SocialThing!: 30 Invites for the Taking and a Clarification

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SocialThing!: 30 Invites for the Taking and a Clarification

by Avatar	Stumble this!	April 15th 2008

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It of course obviates IE completely, and i don´t means the obviously outdated IE6 but also IE7 and even IE8.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.

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34 Comments »

I need an invite to get SocialThing!?

Comment by Delor.es.Defacto — 04-17-08 @ 6:28 pm

Delor.es.Defacto (good play of words by the way)@:

You got it.

Comment by Avatar — 04-17-08 @ 8:10 pm

Can I get an invite?

- m|G

mg [at] matthewgranda [dot] [com]

Comment by Matthew Granda — 05-15-08 @ 10:44 pm

Could I get an invite?

Comment by Magnus O. — 05-23-08 @ 8:32 am

@Matthew and @Magnus:

Sorry for the lateness, you now both got a invite to SocialThing.

Comment by Avatar — 05-26-08 @ 5:31 am

Could I get one please?!

Comment by Jon — 05-26-08 @ 11:41 am

@jon:

now you got it.

Comment by Avatar — 05-27-08 @ 6:36 am

Hi, I’d love an invite, if there are more to share. Please and thank you!

Comment by Wolven — 05-29-08 @ 7:17 am

Thanks man. Love it. I can’t wait until they release more features.

Comment by Matthew Granda — 05-30-08 @ 11:09 am

@Wolven: Done, enjoy it. and i got plenty of invites.

Comment by Avatar — 05-31-08 @ 2:17 am

@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.

Comment by Avatar — 05-31-08 @ 2:22 am

Thank you, Avatar, setting it up right now.

Comment by Wolven — 06-2-08 @ 6:25 am

@Wolven: Not a problem. enjoy.

Comment by Avatar — 06-3-08 @ 12:32 am

can i have one? thank you soooooooo much

Comment by Ming — 06-9-08 @ 9:31 pm

@Ming: sure, no problem. it is on your way.

Comment by Avatar — 06-9-08 @ 11:18 pm

Hi: If you give an invite to SocialThing! I’d thank you so much. Please give me one!

Thanks in adance.

AntonioR

Comment by AntorioR — 06-11-08 @ 9:56 am

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

Comment by Bret — 06-12-08 @ 8:54 pm

@AntorioR: ya te la mande, y mejor ahora que ya salio a version 2.0

Comment by Avatar — 06-13-08 @ 4:42 am

@Bret: now you got one. enjoy.

Comment by Avatar — 06-13-08 @ 5:10 am

i’d love an invite if you happen to have any left!

Comment by Ryan — 06-13-08 @ 10:37 pm

Hey, I’d love to have one too!

Comment by Phil A — 06-15-08 @ 10:04 am

@Phil A: not a problem, enjoy

Comment by Avatar — 06-15-08 @ 7:12 pm

I didn’t receive an invite…. philsblogging at gmail dot com

Comment by Phil A — 06-16-08 @ 12:59 am

@Phil A: how about now?

Comment by Avatar — 06-16-08 @ 6:33 am

Please give me an invite to SocialThing!
I would be in your debt forever!
Thanks in advance

Comment by randy orr — 06-18-08 @ 11:20 pm

@randy orr: done, enjoy.

Comment by Avatar — 06-19-08 @ 12:29 pm

i realize that i may be to late, but i would greatly appreciate an invite to socialthing. thanks very much!

Comment by Dale — 07-3-08 @ 6:31 am

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!

Comment by Nick Kalave — 07-3-08 @ 1:26 pm