Finally, a web service offers open arms to Powncers where Six Apart fell short: Soup.io, a great aggregation and lifestreaming tool I’ve blogged about before, has just released a beta Pownce Migration Tool designed to help refugee Powncers make a home with another great service. You can access this tool at http://www.soup.io/pownce, a site that warmly reads, “Been abandoned by your web app? We’ve built this migration tool to allow you to give Soup a shot and see if it might be the right home for you.”
With the developments of the last month and a half or so, it’s clear to me that the needs of the social web have moved past filtering. As the economy impacts the tech sphere, once-sturdy Web 2.0 startups crumble, and even the most powerful publishing companies begin to feel the strain, I’m realizing that what I and many fellow users need now is simplicity, a step beyond mere filtering– it’s what we reach once we’ve refined, drilled down, and pared away all but the necessities of our social web and social media experiences.
This is HUGE for me. Why? I have virtually no reason whatsoever to use Vimeo anymore, a site I’ve been relying on recently for its HD upload feature (which has been out for a while now– same with a photo hosting site I use called SmugMug). I’m able to take all my business directly to Facebook.
The Simplification era is nigh
With the developments of the last month and a half or so, it’s clear to me that the needs of the social web have moved past filtering. As the economy impacts the tech sphere, once-sturdy Web 2.0 startups crumble, and even the most powerful publishing companies begin to feel the strain, I’m realizing that what I and many fellow users need now is simplicity, a step beyond mere filtering– it’s what we reach once we’ve refined, drilled down, and pared away all but the necessities of our social web and social media experiences.