Posts Tagged with ‘aggregators’

There’s a nice little announcement from the blog comments aggregating service BackType that I thought is worth mentioning here as I know that many of the Profy readers have already grown accustomed to using BackType to track comments on the topics they are interested in or from the people they want to hear opinions from.
Basically BackType serves as an aggregator of comments from a variety of blogs - both standalone and published on multiple blogging platforms - for every commentator [...]

I know that for many of my online friends socialmedian has already become THE place to share and discover news and various thought-provoking articles. I can’t say that I myself am particularly active on the service yet I like what I see every time I visit. But what I enjoy the most about socialmedian is how they handle product management and development and rolling out updates to the service basically every week (judging by my inbox where I get emails [...]

I have recently received an invitation to try out the relatively new lifestreaming aggregator Strands and since lifestreaming is one of the hottest trends these days I wanted to give it a try and share my thoughts here for anyone who may be considering trying another lifestreaming service or looking for strong alternatives to FriendFeed. My personal impression is that Strands is definitely a strong alternative even now when it is in invite-only beta testing stage.
In general Strands offers all [...]

I have just received an announcement from creators of Lifestream.fm that the service is out of private beta now with tons of new features worth trying out for everyone keeping track of the current trends in lifestreaming. Lifestream.fm was acquired by German social bookmarking service Mister Wong back in April and since then the team has been busy adding new functionality to the service staying in the private beta. And while the majority of features on Lifestream.fm are exactly what [...]

We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.
Today we [...]

Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the news from. NewsCred positions itself as a digital newspaper collecting content from various mainstream and new media outlets.
Any visitor can consume news here even without registration but if you want to add some credibility to your favorite news sources you will have to create an account here. And this credibility that is based on votes from [...]

Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the background details about how the startup made its first steps and finally reached this acquisition.
SocialThing is a startup that serves as an aggregator for various online services (not many of them for now with a strange omission of regular RSS feeds). SocialThing is obviously one of the competitors to Friendfeed but even after some grudge on the launch date [...]

Today SecondBrain announces a number of new services added to its lifestream aggregator and expected funding. For those of you uninitiated, the Norwegian startup is a lifestream aggregator that not only aggregates content from supported services but also allows user to create tag-based collections of content based on topics of their choice.
Today’s announcement includes addition of a total of 10 new services, including FriendFeed, Facebook, Diigo, Reddit, Mixx, and Qik. My concern is that at least addition of FriendFeed may [...]

I have just been told by one of our readers that we underestimate one current trend in Web 2.0. He mentioned that many people now have their online presence scattered around the web in blogs, photo and video sharing sites, social networks, etc. And so new services are created that are intended to gather all this content in one place - while Profy rarely pays attention to this trend.
I would not really agree to it: we have mentioned “online profiles [...]