Are you scattered all over the social internet, with accounts and friends on many sites? Finding it hard to keep up? Friendbinder, an application by Richard Cunningham that we found in the App Garden, can help! When you authorize Friendbinder, a web-based app, on your social networks, it fetches the most recent updates from your friends and puts it all right in front of you.

We love the Flickr integration a lot: when your contacts upload or favorite photos, it shows you a handful of them and beautifully displays them in a lightbox, with links to the photo pages so that you can comment and fave them. You can also see your photos and tweets on a map! The left sidebar surfaces activity directed at you, be that comments on your Flickr photos or @ replies from Twitter.

Got no time to scan what’s up with everyone everywhere, but want to catch up quickly with Flickr contacts? Then you’ll want to try Aaron Straup Cope’s Flickr for Busy People. It’s a simple web application that displays a list of your Flickr contacts who have uploaded photos in the last 30 minutes, two hours, four hours and eight hours.

What else is growing in the App Garden that can help you manage your contacts?

Applications by Friendbinder and straup.