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Profilactic Aggregates Your Online Profiles

Michael Zhang · October 27, 2006

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With so many social networking services on the Internet, keeping track of them can become tedious. Profilactic hopes to solve that problem by aggregating all the information you need from any social network that provides you with a URL or RSS feed.

The idea of having every contribution you make to various websites (YouTube, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Facebook, etc...) come together on a single page sounds like a great idea. People could definitely use the organization, and it would be similar to way people automatically mirror their Del.icio.us bookmarks onto their personal blogs.

The service will be launching into private beta sometime this Fall, and is collecting email addresses from people interested in participating. I believe a key to this service being successful is how much freedom users will have with their aggregated content. Instead of having the mashup of personal content confined to Profilactic, they could develop a way to periodically post mashup entries onto various blog publishing systems and services.

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Comments

smorty71 on October 28, 2006 5:58 AM

Michael:
We will indeed provide our users with a mechanism for posting their content to their blog, website or MySpace page.

We will have HTML "badges" for their list of online profiles and for your mashup.

I see the badges as the best way for us to get the word out about Profilactic (i.e. people will see the badges on other sites and want one for themselves).

sm

thomas on October 28, 2006 6:59 PM

This sounds like a wonderful idea. I'm just hoping that aside from badges, an internal API will be available as well, that would allow for further proliferation of info from social bookmarking sites into something like 4th-party mashables. It'd be also interesting if feeds from social network sites could also be incorporated.

Joe on October 28, 2006 7:44 PM

Check out the get a badge section...
"add profilactic your blog"

Shouldn't that read:
"add profilactic TO your blog"????

john doe on October 28, 2006 11:20 PM

Great tool ... for consumer analysts and NSA

smorty71 on October 29, 2006 7:45 AM

Crap! You're right, Joe. Nice catch. I'll fix that now.

Jonathan Vanasco on October 29, 2006 3:31 PM

Check out FindMeOn.com

already does many of this!

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