Steve,
Hey, we’re working on http://wheezio.uk.to
It will allow people to easily add all their twitter, jaiku, pownce, facebook, livejournal, blogger etc accounts.
The users will then be able to simply write whatever they want to post ONCE and choose which of their services they wish to post it to, and hit post. Their blog post will then be posted automatically to all the services they chose.
This idea arose due to the fact that new twitter-like apps are coming out all the time and some people move between them, but not all their friends move with them. So they have to post on multiple sites for all their friends to be able to be kept up-to-date. So with this they could just post their stuff once and it goes to whatever ones they wish.
Also users should be able to get all their updates from the different sites in one place. Save them checking all their social sites to get their friends updates. Although this feature is still under consideration as to whether it would be feasible to add this extra feature.
We don’t currently have any money making plans for it, as we have some larger sites in development that would help fund such smaller applications that we have came up with.
Its not currently open for users yet, but we’re getting there rather quickly.
Just wondering what your thoughts were on it, i think it would appeal to a lot of people, as it is very simple to use and the need is there.
Cheers
Joe Finnigan
http://nightworkmedia.uk.to/
Joe,
Sounds like a good concept — just trying to think whether I’d use it. Like you (and most), I have many social accounts – Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, my blog, etc. Problem is, I typically have to login to all of them at some point to see if I have new messages or comments from others — or to see what’s new on my friend’s accounts (since this isn’t being pushed to me anyhow).
I guess it’d be convenient to go to one site and be able to input a message, then check boxes next to the services I’d want that message published to. But going back to my paragraph above, doesn’t that eliminate the social parts of all those social services I’m apart of — I don’t want to just share with the world, but I want to see what my world (friends/family/colleagues) are up to as well.
Then there’s the security question — would I really give up all my logins/passwords to all of these sites to one (financially unbacked) website (that would be very susceptible to being hacked — yet not have the security in place to truly lock this down)?
I likely wouldn’t use this service. 