Review of LifeIO

With the increasing amount of connectivity services scattered over the web in different forms there is no longer a question of if we will start to use aggregators to bring together these services. I personally have 12 email accounts for various companies and roles, 3 twitter accounts, 4 IM accounts (ICQ/AIM, GTalk, MSN and Skype) and 2 social networking accounts (Facebook and LinkedIn). Hence I’d love to have a place where I could aggregate all of them. The only question now is about who will provide the mainstream solution.

LifeIO is one of the new kids on the block in the increasingly crowded space of email/social networks/news feed aggregators. The first wave hit back in 2006 when both Fuser and Orgoo stole a lot of attention in online media. However, none of them really seem to have taken off. This year at TechCrunch 50 there were (at least) two new competitors present: LifeIO and threadsy.
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