So you are a complete social networker – use Gmail for Emailing your friends, enjoy Blogging, have a Flickr account, you are active in myspace too, and 24*7 you are seen chatting with your friends in Y!/GTalk.
Don’t you feel like as if you are suffering from identity crisis/multiple web personality disorder? I mean you will probably have different login ids for these sites and different name handles too. And you are supposed to remember all that! To add to the pity, your friends have to remember all your ids too!
Well, to your relief is a site called findmeon.com – It’s not a social network, nor is a wiki.
Its a simple application which helps you to manage your network of social networks.
How does it work?
At the core of FindMeOn is a web-badge system that is used to display links to your various identities and syndicate information onto them. FindMeOn.com acts as both an identity abstractor ( your identities point to unique links at FindMeOn.com, which then links them together as you wish — not to a central identity ) and a central management system.
In short, you can select the application handle/logins that you want to share with your friends and to display your complete identity, you just need to show up the badge.
The product has good reporting/statistical capabilities too – one can track how many people flipped between different sites and which of your web identities are more popular etc.
Pretty neat concept I must say. Now I can go ahead and start creating account for the cool new web 2.0 social networking sites and have my friends catch up with me.
How about you?
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Also see: Bypass site registration – use prevalidated logins!
I played around with findmeon earlier today actually before seeing your article – and while it has a point – part of that can be substantiated through common identies – my problem I’m running into is how to archive all the data and RSS feeds properly in a usable format for the future – all of this data in so many place – in a world where sites can vanish in a blink is not good.
I do use suprglu – but yet I want more and most RSS feed readers or stream creators only go so far back so I can’t archive older data. In short I’m screwed.
There is a place for findmeon – but once they get past beta and make it easier to use such as adding all the big social sites in the list form the beginning and doing support for each that way instead of you coming up with all the information yourself.
For the die hard web 2.0 person this isn’t too difficult – but if my mom doesn’t have a chance forget it – it needs more polish.
Creeva
Great point. How about trying out Grazr? Though it may not solve your problem, but you can organize feeds in a better way..
Or how about using Onfolio? You can store your feeds in hard-disk which means you can easily backup older data.