Showing Off Your Digital Identities
Now here’s a widget I’ve been waiting for. Dustin Bachrach’s ShowYourself Widget - which let’s you broadcast and keep track of all your Web 2.0 identities; your MySpace/Facebook profiles, Flickr account, name, etc.
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There are a couple of notable exceptions on the list - the biggest name missing is LinkedIn, a site that’s growing in popularity amongst real estate professionals. The other big one is ActiveRain, though that’s not really a surprise given it has no traction outside of the real estate industry.
ShowYourself is styled to match the MyBlogLog widget, so if you’re running that it should match nicely. You can also customize the colors to match your site. There’s even an option to host the images on your server which will help deal with the sluggishness and slow load times that sometimes comes with running external widgets on your site.
Reigning in your digital identity is a problem that I think about a lot (see Take Control of Your Digital Identity). It seems daily that I’m trying out a new social network or blog (Vox) or some new form of user generated content tool (Twitter, tumblelogs, etc.). Keeping track of all of them is a huge headache, and invariably some fall by the wayside.
Having a centralized location to gather and store all the data I publish (photos, videos, blog posts) as well aggregating all my profile and contact information from all of these sites, is something I find is currently missing. Something like a Web 2.0 whitepages or digital business card.
How are you dealing with all your digital identities?
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- From Tell Ten Friends» Blog Archive » Very Cool New Widget Alert: Show Yourself! | Mar 14, 2007
- From ShowYourself Widget » BuzzTracker | Mar 17, 2007
Dustin Bachrach | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
Hi, great post!
I just added LinkedIn, myblog and friendster. So hopefully that’s resolving the issue. I am also working on developing a “Other” row so you can fill in new sites and it will pull the favicon.
Drew M from Zillow | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
Joel-
This is pretty cool — I’ll probably try it out in the next day or so. I’m surprised it’s not on your sidebar already :).
I know Ziki is trying to do this same type of thing (my ziki - http://www.ziki.com/people/drewmeyers), but I don’t think they have a widget that will enable them to spread WOM quickly.
Jonathan Greene | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
Yes, but then the whole world would know that my myspace handle is “Mister Wiggles.” That could get ugly.
Joel Burslem | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
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Incredible Agent | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
leoJ,
Very cool little widget. That should come in useful. Thanks for the heads up.
Mister Wiggles, I would probably keep that private too.
Arlingtgon Virginia Condos -- Jay | Mar 13, 2007 | Reply
Still trying to figure out what a widget is and where I put it…but I know it’s a great idea as I’m getting confused remembering the different networks I’m on and what I’m posting….
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Jordan | Mar 14, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the tip, Joel. I’m sure I’ll have this live in no time, and i can finally keep track of where I am!
I presume it supports facebook, upcoming.org, ma.gnolia, too? I’ll have to try to remember what other profiles I have out there…
Runa | Mar 15, 2007 | Reply
For me this widget is very useful!