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The other day on my friendstream post I covered lifestreams (aggregating all your profiles into one content stream), and most of these services are social networks allowing you to add friends, thus also having a friendstream…some of them even have an external friendstream feature (which is handy if your friends haven’t registered with your lifestream service).

Regarding external friendstreams, Spokeo (this is not a lifestream service) will fetch all your friends profiles from the services you use.
Whereas Tabber will allow you to create a lifestream for each of your friends from scratch…eeek, why do I have to do all the work.
This may be good in that you can add stuff from their networks that you may not belong to.

Haven’t tried Blueswarm, but it may auto-add a friendstream for you…a few others in my friendstream post are also mentioned, only they don’t stream the content.

I think entering your email contacts, and have the system look for these emails at various social networks will help identify and gather all your friends profiles and create a list and friendstream for you. Then you could manually enter missing stuff to just fill in the blanks.

Receive/Send messages and comments from one place

So that’s a friendstream, but what if you want to go further and be able to be notified and see messages and comments your friends have sent to any of your profiles, and in turn, what if you want to leave comments and messages on one of their profiles without having to go there.

ProfileLinker I believe has some of these features, and what about 8hands and minggl…can anyone fill me in on whether any of these services allow you to receive comments/messages from all your profiles in one spot, and send comments/messages from the one spot?

Come to think of it, to receive messages/comments, or at least a notification that you have a comment/message in one central place is the good old email account.
But this lacks in sending messages/comments to your friends various profiles from within your email.

See Fuser (below) for more on this.

I guess this is a bit similar to multi-IM clients like meebo that allow you to send and receive chat with various IM clients.

Also similar to this concept is GrandCentral, being the one place to keep up with phone communications.

What about even posting content to your own various profiles from the one place, lots of services I use allow you to post content by email.

Wow, from the one place you could:

- have a lifestream (as well as your own identity page)
- have a friendstream (as well as a contact/friend/buddy list…basically an identity page for each contact)
- save links from your friendstream back into any of your various social networks, like del.icio.us (or perhaps within this service)
- comment/message/share links (from your friendstream) to any of your friends social network profiles
- receive comment/messages from any of your profiles
- also be able to IM a contact (even group chat)
- add content to any of your social networks

Only thing missing is an RSS Reader, where you could then save links (as per above) and share links (as per above).

To go the extra mile you could have a section to subscribe to your friends OPML URL Reading List, but then you don’t have to, because the idea is that stuff they find in their Reading List will come to you anyway, if it’s relevant to you, this is the social filter (personalised/recommended content via your friends).

I imagine this service not to be a social network (too fatigued), but rather a personal management tool, where you could make a few pages public, like your lifestream, and friendstream.

This is coming close to the idea of attention streams and flows, leveraging on your tribe of friends, as well as a personal knowledge management central space. It also touches on Stowe Boyd’s Nerdvana concept, where your buddy list will have groups, and for each person: latest unread email, IM, blog post, appointment, read more for the whole centric concept.

Dinesh Tantri has some more thoughts where you don’t have to rely on being explicitly sent stuff from your friends network, or subscribe to your friends stuff to see the latest, but moreso automatically be notified if one of your friends performs an action that is relevant to you eg. blog post, comment, saved link, etc…

This concept would perhaps play on your Engagd APML file. You associate your APML file against the RSS feed of your friendstream, and any new stuff that your APML file agrees is relevant will be sent to you in any delivery format.
From here you can action this new stuff you have received by blogging it, emailing it, bookmarking it, IM a friend, sending a message or comment to a friend/s wall in any or many social networks, etc…

So what we have here is being able to:

1. follow your friends activities in one place
2. being able to send/receive stuff from them
3. being sent stuff automatically based on the matches from your APML file against your RSS friendstream.

Fuser

Anyway this post was meant to be about Fuser, what a tangent!

Fuser answers half of one of my criteria above: one place to receive all messages and comments from all your social networks and email accounts.

What I’m interested in is receiving messages/comments from all my social networks in the one space, but as mentioned earlier my email account does this anyway.
But it is a good idea to have all these types of communications in a separate service, away from usual email…hmmm, I could use a Gmail filter.

I haven’t tested Fuser as I don’t have a registration code, but this is what I expect to see from all my social networks:

- private messages, profile wall comments, comments on an item from my social network (eg. new comment on one of my YouTube posts)

I’m not just talking notifications, I want the actual content, the whole idea is not having to visit these sites.

Like the ShareThis concept, I’d like to be able to send a private message to a friend/s social network or leave a comment on a friend/s profile social network from the one spot…without this sending feature it’s only one way, my email client is already receiving alerts from my various social networks.