Building Profilactic

Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online. This blog chronicles the processing of building it.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Mashable likes us, TechCrunch still denies Profilactic exists
OK, I've posted a couple of times over the years about my tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory concerning TechCrunch and Profilactic. Basically, they never mention Profilactic when they cover other social media aggregators and lifestreaming services. Plus, they don't allow my comments when I try to mention anything about Profilactic in their posts about other aggregators.

Today was probably the best example. Just after Mashable named us one of the two best lifestreaming services, TechCrunch does their review of MyBlogLog's New with Me where they mention the following:

"If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the startup feature du jour. Facebook first popularized the news feed in late 2006. Later others took the idea and opened it up, creating a news feed around activities on a variety of social networks. FriendFeed is the most popular, and recently raised a $5 million round of financing. Plaxo, Soup.io, Iminta, Spokeo, ProfileLinker, MyLifeBrand, Fuser, 30Boxes, Mugshot, Readr and Second Brain all have variations. And now, Facebook is planning to open up their NewsFeed and allow users to add other services as well."

They mention practically every other service except for Profilactic.

I've posted a comment mentioning that we've been around as long as Facebook's news feed and that we were just singled out by Mashable. Will be interesting to see if they let it through this time. Should be the 16th ot 17th on the list.

[UPDATE:] 24 hours after I posted that comment, it has yet to show up. Sigh...
Comments:
your service works great and looks better than the rest.
and i've stopped reading techcrunch a long time ago.

keep up the work.
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