Power.com is not so powerful

Referring to TechCrunch post: “Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users”

Good idea, but underwhelming execution. I agree with other comments regarding the bugs. But my chief complaint is the lack of aggregation functionality. I hooked up my MySpace and Facebook accounts, and as far as I can tell, while I can switch between them, never do I see a combined list. My list of Friends only seems to have my Facebook friends. My list of messages only has my Facebook messages. etc. In addition, the updates list is only for a single network, so there’s no intersection or aggregation across networks so that I can track conversations which cross social networks.

Michael Arrington also states that I can use Power.com to update my status across the networks. How? There does not seem to be any functionality to accomplish this. There is an ability to send messages to users in multiple social networks at once, but that’s not the same thing as updating my status message.

Right now, Power.com functions ok as a launch pad, but due to the bugs and otherwise missing functionality, I think I’ll stick to using Flock with tabs for each social network and save the screen real estate.

Crossposted on zyggyrat.wordpress.com.

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  1. Hi Stephen,

    Guess what? I have your same name. I know big whoop. But it is kind of cool writing to someone who has the same name – for me anyway.

    Also I’m a Systems Administrator. I don’t think I’m quite as savvy with computers as you seem to be but nevertheless, I’m in the same field!! Wonder if we are related some distant way.

    Possible but then the name Arbour is like Smith in Canada. Pages and pages of Arbour’s. Great, Great, Great Grandpa was a busy man!

    Take care
    Stephen

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