I registered for Lifestream.fm, Superglu, and TabUp. Productivity boosters? I don't see it.
Lifestream I did not like and will not keep. It's one of several applications I have, like the job search social network LinkedIn, that offer to send invitations to your entire email contact list. Our Yahoo contact list is too big and out of date, but my wife and I share it for many reasons. Like any direct mail scheme, if I invite 200 people, 2% willing participants would be a good response. I know too many people who won't appreciate such an invitation. A glance at the general listings of status messages on Lifestream, it's a flood of useless comments, worse than unfiltered Twitter. Once into Facebook or LinkedIn, there are better ways to keep up with like-minded "friends" you've never met.
Superglu warns you that only three guys are there to manage the program and it's slow. What's
slow is the time to set up the feeds from your websites. Get Blogger, and the main blog associated with your username comes in fast. Follow up with WordPress, and "waiting for" runs in the status bar forever. Same thing trying to work the settings menu. I'll keep at this one, however, to make Blogger, WordPress, and Overbooked Ning available from one login on Superglu. Frankly, there is not much advantage in that. Having several tabs open in Firefox is not a bother.
TabUp says it's much like iGoogle, and it is. I don't see a reason to use both.
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