Sneak peek at Strings: A social tracker with a twist  A new
social tracking tool called Strings lets you share and track
activity from other people online, then get recommendations for
things you might like.  This week we got a sneak peek at a new
social tracking site that's launching a little later this year.
Called Strings, it's made up of tools that let you passively
share your various on- and offline activities with others
online, all in the hopes of both getting and giving
recommendations from its online community.  In many ways Strings
feels a lot like FriendFeed. For example, just like FriendFeed
you're able to tie Strings into to various services you're using
like Amazon, Netflix, and social-bookmarking tools so that it
can implicitly share information about what you're doing on each
of those services with others. And like FriendFeed, this
information can be tracked and filtered depending on what type
of content it is, and what group of friends it's coming from.
Where it differs though, is that this