Just yesterday, i wrote about Juan Xavier Larrea and Lifestream.fm and their Widget Badge. while i did i talked a little about it´s competitors. one of those is SocialThing!. the one i called Snobbish. Today when i visited this blog dashboard. i was surprised by a comment of Ben Brightwell (founder of SocialThing!) thanking me and giving me 25 invites to give away that use the invite code “snobbish”.
And in the spirit of Ben bearing such a good sport with my remarks i thought it was my duty to make a thank you post for those invites and give a little clarification on the what i said about SocialThing!.
What i meant with SocialThing as to why i thought it was snobbish was that it is only fully usable in firefox and while it works on safari and Opera, i find it has some hiccups in them.
It of course obviates IE completely, and i don´t means the obviously outdated IE6 but also IE7 and even IE8. that made me think they truly were using some advanced stuff. i truly expected to see something that justified that. but it really don´t displays as something incredible cool or rich. would like to get the technical explanation on this.
As you can see in the pic, the lifestream looks ok, and i would say it is only mildly more advanced than the Pownce Notes River, but i guess the whole “private beta” should be more than enough for me to cut them some slack until launched. and i do. i just hope they don´t commit the mistake of not supporting IE 7/8 by launch like other niche Start ups have done, something that have sent them into oblivion because they didn´t got traction.
And Even then SocialThing! got their work cut out for them because they will have to compete with Friendfeed and Lifestream.fm along solutions like MyBlogLog, Profilactic and even the recently updated Facebook Mini-feed and Plaxo Pulse.
My recommendation would be that they should launch with a seamless but scaled web, mobile, desktop, Facebook and Widget version of the service( yeah, were is the widget?). doing that would give them a total win. otherwise, i don´t see SocialThig! disrupting Friendfeed or even claiming a second place on this niche as fast as they need it.
Leaving all that Behind, now you can Claim your SocialThing! invite by using this Special Link provided for Widgets Lab:
Widgets Labs Socialthing! Invites <— Claim your invite
That link got 25 invites and i got another 5 extra invites. so if the invites run out just leave a comment here and i will provide you with one.
*UPDATE*: I no longer have invites. i ended up inviting over 100 people. but i got a general promo code. since SocialThing! got acquired by . the invite code while registrating has been “AOL” (upperscale and without the “”). use it while it is good. if it fails. then it may have been deactivated but at the time of writing it still worked.
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i want an invite! plz!
@sturdy: read the whole post. there is a code at the end..
Can I please have an invite?! I want to be on the socialthing!
please read the final lines of the post.
I would love to get an invite to SocialThing!
Thanks – Garry