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8hands social-network manager enters public beta

Over the weekend, 8hands announced the public beta release of its social networking aggregator for Windows (download).

The application--sort of a FriendFeed meets Outlook add-on Xobni--is part RSS and social-network notifier and part organizer. Sign on to a handful of profiles and RSS feeds, and 8hands will suck in comments, messages, videos, news stories, and friend requests, plus prioritize your friends by who you contact most. It also spits out statistics of your social-networking activities, and lets you drag and drop online content, like Flickr photos, to share with pals.

New to 8hands beta is a tweaked user interface … Read more

I don't need 8hands to reach my friends

If more than one-fifth of Web startups are social networking sites, as the Webware 100 indicates, then a service pooling together your various online identities should be pretty handy, just like Trillian is for instant messaging. 8hands is one of the latest services designed to coordinate social networking contacts (see YoName too). It grabs your buddies from Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, TypePad, YouTube, MySpace, WordPress, and LiveJournal and displays them in a floating, IM-sized window. This free, 8.5MB alpha app took about five minutes to download on Windows XP.

8hands is supposed to rank your pals according to how often … Read more