Category: Internet and web

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.

Friday Five: 23 minutes till lunchtime edition

Contextless links on a Friday morning:

  1. answering emails/ Video chatting on skype/How ridiculous. That’s just one example — my own — of the latest literary rage, Twitterku. That’s hiaku created from found Twitter texts. Via Boing Boing. (Being a non-Twitterer — or non-Twit, as I prefer — I had to go to the Twitter website to get my TwitterKu text.)
  2. No. 11: Doing a Friday Five when your stomach is growling. When is blogging a waste of time? 10 nasty examples.
  3. So many social networks … so little time. Struggling to manage all your social networks? MyLifeBrand may be your savior. The service lets users aggregate all their social networks and navigate between them from one place. TechCrunch reviews the service. It sounds promising.
  4. A Second Life for higher ed is the topic of Karine Joly‘s latest column for University Business. She plans to post interviews she conducted for this column on her blog in a couple of days.
  5. Seven alternatives to Wikipedia. Students of the world, rejoice! No longer do you have to rely solely on Wikipedia for your research papers. Via David Weinberger.

It is now 11:59. Time for lunch.