Review: LifeIO.com

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’ve been swamped with the first weeks of school.

I recently got my beta invite to LifeIO after missing my opportunity on TechCrunch to get one. LifeIO is basically an one stop shop for everything online concerning your calender, social sites, web IM and much more.

I found LifeIO to be useful in someways, I don’t know if it’s just me, but i did not really find the LifeIO interface to be all that great. It feels very claustrophobic with different information everywhere and the news feeds quickly scrolling up and down on the right hand column. I found the IM capabilities to be decent, but still can’t compete with such services such as Meebo. The Social Network tab was also quite limited giving you only Facebook wall posts and the usual simple Twitter feed. The Shopping feature is very basic and not very functional, they might want to scrap that one. The only features that I found fairly useful was the Calender and the To-do List which can be easily replicated with an add on to a web mail client. Finally the LifeIO email reader, it’s very unorganized and could really use account separation boxes and a bit more “flashy” graphics to make it pleasing to the normal consumer.

In truth, LifeIO is still in beta with a small amount of users, but I would recommend that they greatly simplify their interface making it similar to the Asus EEE Pc Linux operating system in a way, large Icons with good functionality and more graphics.  Otherwise LifeIO is still a decent service that is worth checking out.

You can visit them here.