So it’s been a week so I’ve updated the blog. A lot has happened…and that’s an understatement.

Last week we launched our private beta and so far it seems to have stirred up quite the buzz. We’re happy, excited and humbled all at the same time. I’d love to post a link to all of the blogs that talked about us and give them thanks, but I’ll just say “thanks everyone” instead.

So enough with the past, let’s talk about the present and future.

We have been experiencing some growing pains for sure. Not necessarily with scaling, but rather, with some services (specifically del.icio.us, Digg, Last.fm and YouTube). We were calling them entirely too much, causing us to have to back off and temporarily disable them. We have made some temporary fixes to be able to put these back in, but they may run in slightly limited function until we get our big architecture rewrite up and running. Other than that, the site has been running pretty smoothly. However, last night we ran into an issue that we’re still investigating. It has caused us to be down for a few hours unfortunately, but that’s what being beta is all about. It’s too bad that we have to be down for those that are relying on the service right now, but at the same time, it’s better to learn about things now than when we have more functionality and more users and they’re relying on us just that much more. Once we’re back up and running it’ll be another fix under our belt that will help us in the future.

So while we’re on the subject of the future, let’s talk about that for a moment. We’re working very hard on bringing you a lot of things. New features, tons of new services, etc. Everyone has been clamoring for something different…specific new services, status message updates to Facebook, etc. Well I can tell you a few things. We have a very extensive roadmap with a ton of great features that all play into the premise that we’re a “digital life manager”. Right now we’re working on the most mission critical pieces of that. There’s some things that we’re releasing soon that will be pretty significant. One thing in particular will allow you to “collapse your social graph”. More on what that means when the feature gets released.

Beyond that, I don’t want to speak too much into the “future” releases, because that’s half of what makes them exciting, but we do have plans in the short term to “finish” the iPhone application (in the meantime, you can send your iPhone to http://socialthing.com/iphone to see the work in progress), as well as continue working on our API.

The site will be up and running shortly we’ll let you know just as soon as our new features are released…this is an exciting time for us, and I can’t for you to see what we have up our sleeves!