Social Oyster
Tags: FriendFeed, lifestream service, RSS, social media aggregator, Social Oyster, Twitter

Social Oyster is a tool that allowed users to share their Web activities to their friends. In order to use the functionality rendered by Social Oyster, you need to register an account with them which they called it “Your Oysterpass.” After you signing up the service, you can fill-up Your Oysterpass. In other words, your profile completely with all the fields such as your favorite, your business URL, etc. Besides, they allowed you to embed your profile to your Web site or blog through a one-click button called Oysterbutton. On Social Oyster, you’ll find that all the features are labeled with the word Oyster, and I only can decipher about its offering after playing with it for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile, I believed Social Oyster is a FriendFeed (I will profile this startup in later stage) clone. Though it remains coy as it won’t say what is its ambition and which services it intends to provide in the near future on its Web site, but from the “OysterLine”, you can easily aggregate your Web activities as well as able to find out all your friends’ recent activities from this particular page. In addition, Social Oyster also build a “Public Oysterline” page which allowed users to see all the Social Oyster users’ activities in a real-time basis. The Oysterline is an ajax-realtime-reader, click on the item will bring you to that page, regardless it is aggregated from Flickr, YouTube, or del.icio.us, etc.
Social Oyster hasn’t proved that it can do well in the RSS aggregation at this moment, as I aggregate my Twitter activities to this Social Oyster, all the links appeared to be a long text, not the URL link that I expected. However, Social Oyster is seeking to offer its users a new means of searching user profile on the Web with the launched of a social search engine, users can type an username to conduct a profile search as well as use the “places” to find users in their neighborhoods.

