With new social sites cropping up and more information to manage in more places, how do you deal with the social sites you are a member of? Do you visit individually? Or do you manage them using a third party app (web or desktop) to aggregate and connect with your friends/followers? If you could design a service to bring your profiles together what would it do?
I have my own little aggregator running, it's still very much under development though. I'm trying to get away from the 'there goes the neighbourhood' feeling that almost every social network seems to suffer from sooner or later.<p>I think that there is much more 'value' in an upvote or a downvote of an article / comment than just the 'karma' the way HN,/., digg and so on use it.<p>Easier said than done though :)<p>Also, I absolutely suck at design...
I browse them individually. I don't really trust giving my credentials to aggregators. I only really use a few so it isn't worth it to have a separate app/site.
I stopped using MySpace except for IM on my phone. Twitter posts to Facebook, and I only use 3rd party twitter apps. If I have to use Facebook to reply to a message, I use the iPhone app. So I guess I use my iPhone to aggregate them all.
i am currently mostly visiting them once in a while except a few which i visit regularly.<p>Besides that can any buddy suggest me any desktop application for such <- avoid suggesting flock coz i don't like it.
What I do: browser bookmarks + regular calendar reminders "should I visit network xyz?". (No email notifications or anything.)<p>If I could design a service...
It would pick the _type_ of new stuff of each network of my choosing and aggregate like a Feedreader. With type I mean for example: new entries on my wall in a given Ning community, but no personal messages and aggregate those together with friend requests on Facebook.