, which would be the aggregators job. Eitherway, something needs to be done. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

like Dan Delphin said we will keep seeing more and more of these aggregators of aggregators. Something like OpenID but for social networking services - nouhad

It's the web clipping better than Diigo's or Clipmarks? - Svartling

I tried but I uninstalled it. I was concerned about privacy issues. I just could navigate in other people's links and activity, if I were I hacker I would love it. Without any consent anyone could profile me. May be I am wrong but I could see too much and that concerned me. - Arturo Servin

I'm just waiting for the day when we can update Twitter, Facebook and even orkut via FriendFeed. After all, I can access FriendFeed easily from my iPhone without downloading anything. - darnell

Thinking about it further, one way to go about solving this problem is through a combination of the OpenID and the data portability initiative. Once all the services are open and there is a unique name that identifies an individual across all (or many services), a social profile could be built from the information from all the different services. This profile wouldn't have to be all located in one services but could just be compiled on the fly, which would be the aggregators job. Eitherway, something needs to be done. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

Stupid Twhirl reposted a past comment... Anyway, that's the point of socialthing.com (to update all your different feeds from one place). I wish friendfeed would just add it. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

Dan Delphin - Nice comments, however, some people want different info in different places. I've noticed some of my friends use different Facebook & LinkedIn e-mails. Others have no e-mail at Facebook, but they do have a LinkedIn e-mail. A little has to do with "business persona" versus "personal persona", but more common among my friends is the "Plaxo-business-network persona" (2,000 people) versus the "real-business-contact-or-friend persona" (200 people). - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell Tsai - I think that's one of the great concepts about friendfeed to see certain things, I'd just create a second account. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

So... have we already passed into the YASNA (yet another social networking aggregator) phase? - Jason Kaneshiro

Dan, I'll have to play with the second FF account Idea. Good suggestion. - Mitchell Tsai

There are (1) Unix-style security issues (2) multiple persona issues (3) Identity theft issues...before any OpenID sharing will satisfy me (and probably most of my age 40+ friends). - Mitchell Tsai