SocialThing!’s secret sauce isn’t friending, it’s finding
March 24, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. My own take, which isn’t all that awe inspiring, but I do fall into the “FriendFeed makes my info overload worse” camp.
In a guest post on Read/Write Web, Muhammad Saleem interviews SocialThing! CEO Matt Galligan and we get some interesting insights into the differences, as Matt sees it, between FriendFeed and SocialThing!:
Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb’s post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. I signed up for FriendFeed when it first came out and more recently I was lucky enough to get a private beta invite for Socialthing! as well. I sat down with Socialthing! founder and CEO Matt Galligan, to get a little insight into the differences and similarities between the two products. Source: Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan – ReadWriteWeb
While Matt acknowledges the similarities between SocialThing! and FriendFeed, he points out how it just works to pull things together. When I added Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter to my account on SocialThing! all the friends I had in those places, became a part of my feed. No need to “add friends” … I really liked that.
Of course FriendFeed does have its place. Extending the conversation into other areas (which I’m not convinced is a good thing). Though from a comment on my post, it might seem that the folks at CoComment are looking at a solution to the problem.
Regardless of where you stand on these new social aggregators, this is a great interview.
And yes, I have one, just one, invite to SocialThing!.
