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Why complicate signing in to different sites, when you can have all of your online accounts in one nest?
The Web has gone social. Everyone is almost always connected with friends, families, contacts, networks online. Recent developments in the Web applications show that the trend now is the portability of online data. In our previous posts, we talked about Spokeo, and the 30boxes that track about our social activities online.
And now, there’s Readr, and Mugshot.
Readr.com supports 20 profiles in 1 site. It supports the following Web applications. Just enter your usernames for each of your accounts and the site tracks all your latest updates.
* Myspace
* Bebo
* Flickr
* Photobucket
* Blogger
* Multiply
* Friendster
* Hi5
* WordPress
* Livejournal
* Twitter
* Jaiku
* Facebook
* Digg
* del.icio.us
* Google Reader
* StumbleUpon
* YouTube
* last.fm
* Picasa
* Amazon
Signing up at Mugshot is easy. Just enter your email address and you’ll be given a link to verify it, then you can customize your profile. Mugshot has this love-hate feature. By clicking the “love it” button, you have to enter your account (for that specific supported site by Mugshot, e.g., Flickr, LinkedIn, etc), where your updates could be viewed by your Mugshot’s friends. OR you can click the “hate it” button to let people know why you’re not using a certain Web application. I don’t see much logic here for this love-hate feature. I may be using a certain Web app, but it doesn’t mean I love it or I stopped using it because I hate it.
But the good thing with Mugshot, you can see the tabs for active people and active groups. Mugshot has also a downloadable desktop software, but I prefer Web-based apps. I refrain from downloading software version.
So the point here is that, the Web is now portable. If you’re a social fish like me who likes to glide in every new social media application or Web application out there, the tendency is to create various accounts to try them on. With so much accounts to handle, it would be a bit cumbersome, right? So the idea to house all online accounts is indeed great! Choose which site you want to use – Spokeo (where you can track all of your friends’ online accounts without them knowing about it), Readr (20profiles in 1), 30boxes (where you have a great organizer of your schedule), and Mugshot.
There’s Plaxo and FriendFeed (currently in private beta).
There are many more sites following this trend of Web portability. I wonder what’s next. I think – a global email that let’s you post to all of your online accounts!
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