This is something that annoys me as much as it does Zachary. Content Silos.
I’m wary of putting my data into other people’s servers. I’ve seen them fail, I’ve seen them disappear with other people’s data and I’ve seen the fallout it can cause.
Why is Momentile going to be any different to Friendfeed or Brightkite or any of these other services which are vying to be our biographers? We see the use of having an automated chronicler, but is it worth it when we’re just creating pipelines to automatically populate these various services from one source. I update Twitter and my blogs. They in turn update Facebook, FriendFeed, laconi.ca and any of the other daft services I’ve signed up to. The repetition is pointless and you end up dissolving your message into a dozen different streams.
What would make me use one over another? Quite simply- heartshare.
We (Momentile) agree with you completely. Isolated content silos suck.
It’s our intention to build a fun and simple service that plays well with others.
With that being said, I think a lot of people have the misconception that Momentile is just another “social” startup biz.
We’re not trying to be like Brightkite of Friendfeed and we’re definitely not vying to be anyone’s biographer. Momentile is just a project by myself (design) and Brett Duncavage (code), that we started for fun. The site is developed on nights and weekends when we’re not spending time with our families. We pay for the servers and hosting out of our own pockets. We do this because we love making things and it’s fun for us.
Momentile currently integrates with Twitter and Facebook. We have a lot of ideas and our users have been making excellent suggestions. We plan on implementing most of them, it just takes time. Hopefully you will give Momentile a shot at winning your heartshare.
Thanks.