iminta - manage you social networking life
October 3rd, 2008 | by bgmahesh |
I came across iminta, a social networking aggregator few days back. Actually it is not a very new site, it was released in Feb 2008. Never heard of it before.
If you have been reasonably active on the net, before you know you would have ended up having an account with multiple sites - delicious, digg, stumbleupon, flickr, facebook, youtube etc. It is difficult to have one quick view of all of these accounts. You could always login to each of these accounts and check out what is happening, but it is impracticle. Iminta provides one quick view of your entire social activity and it allows you to create groups of friends and determine which groups see what content. The About Us page says,
Iminta lets you connect to what you and your friends find, all in one place. If you use different social services, you don’t have to register at all their sites to share things. And you decide what each friend sees from your profile and what you see from theirs, because Iminta’s unique filters put you in control. It doesn’t overload you with everything they do; it highlights what they find.
- Plug all the sites you use into one service. It takes about 60 seconds.
- Add/invite your friends. You can pick their emails out of Gmail, Yahoo! and others.
- Get a single profile of all the stuff you’re doing online – all your Diggs, Flickr images, bookmarks, shared Google content and more, in one place.
- Click on “What your friends are inta” and get a view of what they’ve been finding online. Then, quickly filter their content to see only what interests you. (Just because you like their photos doesn’t mean you like their music.)
- Next, decide what other people see from your profile. (Family can see Flickr but colleagues can only see last.fm.)
- Add content to your profile by doing what you already do – surfing sites and clicking to choose the content you like. It’s automatically added to your Iminta profile. You can also paste in a URL to add stuff without going to other sites, or grab something from a friend’s list for all your contacts to see.
- Get your profile in one RSS feed. Plug it into your blog or anywhere else.
- Take your friends’ discoveries with you via daily email and RSS.
The registration process is very simple and smooth. Once you login you will be amazed to see the number of social sites you could connect to. These sites are categorized by their speciality (book sites, songs, images, games etc).
The online help provided for adding each site to iminta is awesome. When you try to add your blog to iminta, it requires the login and password of your blog. I am not comfortable sharing the access details on a third party site.
Unfortunately none of the Indian networking sites figure on their list, but we do have our own news aggregators which are doing fairly well.
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