Soup.io –> Microblogger or Content Aggregator

Soup.io is a great new web app coming out of the YEurope oven. In short its a little bit of microblogging mixed up content aggregation from other sites such as flickr, twitter, delicious, and in my case Wordpress.com (there’s more take a look).

There’s already some chat in the blogosphere comparing it’s microblogging features to twitter and pownce.Soup.io lacks the immediacy of twitter and its desktop & SMS entrypoints, but that’s ok by me.Soup.io to me is a wonderful way to aggregate the content that I’m producing through various web apps, which I would consider “best-of-breed” or more likely “works-best-for-me”.

My flickr stream gets mashed up with my tweets and delicious discoveries – all wrapped around with my rather wordy ramblings on Wordpress and presented by to the world via either a nicely templated website or a singular RSS feed.The “cherry on top” is the ability to point a domain such as www.ijonas.com at soup.io and all of a sudden, all of that content is presented through single page on the web.

Once again, open standards are enabling production as well as consumption of content on the internet. In this case I can try out any RSS-enabled service such as Pownce, take the RSS feed my content generates and wire it into my soup.io page. If I stop using the Pownce service, no problem… my soup.io mashups lives on.

So to me soup.io serves me better as aggregator than a microblogging tool. I’m a little confused by their offering of functions that allow you to post messages, pictures, and videos… IMHO the soup.io developers should expand on the site’s ability to aggregate content from more sources and improve the already great look-and-feel customisation/templating features.

soup.io –> recommended!