FriendBinder Launched

We have just removed the invite system from FriendBinder which means anyone can now join!

Here is quick overview of what friendbinder does:

Friendbinder is Multi-social network client, it connects to all your existing friends on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others.

It allows you to update your statuses to Facebook and Twitter. You can also comment and like Facebook content from the stream. For Twitter content you can reply or retweet inline and view a thread of replies from your friends.

FriendBinder also allows you to view the photos from your friends on Flickr and photos they have favourited.

FriendBinder works in a similar way to a twitter client in that your friends do not have to join FriendBinder, you will always see all of your friend's content.

You can join at http://friendbinder.com.

I hope you enjoy friendbinder and please report to us any problems or tell us of features you would like.

Style update and Launch date

We have updated the site style again. We have simplified the row style so it a bit less busy and the overall look has changed to allow a clear distinction between the stream and the activity column. The context menu is now available by clicking on a friend's picture (instead of the pencil icon). We now also support grouping all a person's activity, so that if they post a Twitter update at shortly after a Facebook (or the same time) they will now be grouped.

Finally, we are preparing for a public beta launch which should happen on the 1st of September.

Threaded Twitter Conversations

We've added a feature to show you conversations from your friends, it's pretty simple as you can see from the screenshot. You can reply to any part of the conversation.

Facebook Stream API support in FriendBinder

Facebook yesterday updated their API to allow more access to the stream. This means that we can now read replies and likes to items in the stream. We have implemented this for status updates today and we will support the other types in the next few days.

Facebook will soon allow replying and liking of these items and we will support that when it is available.