Thanks to BrandFlakesForBreakfast I found a cool new online service called Flavors.me that allows you to aggregate your social feeds (Twitter, Facebook …).
You are probably thinking …”So what!?“ There are a hundred social media aggregators out there (TweetDeck, Brizzly, etc).
True, but this one takes it a little bit in reverse and is akin to your social buzz business card. It pulls in all your various outbound feeds and aggregates them onto a simple splash page that you can personalize with an image background.
The site is still in beta, so there are a few issues with it currently. The Facebook feed seems a little buggy, and it is missing several social partners (LinkedIn…) that I would have expected to see in the setup options. The admin for your personalized page is very simple/ intuitive, so the overall setup took me maybe 10 minutes.
Great potential with Flavors.me so go check it out and apply for an invite to participate in their beta.
Recently AddToAny, makers of one of the most popular sharing widgets, published a report on the status of sharing on the Internet today. Some of the results are pretty interesting — not a shocker that Facebook leads the pack with 24%, but I was a little surprised to see that Twitter was only at 10.8% & that Digg and Reddit were under 5%. See the full graph below.
These are definitely interesting stats, but another stat that I would have liked to have seen is how much sharing has grown over the past 1 – 2 years. In addition, I would like to see a stat that isolates the AddToAny widget and compares the amount of sharing from pages/sites that have the widget vs. those that only have the “share via email” feature. I think you would see a massive drop in sharing activity (probably a massive drop in the growth rate of Facebook and Twitter too).
Let’s face it, if it takes more than 1-click to complete an action online the conversion rate for that action drops significantly. In other words, we are very very very lazy.
So, let’s give some credit where it is due. Little widgets like AddToAny are a HUGE part of the reason we are sharing so much these days. I think Mark Zuckerberg should send the AddToAny creators a few million bucks (wunderkind chump change) in thank you money.
