What ever happened to Fidg’t?
November 6th, 2008 | Published in Mobile, Social media, Social networking
KillerStartups and several other sites featured Fidg’t, developed by the LA-based company Protohaus, as a very promising new tool last year. Fidg’t is a “social networking address book” that promised to help users to aggregate all of their social networking sites and group them into meta contacts. In other words, put all your friends from different networks together, on one account.
And then, with the Fidg’t Visualizer, users could bring together all of their contacts’ media and explore recently posted media files on everybody’s accounts. And with a Fidg’t-supported mobile phone, you could chat, upload photos, and browse through your network.
Sounds great, huh? But a year later, Fidg’t still supports only a handful of social networking services: Flickr, Last.Fm, AIM and MSN Messenger. The list of supported mobile devices is also short, and includes only a couple of Nokia Nseries phones. For users who set up a Fidg’t account but then want to delete it, the only way of doing so is by sending an e-mail to Fidg’t. With a service that looks so undeveloped that sounds a bit dodgy to me, after giving all my user account data to the service.
Too bad. It’s an interesting service that could go much further. Hopefully the development team will still pick it up and and continue their work one day.
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I’m an interaction designer, information architect, strategist and creative lead, multi-skilled and versed in creative, strategy and technology. I’m also known as an electronic musician who has traveled the world from Tampere to Tokyo. I earned my experience as art director, concept designer and creative director in Scandinavia, praised for its award-hoarding digital agencies, then went on to work in the Middle East, the United States, and Canada. Currently, I work as Interaction Design Director at R/GA as well as a freelance interaction designer and information architect. My work has been awarded with national and international awards.
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