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Acquired byAOL
Date8/08

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Websitesocialthing.com
Blogblog.socialthing.com
CategoryNetwork/Hosting
Email
Employees5
Founded5/07

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HQ
1050 Walnut Street
Suite 101
Boulder, CO, 80302
USA

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Founder & CEO
Founder & CTO
Founder & COO

Funding

Total$650k
Seed, 5/07
TechStars
$150k
Debt, 10/07
eonBusiness Venture Capital
$500k

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Socialthing

Simplifying the management of sites and services that you already use like blogs and social networks, socialthing! synchronizes your personal information, content, and friendships so that you can post this information across the social web, as opposed to just having it contained in a single site.

Socialthing is a 2007 TechStars company.

Socialthing went into private alpha on January 15th, 2008 and launched their private beta at SXSW in March 2008.

Socialthing was acquired by AOL. While the price is unconfirmed, the acquisition value is rumored to be between $5M - $10M.

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Websitesocialthing.com
Blogblog.socialthing.com
StagePrivate
Launch DateJanuary 15, 2008
Tags content-management

Socialthing! is a self-proclaimed “digital life manager” that attempts to centralize various social networking activities into a single dashboard. This includes aggregating content, friendships and conversation.

Additionally, it allows you to post content to multiple sites at once using its status posting tool.

Socialthing screenshot
Above: Screenshot
Uploaded: 8/25/08

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Sources

  1. Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. TechCrunch post on TechStars (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Socialthing! blog (blog.socialthing.com) [edit]
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