Stop Wasting Time Checking All Your Social Profiles, Get 8hands
If you maintain accounts on multiple social sites (say Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace), consider using 8hands - a small Windows software that monitors your social circle and will bring some peace to your otherwise chaotic online life.
With 8hands, you’ll instantly know (via desktop alerts) when friends upload new pictures on Flickr, or there’s a new comment on your Flickr photos, or when you have private messages on Facebook or new tweets on Twitter - no need to manually check profiles on all the different websites.
Now Flock too offers similar features but 8hands, a standalone app, has two main advantages:
1. 8hands will automatically guess your top friends with whom you communicate most frequently across all social networks - so it becomes all the more simple to reach them again.
2. 8hands maintains a complete history or log of all your friend’s activity. Very useful when you are looking for Facebook messages, Flickr photos and Twitter tweets ever published by a close friend.
8hands is in alpha but worth giving a try. It’s been running in my system tray for a few hours now and am loving the notifications.
www.8hands.com - Thanks Stefanos. Great find.
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Wow, Thats cool.Thanks Amit for sharing this useful software.I will give it a try..
Thanks again for the tip. Currently I do get updates via email, but sometimes too many. Using 8hands will probably help centralize updates a bit…
I am quite happy with the in built Flock notification. 8hands seems be to useful, but I don’t see the point of crowding one’s desktop.
Ruhi - it can run minimized in your system tray and you see alerts only where there’s an event on one of your social networks.
Nice Article ..does it work with orkut as well..
spokeo is another site for similar purpose.
wow its cool amit.
This app is a good example of moving away from basic concept of internet. So now we have frnds on different sites and we do to those sites to communicate with them or rather get a ’soical status’, the same can be done with a central place called email
I see 2008 a big downfall on social network unless they focus on things like music or something like that
Well that looks really cool as we can manage our online world a bit easily than personally going to all the sites and checking for updates.Thanxs for this news.
cheers.