Windows 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. filecloudfollow. New to 8hands beta is a tweaked user interface and the crucial ability to reply to messages, friend requests, and wall posts. The iphone app grabs onto images associated with incoming events also, and lets you shoot off status updates to multiple social networks, a feature already mastered by other social networking services, like Ping.fm. The concept isn't especially groundbreaking, and 8hands' free beta download doesn't earn any friends with a roughly 5-minute installation, a reboot, and another 5-minute process to organize your content. However, those who don't mind a minor one-time wait will be able to keeps tabs on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace buddies, newly uploaded Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and favorite RSS feeds without opening a new browser tab. Gabtastik takes Facebook IM and Google Talk off the browser.
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