Bring Social networks to your desktop

By Chris Martin at 18 February, 2008, 2:53 pm

A social network service focuses on building online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories such as former pals, means to connect with friends and systems linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace, Bebo and Facebook being the most widely used in the anglosphere, Hi5 in parts of Europe, Google’s Orkut in Brazil, and Friendster being the most widely used in Asia.But it is very painful if you have your account in many social networking site.Everytime you have to login to other website to get connected with your friend which is sheer waste of time.

8hands is a small and friendly application which resembles instant messenger that will simplify your social networking experience. You need not to remember all those logins and refreshing of a million tabs – 8hands will do the dirty work for you. It will aggregate all of your social network’s information, spanning MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts, showing stats such as your overall traffic rank and your number of friends. RSS feeds can also be added to your 8hands account. With 8hands, you can organize and optimize your different online profiles from one place, while receiving real time notifications of your events. You can even IM and share online content with your friends. While chatting with your friends you can share your flickr photo and youtube videos also. Just drag and drop your YouTube videos, Flickr pics in the chat window. You can even get notifications of new comments, messages, friend requests, videos, feeds and more - in real time and can receive summaries and statistics on your social networking activities.
Being in alpha stage this web app is really good in layout design and is helpful to those who have accounts in many social networking websites.

Why to use 8hands:

1) It looks like IM and is one point access to MySpace, Facebook, Blogs, Flickr, YouTube and more.
2) You can get notifications of new comments, messages, friend requests, videos, feeds, and more - in real time.
3) An IM where you can easily chat and share flicker photos and youtube videos with your social network friends.
4) A way to organize your social media content (pics, videos, posts) in one place.

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