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No, not RSS feeds. I’m talking about social feeds like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Fred Wilson’s post on feeds got me thinking. He talks about letting marketing into social feeds through accessible APIs by the networks. I’m not opposed the idea providing that there is interactive, relevant content associated with the marketing – something that grabs my interest and I might actually want to interact with.

While services like Friendfeed and Plaxo have been aggregating feeds from these social networking services, what about the other side of the coin? Let’s say that I have multiple social networking accounts: Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook. How do I update my status on all three of these? I’d have to login into each and every one of those and paste my update individually. Time consuming and impractical. What about online mavens that use 6 or 7 services, and all support status updates?

I have accounts on quite a few social networks and I don’t remember more than half of them. I’m sure that I’d be able to leverage them more if I can go to a single service that can send out my status to all of these networks without me actually having to log in to all of them which can take 20-30 minutes.

I think the time has come to think of a solution. Maybe then I’d actually use Twitter.