If you're like me, there may be a small group of online friends who you can connect with each social network and you have you become a little like an online family. If Yes, that applies to you, then the Geeje is the ideal tool to help you keep up with the closest online friends.
The concept is quite simple. First, you can create a profile of your friend and then add feeds that apply to them. Do not think that the word "Feeds" like blog feeds if, also applies to social networking profiles. Best of all, you don't need an actual RSS feed to follow. You can simply enter the URL of your blog or social network profile that you want to keep up with and Geeje will do the rest.
Geeje keeps you know, is a noticeboard for close friends and people you follow is to stay connected with people that interest you.
The first is to create a profile for each one of your friends. This is done, I guess, by clicking "add to profile" from the top of your dashboard. You must enter here is a name (real name or nickname will do).
Then, you will need to add URLs to your friends ' profiles by clicking the "Add feed" at the top of the dashboard. As mentioned above, here is the URL of your blog or your friend's profiles (although an RSS feed will work too). You will have to add each one separately, so depending on how many URLs you have for each friend that could take awhile.
The last step is to add to your profile dashboard (where you can keep all your friends at once). This is done by clicking on the "D" which will appear on the right of the names of your friends when you scroll up in the sidebar of the Tableau.
Once you add all the desired profile to your dashboard, you will see that each friend will have their own widgets and widget displays all your feeds together (instead of separately, as in the profile).
This step should be for interaction, but this is not possible within Geeje (not yet anyway). You cannot make any interaction, but you can click on links or icons to go to the original source and interacting there.
Another way to set up your dashboard may be to create a profile on a social network that you want to keep up with, rather than for individual friends.
For example, you could have one profile named Twitter, another called Facebook and another called Google. Then in Twitter could add any URL to your friends so that all Twitter updates will appear within the same widget on your dashboard.
This method allows you to see all the updates from a single source with its own widget, rather than the gross of all.
Finally, let's not forget about the search feature. At the moment seems to allow you to search for profiles or services that you might have added. It would be nice if you could actually search for keywords within your friends updates, but perhaps that is coming soon ….
Personally, I like Geeje because it makes it really easy for me to my circle of friends with thick online. I wish there were slightly more features – primarily a way to interact without leaving the site. However, it is now functional enough to do the work that needs to be done.
What are your thoughts?
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