Comments on: Ex-CNETer Launches Iminta

By: Wones

Wones — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:08:19 +0000

PeopleSearches.com

Here’s their Blog:
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Here’s their Feed:
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By: YourWebLocator » Blog Archive » PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:35:53 +0000

[...] 5px; float: right;”> Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a [...]

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:49:12 +0000

[...] content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a [...]

By: Blog Feeds « Cherryapoc’s Weblog

Blog Feeds « Cherryapoc’s Weblog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:45:20 +0000

[...] What this means: in your friends news feed, you may start to see more content from Flickr, Twitter, Digg and other third party services. This competes directly with what a number of startups are doing – namely FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse and the more recently launched Iminta. [...]

By: Web RoundUp: Feb 27, 2008: RolleBase, Pownce, Zoho Writers, Facebook and more : unitedBIT

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:23:42 +0000

[...] Another Way to Lifestream Iminta is what I’m in to. Iminta relies on its users to generate the content of the site, like FriendFeed. Iminta seems to function on the same principals with FriendFeed, i,e. an online discussion forum where you select the folks whose posts you see, with more drill-down options. Instead of opening up to a vanilla white screen with links and text and comments, you open up into your own lifestream. You have three tabbed options:(i) public stream; (ii) comment feed; (iii) streams filtered by different media types. These function are very useful, comments Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins of Mashable! In addition, Iminta can tract a larger number of services than FriendFeed. Out of the gate, the raw number of services Iminta can track is actually 26, while that of FriendFeed is 28 (and seems to focus more on places where you generate the content). In this department, though, Iminta has a significant advantage over FriendFeed, presently. With Iminta, though, you can piggyback just about any RSS based content in through the Blog Content feature. Source: Mashable!. Read more (w/o much more info.) at Wired; Webware or at TechCrunch. [...]

By: New Lifestreaming Service Iminta | Lifestream Blog

New Lifestreaming Service Iminta | Lifestream Blog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:15:46 +0000

[...] read over at TechCrunch about a new Lifestreaming service called Iminta that just went into private beta. This one was [...]

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Betas... Lunarr & Iminta - Surpass Web Hosting Forums — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:51:59 +0000

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By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:05:32 +0000

I’ve been using Iminta for a couple months now. My preferred feature is the daily email digest. I open the email when I want to take a break and I catch up on a close circle of friend’s activities. I don’t miss twitters and flickr postings and I can catch up all at once, in my in box. This way sharing doesn’t control me. I control it.

In fact I’ve started use del.icio.us, digg again and favorting youtube video and google reader items as I know that friends will see them without having to go to those services and see my activities (because most people never do)

I’ve been using readr.com and enjoy that too with a whole different set of contacts.

One concern I have is if I’m pressured to start following too many people will I have to start skimming entries just as I do as my primary sharing sites? Also in the direction of information overload, these services could start letting you follow anyone of your choice, even if they are not using the service themselves, which I think would be popular.

Anyway, I’m almost positive aggregators like these will be used by everyone in a couple years. Keep up the good work.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:43:34 +0000

While a step in the right direction, my sense is that this isn’t the way managing social activity streams will be handled. I agree with Kent.

As to the other comments, I never thought I’d see the day when a few commenters thought TC was in cahoots with CNET. Get out the tin foil hats.

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:34:36 +0000

I have been an iminta user for a while and I really find it useful for keeping up with my close friends and finding interesting stuff. I am only following a few people but they are good friends so i want to know what they are looking at. I am not sure how well it would work when it gets like twitter and people have hundreds or thousands of followers because each person can generate a lot of content. So far though, the daily update emails of my friends activity is one of the emails I most enjoy reading in the morning.

Anyway, whereas I am not sure about their business model or what this says about the web 2.0 bubble or social networks or whether techcrunch favors ex-cnet people, I think this is a handy application that you should check out. I should add that I am not affiliated with iminta in any way other than having gotten an invite to try the service through a friend.

By: RVK

RVK — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Well: it strikes me that this particular concept, Iminta, is nothing radical. That’s fine – what was radical about making a new search engine when Google first appeared? Or an OS when Microsoft made DOS?

The bigger problem is the idea that anyone will invest the time and effort in enough social networks to make an aggregator worthwhile. It only simplifies things after-the-fact – you still have to make the effort with all these sites, and most people who are not immersed in Web2.0 hype just don’t.

These insiders seem to be creating sites for each other more than for the market, and that’s not going to lead to profit.

By: people don't like Techcrunch

people don't like Techcrunch — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:11:03 +0000

I can’t believe this. Techcrunch claim themselves professional. Yeah right!!!
Some Techcrunch news have spam. Is there techcrunch spam blocker. You know. Skip articles or block some Techcrunch articles.

I want to block some Arrington, Erick, etc news. They are not seeing things right. They just keep crossing the line. They keep putting bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, and some good guy news.

I want blocking/filtering techcrunch stuff. I don’t always aggree with their option, ideas, and society outlaw. Sometimes, they do get into trouble.

You know… Google Jet.

By: @$don (im #7)

@$don (im #7) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:56:17 +0000

i agree.. probably because I don’t have a VC behind the kind of stuff I work on, but it’s easy to make money when people throw millions at you.. the tough (and more creative in my opinion) start ups are the ones started because a developer see’s a need that a large corporation is too bureaucratic to fill.. if i had a few million from sequoia or whomever, i don’t think it’d be too difficult to create some web app that met a need and was commercially viable..

@9 ya.. i think a focus on smaller ideas would be a good idea. TC is much more of a tech news blog now, than aything to do with web startups

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:38:59 +0000

“I always like the non-funded startups.”

All startups should be non-funded.

By: Robert Yeager

Robert Yeager — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:38:27 +0000

You know a market space has reached saturation and is past the peak of its bubble when aggregators are all that are left to cover.

Wake me up when you have something interesting to report.

By: Jenkins

Jenkins — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:18:05 +0000

The bigger problem other than Michael not understanding journalistic ethics is their lack of ability to call them right.

By: aaa

aaa — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:10:40 +0000

have to agree with #7.

Perhaps you guys at techcrunch could have 2 blogs ?? one for fully funded largesk companies that are either funded by vc’s or are ran by former google, yahoo , ms, facebook , etc etc connected people.

and the other blog for new startups. I may be wrong but when I first started reading techcrunch when it first launched it was mostly unknown startups and revealing the gems. Now it seems to be mainly large companies.

Apart from the catering to your audience that 2 blogs would have , it would also generate additional income for you .

Mike and Co , give it a thought ? perhaps it just techcrunch is now too large ? , thats one of the things I like about techcrunch uk and what used to be vecosys/blog nation in that they came up with alot of smal/ newly launched startup[s.

thanks

By: siftee

siftee — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:45 +0000

I’m really sick of hearing about all these guys connected to one company, or another, getting jobs here on TC. We all know how valuable a job at TC is, and this is obviously jealousy speaking here, but it seems the reviews are 95% of the time about some guy connected to CNET or Google or MS who came out with this revolutionary job that is exactly the same as 8 other jobs out there, but because he is who he is, or has a press embargo agreement with TC, they get this kind of coverage.

I’ll always use TC to keep aware of what’s going on in the 2.0 space, but I think you guys really need to diversify and give me a job. I can’t even buy a fucking sandwhich. Im getting pretty hunbgry… at least in my opinion

By: Kent Brewster

Kent Brewster — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:47:09 +0000

I’m not sure Iminta really gets it; like other services, they seem to want to be the dashboard on top of all your social networks, and add very little value of their own.

Surprised to see MyBlogLog going unmentioned on your list; they’ve had a who-are-you-on-all-those-other-services section running for a long time, and have opened it up through their API. See here:

http://kentbrew...-mybloglog-api/

… for a working prototype.

By: it's not what you know, it's who you know

it's not what you know, it's who you know — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:09:46 +0000

I’m really sick of hearing about all these guys connected to one company, or another, getting reviews here on TC. We all know how valuable a review on TC is, and this is obviously jealousy speaking here, but it seems the reviews are 95% of the time about some venture backed social-network-clone, or some guy connected to CNET or Google or MS who came out with this revolutionary idea that is exactly the same as 8 other networks out there, but because he is who he is, or has a press embargo agreement with TC, they get this kind of coverage.

I’ll always use TC to keep aware of what’s going on in the 2.0 space, but I think you guys really need to diversify the kind of companies and ideas you blog/write about. It’s getting pretty redundant.. at least in my opinion

By: siftee

siftee — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:08:19 +0000

still no jobe dude… i’m waiting for your mail

By: Brian L

Brian L — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:02:56 +0000

I’m surprised Profilactic was not mentioned in this article, considering that Nick Gonzales gives the first endorsement on their home page.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:46:57 +0000

@ Dave Sherratt, have a look at our site (Lovest.at) on about Wednesday… It’s full of bugs at the moment due to a HUGE deploy this weekend, but hopefully it’ll hit the spot when these are fixed over the next day or two.

It brings friends from a number of social networks together, gives you newsfeeds and you can plug in your email contacts too (and access third party socnet messaging systems).

This side isn’t even really the main service (that’s the social ads model), but I hope it hits the spot (in about two days…)

By: Dave Sherratt

Dave Sherratt — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:39:10 +0000

Hmm.. this space is filling up quickly. Which is good i guess. variety is always better than no choice.. just a shame that non yet released have really captured what i am looking for.. although i must say the addon mt with a product similar to this is very interesting indeed, if only it was coded in ror and not php..

By: Daily Tech Impressions

Daily Tech Impressions — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:14:13 +0000

Seems like a cool service, its interesting how many different kinds of web technology comes about from social networks!