Inifinite.ly Alpha -- a social media monitoring tool or website builder?

Excited to receive the invite to infinite.ly Alpha. Before websites / applications become popular and mainstream, they always go through the Alpha, pre-Alpha version. I guess it's owkei to say it's when they are at their ugly stage, it's before celebrities get into tons of physical enhancements, it's before they are flooded with blingbling. I love to see application in their alpha stage because really it is more exciting, it's when they are the roughest.

I'm quite awed at how powerful their Builder feature can be. It makes creating a web site / portal easy with inline editing and drag-and-drop capabilities. This will definitely come handy to those not-so-adept at tweaking html and css like me. There are few kinks  but still I feel this web application looks like more than Alpha.

Since not all can access the infinite.ly Alpha version yet, following are some screenshots of what you can expect from it.

Welcome

Right after creating an account, you will get the infinite.ly's welcome, where they will also provide you with a step-by-step process on how to set-up your infinite.ly account.

Dashboard

I could feel a Luis Buenaventura's signature look and feel in the dashboard. If you have used some applications created by SyndeoLabs, you can see that similarities in the look and feel. (Note: I don't infinite.ly this is from SyndeoLabs.)

Managing Keywords & Social Networks

Inside the application, there's a BUZZ tab. This is where you can add the social networks you want to monitor. For now, you can add and monitor Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, and Youtube. I believe there will be more coming, but I guess these 6 social sites are more than enough.

Then, you can add the keywords you want to monitor. For example, you are interested about people talking about Justin Bieber, Kpop, and Usher because you are selling posters, merchants, music of these artists. So you want to find the people talking about it who you can engage with, and share your items with them.

Analytics

You can check here your popularity. You can find here if the number of people tweeting about Justin Bieber increases or decreases. If you have launched a promo or twitter hashtag, you can monitor the progress or for lack of thereof. 

Publisher


This is where you can blast updates to all the networks attached to your infinite.ly account.

Builder

This is where you can design your infinite.ly's public web view / portal. When I got to this feature, I kind of double check if infinite.ly is just a social media monitoring tool or a website builder. You can actually build a pretty website from infinite.ly's builder feature. If you are technically challenged person like me, infinite.ly's Builder drag-and-drop and inline editing feature makes putting up your web portal easy. (I kinda notice Luis or his team is fond of drag-and-drop.)

So you can easily customize the look of your site without having to deal with html and css.

Public View 

I created a portal that displays people talking about Justin Bieber, Usher, and KPop in infinite.ly. So if I want to have a bird's eyeview of talks about these 3, I can simply take a quick a look at my infinite.ly.

See, you can easily find people to whom you can sell your Justin Bieber, Usher, KPop stuff, or simply someone you can talk with about your music idols.

Infinite.ly are co-founded by Luis Buenaventura, Hunter Nield, and Yoram Heller.You can check the rest of the team at team.infinite.ly -- Evan Sagge, Mae Paulino, Kindred Pasana, Neil Decapia, and Radamanthus Batnag.

Get an invite at infinite.ly, and check if it's a social monitoring tool, a website builder, or both? You can check here as to how I can personally use infinite.ly. Check here if you are interested.