As promised by developer Yongfook, self-hosted lifestreaming service Sweetcron launched a public beta yesterday, opening its doors to throngs of aggregation enthusiasts. At the beginning of the month, I wrote about why I was excited for Sweetcron’s release, and I’m happy to say that my recent dabblings in the brand-new service have met my high expectations.
As more content and conversation is aggregated, aggregation services have even arisen to sort out the aggregates, resulting in an almost overwhelming firehose of social media noise. We need an innovator– fast– to keep us from drowning in information that is extraneous, duplicate, meaningless, or offensive.
Fortunately for the Internet, we have that innovator: FriendFeed. This new-age service has revealed to us the true ‘fourth generation’ of social media value: filtering.
This just in: my favorite social aggregator, Socialthing!, now supports Brightkite, Plurk, Seesmic, and Guitar Hero– a great update to a fantastic service!
Filtering: Why FriendFeed is taking the web to the next level
As more content and conversation is aggregated, aggregation services have even arisen to sort out the aggregates, resulting in an almost overwhelming firehose of social media noise. We need an innovator– fast– to keep us from drowning in information that is extraneous, duplicate, meaningless, or offensive.
Fortunately for the Internet, we have that innovator: FriendFeed. This new-age service has revealed to us the true ‘fourth generation’ of social media value: filtering.