Comment of the Day: Socialthing! Could be SXSW Breakout App
In our post SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be?, Marshall Kirkpatrick looks at five possible contenders for SXSW breakout app. Last year it was Twitter, the year before Dodgeball. Commenter Rob nominated socialthing! as a contender: "If socialthing! is able to launch their iphone interface for SXSW, it could be the huge hit. they are a bit under the radar but they are close enough to strike it big."
Congratulations Rob, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher - courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Netflix Queue Widget.
So what is Socialthing!? It's described as "a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place." In fact it was one of the 35 lifestreaming apps that Josh Catone profiled earlier this week. Josh wrote about it:
"Currently in closed beta, Socialthing! is a promising lifestreaming service that offers a nifty-looking iPhone optimized version. They're planning to release the service at SXSW."
Clever marketing move by Socialthing to release their app at SXSW. Right now it looks like a dark horse for SXSW Breakout App. But check out Marshall's post and nominate some others!. Some extra incentive: tomorrow's comments competition winner will also be taken from that post.
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I can't wait to see if they make the SxSW deadlines for the interface. We are doing a series of interviews regarding the impact of social media tools in Austin next week. If anyone from socialthing wants to get a hold of me, we would love to speak with you. Scott Parent, the guy behind the wildly successful podcasting of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will be there to produce near real-time video updates for relevantlyspeaking. Consider this an open invitation for any readwriteweb readers to participate in our video interviews. I can be reached at csmith at mediatrust dot com
Despite the BUZZ surrounding Socialthing!, I have to admit being bored to death with it after about 3 minutes. Sure, it's clean and shiny and has smooth edges... but its features are extremely limited and navigation is not at all exciting.
I like and use iminta - great look, TONS of features and services - a great product that missed being SXSWed to death - and is probably better because of it.