This is kind of tough, because I am a huge fan of Peter Gabriel—not only as a musician, but as an interactive artist who has often been very far ahead of the curve. But this latest effort, a new site to help you sort through all the media out there is a real loser. One among many, in fact.
I’ve been trying out a couple of what you would call social feed aggregators. Yeah, I know. Ugh. But what friendfeed.com and socialthing.com are trying to accomplish is just exactly that—getting all your information about friends on all your various social sites (think Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Shelfari, Blogger, etc). You want to keep up with all the news and activity from your friends on those sites; wouldn’t it be nice to do it in one place, right?
There are a lot of Web 2.0 folks out there competing for the gold medal in online To do list application. There’s a clear winner. It’s Todoist. Why? For starters—and this is precisely why I realized I had to actually blog about the service as opposed to just use it—rather than just import it into my iGoogle home page, I just made it my home page on all my machines. It’s that useful. The first thing I want to see when I wake up is Todoist.
