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It of course obviates IE completely, and i don´t means the obviously outdated IE6 but also IE7 and even IE8.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 need an invite to get SocialThing!?
Delor.es.Defacto (good play of words by the way)@:
You got it.
Can I get an invite?
- m|G
mg [at] matthewgranda [dot] [com]
Could I get an invite?
@Matthew and @Magnus:
Sorry for the lateness, you now both got a invite to SocialThing.
Could I get one please?!
@jon:
now you got it.
Hi, I’d love an invite, if there are more to share. Please and thank you!
Thanks man. Love it. I can’t wait until they release more features.
@Wolven: Done, enjoy it. and i got plenty of invites.
@Matthew Granda: yeah, no problem. i like socialthing a lot. it just needs:
1.-archive pages (100 entries only?, pff)
2.-desktop app
3.-be crossbrowser
4.-lighter so it be faster
5.-support a minimum of 30 services.. it only supports 6…
so, it still needs to come a long way.
Thank you, Avatar, setting it up right now.
@Wolven: Not a problem. enjoy.
can i have one? thank you soooooooo much
@Ming: sure, no problem. it is on your way.
Hi: If you give an invite to SocialThing! I’d thank you so much. Please give me one!
Thanks in adance.
AntonioR
I dont know how late I am, but I am looking EVERYWHERE for an invite. I would be in your debt forever :]
Thanks in advance,
Bret
@AntorioR: ya te la mande, y mejor ahora que ya salio a version 2.0
@Bret: now you got one. enjoy.
i’d love an invite if you happen to have any left!
Hey, I’d love to have one too!
@Phil A: not a problem, enjoy
I didn’t receive an invite….
philsblogging at gmail dot com
@Phil A: how about now?
Please give me an invite to SocialThing!
I would be in your debt forever!
Thanks in advance
@randy orr: done, enjoy.
i realize that i may be to late, but i would greatly appreciate an invite to socialthing. thanks very much!
It’s been a while since you last got asked for a socialthing invite so I figured I’d contribute, could I possibly get an invite??
Haha thanks in advance!
@Dale and Nick:
Done and Done. enjoy.
If it’s not too much trouble, do you have an extra SocialThing invite?
@Travis: done
I’d love an invite to SocialThing…thank ya.
@Chuck: Done, you got it.
I’d really appreciate an invite. Thanks!
If you still have any invites left, I’d appreciate one
I’d appreciate an invite to socialthing as well.
An invite would be great!
I know i’m quite late in bandwagon
Any invite for me?
I am late too…but any invites left? PLEASE!!!
Any more invites?
All last 7 of you have been invited directly or given a working invite code. enjoy.
Any more invites left? I would be very pleased if I could get one. Thanks.
i’d love one!
ooh me too please!
could I get one if you still have?
Love the look of SocialThing, could be very useful in an environment that blocks social networkging sites… Would love to have a closer look if you have a spare invite or two….
Thanks
I would love to have an invite. Thanks!
Out of invites? I would really like one.
I would like to request an invite for SocialThing, please. Thank you.
I would love a socialthing invite code please (pretty please)
Please read the last update to the post just above the comments to see instructions.
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