Sociable Brings All Of Your Favorite Social Networks Together On The iPad

The guys at return7 are probably best known for the bill tracking iPhone app BillMinder, but they have dabbled in social networking before with Blipr and were relatively successful.  Instead of trying to create a new social networking app for the iPad, however, the team decided to bring five established networks together in one app titled Sociable. Sociable is a client that brings together Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, and Reddit, all on your new iPad.  The app allows you to log in to as many different accounts as you wish, and manage them all from a single, easy to use interface. The left side bar is a list of networks that you can customize to suite your specific needs.  For example, you can add multiple Twitter accounts and toggle between them, view a specific Digg category, jump between Flickr accounts, and basically mold the app after your social networking needs. Sociable's supported networks and abilities include:

• Facebook - Read, update your status, like posts, comment on posts, view and comment on photos, and write on walls. (Facebook mail is not currently supported.)
• Twitter - Supports multiple Twitter accounts. Tweet, read your timeline, retweet, reply, view locations, view profiles, and search.  (Doesn't support direct messages at this time.)
• Flickr - View recent photos, friends' photos, comment on photos, and view photos full-screen and swipe to pan through.
• Digg - Digg stores, sort by topic, and view popular, upcoming, top, and hot articles.
• Reddit - View hot, new, top, and controversial Reddits, and view full articles inside of the built-in browser.

return7 intends to add even more social networks and features to the app via updates. If you simply can't stop social networking, Sociable may at least help make your addiction easier on you.  It's now available in the App Store for $4.99, but you will have to wait until tomorrow to use it.

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