Disqus
Okay, let’s face it: there are people in your social networks you just want to mute sometimes. Inane tweets, stupid Facebook status updates, or a continual influx of devilishly entertaining links distracting you from doing something productive. On the flip side, sometimes you want to be on be on the pulse of things and just want to hear it all. Well, this neat little address book app for iPhone called Orbit has an ingenious feature called Social Volume which lets you do just that.
At its core, Orbit aims to handle all of the native personal information management tasks under one roof – e-mail, phone, text, and social networking. The way Social Volume works is that you can adjust the frequency of updates from user-specified groups of contacts and specific types of updates. An “Inner Orbit” group lets you handle your top-priority contacts separately, along with being able to optionally populate the address book through Facebook.
I’d really like to see Trillibis plug multimedia social networks like last.fm and Flickr into their app, but in the end, I just really like the idea of Social Volume. It strikes me as a real poignant and natural thing for someone to do on their social networks; “I don’t hate you, but please, please, just shut up for a little while.” Free iPhone and BlackBerry apps will be arriving before the end of the year, with Android following shortly thereafter in 2010.
[via Trilibis]
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
