Month: June 2007

Playing with MyLifeBrand

mylifebrand-logo.gifUpdate, June 13, 2007: After playing around with the site a bit more, I discovered that you can add more than three social networking sites into your profile.

In last week’s Friday Five I pointed to a TechCrunch review of MyLifeBrand, a social networking utility (and yet another social network, in and of itself) that lets users aggregate social networking memberships and navigate between them from a single place. I was intrigued, so I applied for membership in MyLifeBrand Alpha and to my surprise was immediately accepted.

So far, all I’ve done with the site is create the space where I can access my top three four social networks (Facebook, MyRagan, and LinkedIn and MySpace). This could be a good solution for anyone managing multiple social networks. The Alpha version only allows you to place up to three several social networks on a page, and you have to go to the “snapshot” view to input and view them.

But how many of them have a favorite blogger?

Stat of the day: 56 percent of Americans can name a favorite news person compared to 65 percent two decades ago, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

newspersonalities.gifBack in the day, “the top picks were representatives of the big three broadcast television networks.” These days, however, “only a slim majority can name the journalist they admire most and the preferences are far more scattered. Reflecting the myriad choices news consumers have today, the top 10 journalists named by the public are drawn from the networks, cable news channels, public television and even Comedy Central.”

The chart on the right compares the choices from then and now.