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Re: How many services do we need?

Alex Hammer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:24:31 -0000

Many services are evolving so quickly, that it is difficult to determine sometimes who the winners and losers may eventually be, which makes it difficult to determine which to keep and which to jettison.

Re: How many services do we need?

Brian Herbert — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:52:29 -0000

Alan, that's what I like about Profilactic. The first think I do every morning is read my Profilactic email that digests everything my friends have done on the web the day before. Even though I'm trying to keep up with everything as it happens, I tend to miss things here and there.

Re: How many services do we need?

polou/midorie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:18:39 -0000

I am groggy (lol)already keeping multiple pages of social networking pages for my work and social life. Oh also forgot family too. Well, I just hope there will be a few services that will integrate to make one's life a lot easier. Thanks for the brief here.

Re: How many services do we need?

alan p — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:45:08 -0000

What I like about FriendFeed is I can aggregate all the stuff and pump it to email daily so I never need to go near the whole webmenagerie again - including FriendFeed ;-0

Re: How many services do we need?

Robert Scoble — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:44:34 -0000

Tom: totally agree!

Re: How many services do we need?

Tom Nixon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:12:17 -0000

A large number of services is fine. It's the maintainance of multiple profile pages and lists of friends that's the pain. So, what we need is data portability.

Re: How many services do we need?

Marcin Grodzicki — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:05:30 -0000

It just shows how much time do we waste on the net. I know that we do some serious productivity online these days, but most of the products are not created in those services. Most of them are pure time wasters (You add to that waste by creating those super important posts I just have to read. And those that are productive (mail, project management, calendaring, collaboration) are not included in services like friendfeed.
Of course everything YOU do on the net is productive. Lucky bastard.

Re: How many services do we need?

Andy Gadiel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:55:40 -0000

The new personal aggregators are starting to look a lot like Google Reader.

If all the services publish RSS, then Reader can conquer. Great sharing, sending and subscribing, all in one easy place.

If sites have specialized styles in their feeds, then maybe Google can adapt to certain premium site partners, or they'll likely publish a Google Lifestreaming API xml standard for sites sometime soon.

I agree though, in order for one of these services to break out beyond the rest they really need to take a step back and figure out what real world problem they're solving, instead of just being the next cool code tool...which is also fun too.

Re: How many services do we need?

mike3k — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:01:33 -0000

One problem with all of these personal aggregators is duplication of items.

I use Tumblr to aggregate my blog posts, del.icio.us saved items, dugg items, youtube favorites, and newsgator clippings. I also have del.iciou.us post daily links to my blog. Friendfeed will show multiple copies of the same item from several of those sources.

Re: How many services do we need?

Scabr — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:56:58 -0000

I need about 10 services in active using