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AOL buys SocialThing — but why?

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

As lots of people are reporting this morning (and as TechCrunch speculated a couple of weeks ago) AOL has bought the “lifestream aggregator” known as Socialthing, which came out of Colorado-based venture capital outfit TechStars. It’s an interesting move by ... Continue reading »

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  • mrshl

    10 months ago

    I love SocialThing!, but it serves a completely different purpose than FriendFeed. It's genius is the ability to collect all your friends from the multitude of services you use without having to bug people to join up with ANOTHER social media site. Since most of my friends are NOT on FF, SocialThing works as a kind of social Google Reader for pals who use Flickr and Twitter, but are unlikely to join FF.
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  • mathewi

    10 months ago

    That's a fair point, mrshl -- but FriendFeed's imaginary friend feature serves the same purpose.
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  • Sid Savara

    10 months ago

    I'm confused why they bought it as well. I don't really see where this fits into their "strategy" - although maybe I just don't get it ;)
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