We want to hear from you…

We want you to tell us what kinds of things you want our upcoming API to do…head over to the link below and tell us!

http://getsatisfaction.com/socialthing/topics/tell_us_what_features_you_want_to_see_in_the_st_api

The closer we get to releasing Socialthing! to the public, the better we’re able to get some really cool stuff included in the app. We’ve already got some sweet new features that will be ready for launch, but we’d really like to hear from the community. What’s been swirling around in your mind when you’ve been using Socialthing!? What’s been that ONE thing that you wish that we did? Well, we want to hear about it…so tell us in the comments, and we’ll see what we can do to get it in there…

Any time you see another feature someone else posted that you think is awesome, go ahead and vote it up. Our blog comments are powered by our friends over at Intense Debate and it will help us with our little experiment here…

We can’t wait to show off all the new things that are just around the corner…

Last week we opened up a couple new features appropriately called “Post” and “Vote”. They appear as tabs on the right side of the tab bar.

Post is so that you’re able to post status messages to multiple places at once. We’ve got a lot more planned for this tab, but for now you can at least blast a message to all of your friends on the services that support status messages. Currently that’s Facebook, Pownce and Twitter. Soon we’ll be supporting a few other services that do posting.

We also opened up the ability to vote for your favorite services so that they might be included in Socialthing! faster. Our community is one of the most important things to us, and just arbitrarily adding services isn’t what we’re about. We want to add the stuff that is most important to our users, so that was the inspiration behind this feature.

Moving forward we’ve got some big changes coming, so stay tuned!

After a great reception at SXSW and a nice TechCrunch article, the feedback and suggestions we are getting from everyone helping us test Socialthing! as we build it has been amazing.

The most recent example is a great video from Ross LaRocco. Ross shows us how to build a Socialthing! desktop app using Fluid. It only works on Mac OS X and it is really, really cool!

AS IT HAPPENED #2 Socialthing ‘Desktop’ App (Mac) from Ross LaRocco on Vimeo.

Keep up with Ross’s screencasts called As it Happened. Thanks a ton Ross!!

Please keep all of the great feedback coming everybody.

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!