Kazle. (http://www.kazle.com)

Kazle is a Multi-Networking Aggregation Platform.

In simple terms, yes we’re a Social Network but we do, however integrate nicely with many other networks to create a nifty, super simple “Social Networking Hub”.
Social Hub?

A Social Networking Hub is a place on the interwebz that you can come to update and view everything from all your Social Networks in one.

For example, if you want to update both your Facebook and Twitter status at the same time then also view Feeds from both of these networks, Kazle is very useful for you.
Don’t have many Networks to update?

That’s okay, there’s still plenty of reasons to use Kazle. We’re a fully functional Social Network all on our own. The best part is, we’re going about things slightly differently to everyone else and entirely powered by user content, opinions and ideas.

That’s right. We’re the good guys, the ones that listen to our users. We’re going to take all ideas on board and we also aim to offer support at a personal level. hey, why not put Twitter and Kazle’s own Mailbox system to good use, eh?

Another thing you might like is the usability factor we offer here at Kazle. Lots of other Networks like Facebook and Myspace have quickly become overweight with content and features. We hope to keep Kazle as lightweight and easy to use as possible so that it’s never going to become tiresome to use.
Wondering why you haven’t heard of us before now?

Kazle is but a baby in the world of Social Networking. As a new site, we obviously do have a rather long way to go but, like any journey, we’re hoping it’s going to be as fun filled as possible.

Description of the term “Kazle” from UrbanDictionary.com: Kazle: social multi-tasking. to update, view, edit and aggregate all your social networks, blogs and gaming platforms from one place. Example: “I need to quickly notify all of my contacts and friends of what just happened, let me just kazle that.”

How K. A. is it?

Kazle is a brand new site, similar to ones that I’ve seen recently that allow you to update pretty much any of your Facebook/Twitter/Flickr updates all with one click of the button. Now in theory, this sounds amazing and sounds like it would be easy to use and save you tons of time, but in reality, as you can see below, when I first clicked on Twitter it just sat there for a good five minutes before it did anything.

Overall, I don’t think this is a bad product, and I probably could have used it a little more to see it’s full potential. But at the end of the day, my main thought was that I feel that as Americans we have lost the idea of patience and have this weird desire to need things done quickly and right now, when sometimes the “better” thing is to take your time and just do things one at a time.

Rating: 3 out of 5

Yahoo! Sideline. (http://sideline.yahoo.com/)

Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest. Watch a video demonstration.

Sideline is an open source application released under the BSD license. The first beta release is out and the code is hosted on github. If you experience difficulties with the Flash “Install” badge on this site you can find the manual download here.

Follow Sideline on Twitter.

How K. A. is it?

This product has been amazing for me so far. Before, for Twitter, I was using a program called Tweetbeep (http://www.tweetbeep.com), which has been great so far for me, but there’s only an option to receive updates either every hour or every day. Well, I was finding out receiving an e-mail every hour was filling up my inbox rather quickly, and every day was too far apart.

Once I downloaded this, and set it up (which was super easy to do) then I was able to get “live” updates on different keywords I have set up. And I’ve been able to check them when i want to check them and the program can be open in the background and not taking away from anything.

Rating: 5 out of 5