SocialAddict - 11 Social Sites, 1 Adobe Air Application

After my recent success with Plurkit, I decided to take the idea to the next level and add in more social sites.Â The outcome is SocialAddict which has 11 social sites within one Adobe Air application.

What SocialAddict does is loads the mobile or iPhone version of each site for easy access.Â Again, I didn’t tie into any APIs or do massive re-construction.Â These are all previously available applications that have been tied together to make it quick and easy to go from one to the next.

SocialAddict Screenshot Within SocialAddict you’ll find:

BrightKite Facebook FriendFeed To Go Hellotxt Jaiku MySpace Ping.fm Plurk Pownce SocialThing and Twitter

Download SocialAddict 1.1

Requirements: Adobe Air & a social media account or five. All Free.

Have suggestions for other sites?Â Let me know the iPhone/mobile version of the site and I’ll add it in.

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Tags: adobe-air, brightkite, facebook, friendfeed, hellotxt, jaiku, myspace, pingfm, plurk, pownce, social-media, social-networking, socialthing

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40 Comments to SocialAddict - 11 Social Sites, 1 Adobe Air Application

awwwe thanks. it’s like friendfeed for your desktop. i’m going to die of distractions overload addiction (doa). my choice, or is it?

- jes June 24th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Safari 525.18 - Mac OS X

wow, great gizmo!

will there be a way to disable some of the sites we don’t use?

- daysies June 25th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

Great idea; I love it! Thanks for creating this application. I look forward to seeing it evolve over time. You should include your Adobe AIR apps in the Creations section of your website.

- enSue June 25th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista

Awesome App!

I love this! Thank you so much for building it. Now if you can just make it into a Firefox Add-on that pops-out on demand, that would be something I would use everyday!

- Stephen Robinson June 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

I twas thinking of that Stephen

- Thomas June 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

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WordPress 2.5.1

I would LOVE to see this as a Firefox extension

- tw3nty3ight June 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Mac OS X

See my this post and you can see how to add it to your sidebar.

- Thomas June 26th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

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WordPress 2.5.1

Please please.. make it also work on Linux

- Jase June 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Ubuntu Linux

Cool tool! I’m taking it for a spin. Found this post via Friendfeed, BTW

- Sharon Hurley Hall June 28th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

This is so great! Just what I needed. Thanks.

- Courtney July 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista

Sorry, it is simply a web browser inside a Adobe Air App with Tabs … Twhirl works better

- Chacha102 July 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

Hi Chacha102 - Twhirl works great with Twitter and twitter services but it doesn’t tie in other social services. Yes, SocialAddict isn’t as cool as Twhirl but it’s not really to be compared.

- Thomas July 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

Hmmm, am I the only one who can’t even unzip this download on Mac OS X.5.4? The default Archive Utility creates a .GCZP file (whatever that is) and Stuffit Expander says the archive is corrupt. Bizarre…

- oriste July 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Safari 525.20.1 - Mac OS X

Never mind, Safari adds the extension .zip for some reason that I don’t even wish to understand. Just deleting the .zip extension enables the installer to execute.

- oriste July 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Safari 525.20.1 - Mac OS X

Hello

Think you can integrate this site in your application ?
http://vibstars.com/

api doc
http://vibstars.com/blog/api.php

- Christophe Lefevre July 25th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.5.1

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WordPress 2.5

Testing this out after seeing it here - http://thepuckwrites.com/social-media/ten-steps-social-media/ - looks very promising. Thanks for this!

- ChaCha Fance July 27th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista

Just wanted to come back AFTER downloading this thing. You’re a genius for this!! Great job, love it! All the services I love right in one app. Can’t get any better than that!

- ChaCha Fance July 27th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista

Good to hear.

- Thomas July 27th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X

Wow good integration. i am downloading this.

- Linette katy July 27th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Internet Explorer 7.0 - Windows Vista

Excellent to see more tools tacking the issue of Social Media fragmentation. More aggregation please, let’s maximise the quality time we spend on Social Media…

- Steve Nimmons July 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 - Windows XP

Hi Thomas! I LOVE this Air app! Thanks so much for creating it — and thanks to Debra for letting me know about it.

- Joan Kremer July 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

Thanks for all the feedback!

- Thomas July 30th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X

This seems like a great app. I especially like the Ping.fm integration! Unfortunately I can’t use it since it doesn’t support Laconica / Identi.ca”. Will you consider adding support for it sometime soon? That would be awesome! It has a Twitter compatible API so it should only be a matter of exchanging the URL to the API in the Twitter part of your code, and adding the appropriate tab.

- bÃ¸rge July 31st, 2008 at 5:38 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.6

Awesome air application - thanks!

- Matt Ellsworth August 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista

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WordPress 2.5.1

I second what borge has to say above. Though I use almost all of the services you offer, it would be great if you could also integrate identi.ca into the mix as well. For me, this is the only thing that your great application lacks. Thanks for all your work on this!

- Will Humes August 8th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista

[...] Social Addict - What SocialAddict does is loads the mobile or iPhone version of each site for easy access.Â These are all previously available applications that have been tied together to make it quick and easy to go from one to the next. Social Addict currently supports: BrightKite, Facebook, FriendFeed To Go, Hellotxt, Jaiku, MySpace, Ping.fm, Plurk, Pownce, SocialThing! & Twitter; that’s a lot of sites! [...]

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WordPress 2.5.1

Can we get Rejaw added to this great app?

- jeppe August 13th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista

Does Rejaw have a mobile version?

- Thomas August 14th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X

It’s great! Do you have something that works like this but enables multi profile login?

- Louis Liem August 25th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Flock 2.0b2 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.6.1

Any plans to add other sites (kwippy, identi.ca, etc.)??

- Fred V September 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Opera 9.52 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.6.2

wonderful tools thx
i enjoy twitter and plurk

- Sentome11 October 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 - Windows Vista

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