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SocialThing's usefulness to me is very limited. I don't only visit 6 sites online. Profilactic, even with the bleh UI, is still my overall choice. - Jason Carter

I bet their reasons for preferring SocialThing are contradicted by posting a comment on Digg :) - Bwana ☠

Since I don't have a Socialthing invite, I can't even compare. - bill giltner

Robert, tell them to make Digg post comments to the original article, then they can diss FriendFeed :) - Bwana ☠

Doesn't socialthing require you to give them your id and password for certain sites. Other than the missing api so I can programmatically "share something", I like friendfeed. - Shawn McCollum

I like FriendFeed better at the moment. The UI is cleaner, and quick to visit even on the iPhone over EDGE. I honestly like the second group of conversation that happens at FriendFeed it almost keeps the conversation smaller yet interesting at the moment. - Brandon Titus

SocialThing requires you to give you passwords for the social networks. This is the password anti-pattern, and I strongly disapprove of it. I don't give my passwords for websites out to other websites, any more than I give the keys of my house to anybody who asks. - Tom Morris

I'm still trying to adapt my knowledge gathering process to friendfeed. It's kind of added a duplicate resource to my traditional RSS process. Not sure whether to just use google reader for my friendfeed so I can track what I've read, or use friendfeed directly so I can add comments and feedback more easily. - Phil Ashman

Socialthing lets you post from, and authorizes without giving your password using oauth with sites that support it. I did not give login ID for pownce, flickr and facebook and yet I can post to pownce fetch my friends private facebook photos and reply on pownce to private posts made by friends and download mp3s that are shared on pownce. - Christian Burns

SocialThing is not nearly as rich. But it does auto-refresh nicely. The Digg guys are mesmerized by Ajax not functionality. The winner will be the first site to offer a desktop client like Twitteriffic (or my current fave Twhirl). - Leo Laporte

I like FriendFeed. It fits in well enough with what I do that I am not even going to try other shources. - Deepak Singh

I like both pretty well and currently use both until I decide which I like best, but atm im leaning towards Friendfeed. The biggest difference for me is in how they each handle subscriptions. With Socialthing its just the services you're already subscribed to and only the people you've already friended on those. Which is not bad, I've put my Pownce and Twitter on there so I can have them both on one interface. - Tony, Paradox of FF

Now with Friendfeed, when I add someone, I can see all the services they post to weather I have an account with all those services or not. For example, I just watched a video that Leo Laporte put on Smugmug. I didn't even know what that was before I clicked through to it and watched. I think I like that model better. And if I dont want to see anyones Yelps or Twitters even if I was so inclined, I can tell it not to show me those and leave the rest. - Tony, Paradox of FF

I'm a fan of the simplicity and integration of FriendFeed. I also think people will like the opportunity to kind of reset their friends list for FriendFeed: I only want my closest friends seeing my EVERY action. - Neil Vidyarthi

Whoa you can comment? - Andrew

You're not the type of person to just watch things and I think those who are lurkers, SocialThing may be more towards their liking. You're a pretty active person and there's a lot more activity to participate in on FriendFeed, which I why I think you like it so much. - Corvida

I'm guessing that this statement is attracting comments in all the places that it lands (FriendFeed, SocialThing, Jaiku?, etc.) I bet the opinion of the comments sways toward the service where they are made. - Seek Ground

I'm playing around with both right now (FF & ST) - I'm liking both for different reasons. FF is richer (can pull in more services like Google Reader) and you can comment w/ in FF. ST makes it easier to pull in all your Flickr/Pownce/FB and Twitter friends and tweeting/FB/Pownce updating is a little more straightforward. Will need to play around more to make a full determination of which is best. @astrout - Aaron Strout

I refuse to use Digg. Ever. In my life. - Prokofy Neva

Stop the FriendFeed vs. SocialThing Madness They’re Different http://lifestreamblog.com/stop-th... - Mark Krynsky