Quick Pitch: Arktan enables you to segment your aggregate digital activity by topics, mix, curate, share and re-publish it and discover your friends' activity.
Genius Idea: There are lots of content aggregators but very few ways to easily segment your content into interest groups or channels. Arktan is designed to make it possible to aggregate not just your existing social media data and profiles (like bookmarking lists, photos and Twitter feeds), but to easily add that information from your friends into specific channels too.
Although the service is very early stage, the idea behind Arktan has a lot of potential. For instance, I created a Mashable Peeps channel containing the Twitter feeds for some of my Mashable colleagues (it isn't complete yet). I could have also added in their Delicious or Last.fm or Flickr feeds too, as long as I had their username and the content was public.
What I really appreciate is that I am able to add in my friends streams without forcing them to sign up for an account. If I want to follow some of my family's Flickr accounts, Twitter updates and maybe some blog posts -- but all in one group -- I don't want to have to rely on them to sign up for the service. That doesn't mean they might not get added value fro Arktan -- the ability to comment on items your various channels is pretty cool -- but it is nice that that isn't a requirement.
Arktan is still evolving -- there are some user interface inconsistencies and I had a difficult time adding some types of accounts -- but I like where this is headed. There are so many services focused on content creation and aggregation, it's nice to see a service designed for better organization and segmentation.
How do you keep up with various types of web content and streams?
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