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Whoever can make sense of the feed/aggregator/service blip jungle again will win big time in 2009. Tag/Filter/Sort/Search.
Also: Louis, what about Posterous.com? They are doing pretty cool stuff as far as being a feed "propagator", the reverse side of the coin of FriendFeed (and something that is missing in FriendFeed to make it the de facto hub of all Web 2.0ish services; Posterous + a Tumblr-style bookmarklet + FriendFeed + Tag/Filter/Sort/Search = WIN).
Any service that doesn't understand that it is valuable to forward its own native posts to other services to get recognition/free advertising back-links is making a big mistake (e.g. Facebook Feed with an item that ends in link "via Posterous", asf.).
Great post. I agree with you on most of these. I think Feedly and Backtype have some big upside if they can get through the though economic times of 2009.
Awesome to have Toluu included in such a great list of fellow services. I am excited about 2009 for Toluu because we have some new stuff coming that should make it more useful for our existing users as well as draw in a larger audience than we have been able to attract to date.
always have big plans, but they don't tell me in advance
(unfortunately)!
FriendFeed debuted in 2007, so it didn't make sense to include them in
a "best of 2008" story, at least how this was measured. If it were a
"services that exploded on the scene and gained traction in 2008" they
would be there. (2 thumbs yes)
to be the front runner for "Potentially Most Successfull in 2009". Jason has
a winning formula and sticks with it...
Solacetech
http://myphillynetwork.com
check out, like Toluu, BackType, and the rest. There's really very
little time needed to check in and make sure it's working as you would
expect. Others that are more of a time sink, like Socialmedian or
Strands and Feedly, require more investment. Glad you like the list.
-the socialmedian team
One I would like to nominate is HelloTXT. When you really have something important to say, it's a great way to spread the word. However perhaps it started before 2008.
Not sure what you mean by not active -- everything looks fine on our end. If we're missing some of your comments, it's possible that the blogs you comment on are not part of our system yet. You can let us know at http://www.backtype.com/addblogs and we'll be sure to add them.
Best,
Mike - BackType
Twhirl, likewise, could have been covered since they also made tremendous inroads with the micro-blogging crowd thanks to its partnership with Seesmic and the above mentioned Friendfeed. While TweetDeck is nice, Twhirl has become invaluable to a vast majority of twitter users. (ironically they were experiencing issues last night and this morning due to Twitter API change).
Nit-picking, I know. There is always going to be differences of opinion when it comes to opinion pieces. Still, nice wrap up for the year that was.
Pai
TweetDeck simply rocks. If you use it, donate!
Shaun Dakin
@EndTheRoboCalls
My mother actually had a chance to use it at her office, and came away
unimpressed, so her team stopped using it. I could have included it
here, but I weighted my list toward those I use often.
Great list of awesome apps!
I have a question, a little off topic here, so I hope you don't mind....?
Q: Are u running this blog on WP...? If so what plugin are you using for the comment section? I really like the way your comments section operates. Clean, you can login or not, vote comments up or down, comment on other comments. Have you done a post on setting up a great comment element to your blogs yet...?
http://www.louisgray.com/wp-admin
and you will find a 404
desktop application. I've stuck with it due to it supporting FTP
publishing. With the addition of some new writers, I am definitely
considering looking at WordPress.
The comments section is enabled by Disqus (http://www.disqus.com) and
they do a great job.
know that with a finite amount of time, I won't get to every single
application and service. I rely on you guys to introduce the rest!
We'll see how they do in 2009.
so used to ShareThis being around, I don't even think about it. And
the truth is, I never use it, so this list is heavily biased toward
those products I actually use. Robert Scoble did a great job
uncovering some other solid apps and services that had significant
growth in 2008, and ShareThis was not missed.
Time is too preceious to spend it aggregating content for someone else - people are even getting tired talking about themselves
net a bunch of uselesss worth nothing sites which are more about mental masterbation then anything that adds real vaue to peopels lives - even blogging is going to fall to the side as the sheen falls away in the harsh light of an economic downturn
Net - there may be aquisitions but they are not going to be for much money i joined a few of thes sites you mentioned and stope participating days after i joined - why? whats in it for me ? a bit of brain titlation?
My advice to companies thinking about aquisition ? keep your money till the bankruptcy sign is out front - then buy.