Presenting at Innovate!Europe 2007 today is Santa Monica based PROTOMOBL with a product called Fidg’t, that aims to make social network management easier.
The concept is simple: a centralized control point for social networks. Fidg’t brings together contacts from across multiple networks and platforms allowing for the easier leveraging of social networks from the one place.
Fidg’t mobile is also a fully fledged online Instant Messaging platform that provides similar functionality to Trillian and Meebo with support for AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN/ Windows Live Messenger. Media handling on the mobile version includes the ability to post directly to Flickr or stream content from Last.fm.
The Fidg’t Visualization Tool has a wow factor to it. The tech behind it might not be exciting but visually it’s stunning (the video below probably doesn’t do it full justice). It does however require a download. Windows, Mac and Linux are all supported.
Fidg’t’s current support of social networks is limited. Three chat platforms, Flickr and Last.fm means that in its current form it’s not going to appeal to everyone. Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, Eventful and Upcoming support is planned, with the Fidg’t team open to further suggestions.
Tim O’Reilly wrote back in February about Social Network Fatigue and the Missing Web 2.0 Address Book, wanting something more than just a network of networks outfit. Fidg’t doesn’t fully meet that need yet, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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Now all the twits can fidgt.
One quick clarification. Our IM service is on the mobile only at this point.
Thanks Eduardo, corrected.
Another social networking management site. Is it me or is social networking getting way too complex? I thought the point of these sites was to make things simple. Oh silly me.
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I am really looking forward to using this site. As a content provider with many profiles on a number of different social networking sites, this is a dream come true.
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just seen it on the stage .. i like it
the visualizer is great but i am not signing until they get services like facebook or twitter
Yeah, I would have to agree that visualizer is perhaps the greatest asset they got so far - gonna have to see how it all plays out .
wow. visual design is stunning, utility ranks about a 0. Unless your friends are geeks and are tagging all the time this has no usefulness.
This looks really promising. An address book for your social network its brilliant. I can’t wait to see what happens when twitter, delicious and digg are added.
Looks great -
and inspired by DIGG; Labs? Swarm? …
- RBowles
I don’t use social networks, but I’m fascinated by content aggregation services like this. Aren’t there other offerings out there that do the same thing? I have seen a couple mentioned here before, and I’ve come across others else where. Does anyone remember the names of the other social network aggregation services?
I use linkedin and that’s it. Tried to use MySpace but the interface was horrible and very unreliable. Is there anything like LinkedIn for the personal network space? I don’t want stupid blogging features and idiotic band pages, I just want a network where I can keep track of my friends as they move, change email addresses, change phone numbers and so on.
GJ
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The visualizer is cool, but there is a Russian company that has already done it on a web site and not on a resident app. Not a new concept or implementation. I will try to find the site - I came across as I was doing research on “search” - and share here.
I found a couple competitors in my bookmarks: 8hands, SocialSnips (formerly Loopster). I know I’ve seen others though.
Another one is ProfileLinker, which allows you to link your profiles together. They already support closer integration with a number of the social networks.
What about mugshot.org - is this not the same ? i would love to see a comparision of the products available in this space that includes mugshot.
It is almost as if mugshot is ignored because it is open source/red hat.
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Isn’t this a bit like Medi.um?