Lets get Streamy…
Streamy.com – http://streamy.com/ – 3 Stars (with an option for more…)
Streamy is nifty. It is best described as a “social media aggregator” (Helene, you’re right, “social media”, on further reflection, is not a great term). It lets you hook into your RSS feeds and your Twitter, Facebook, Digg, FriendFeed, and Flickr accounts. This idea is cool in and of itself. What raises it to the stratospheric heights of “nifty” is the execution. Streamy is slick! The interface glides (almost) effortlessly from one activity to another.
Streamy Interface
You can follow other users with Streamy’s Facebook-like status feed. Users can also folow what material you mark as a “favorite” and read your comments. As you can see from the screenshots, the inteface is very clean for as much as is crammed on the screen.
Streamy Profile - Sorry about the retina burning shirt...
My favorite part is the inter-connectivity that this lends to the social apps. See an article in your feeds you want to push to your Twitter readers? Just left click and hold the title in the interface until a little graphical menu pops up and select “Twitter”. This will automatically pop the link into the onboard Twitter with a shortend URL. You can just pop in what other additional text you will.
Streamy Pop-up Menu
Streamy has the potential to be game-changing. It’s user-friendly and creates all sorts of new connections between various Web 2.0 tools and integrate all of them into a more usable whole. Streamy is currently still very beta and has some quirks from time to time. Currently, its not compatible with Internet Explorer (say what? – I know), so they’ll have to fix that particular issue. This is why it only gets three stars for now. There’s really more to Streamy, so I suggest you check it out for yourself. Its one way to help the Streamy folks create a better product, and I for one am interested in seeing where they can go with this.
