LonelyGirl15 – YooWho, YouWhere?

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on November 05, 2006,


Anywhere. Anytime. Anyone, and Any-name-ity (oops sorry, that should have been anonymity, but I couldn’t resist the wordplay). That’s what the Net offers, especially if you have a WLAN equipped notebook and a Starbucks to sit in. Some like Lonelygirl15, revel in that. But if you want to share, plenty of options – and help.

Findmeon gives you a way to link all your web identities together. Using different names and profiles for email, screennames and IM – especially because someone beat you to it on Myspace, or Gmail? Get your act together here. Their tagline’s great “ The cure for multiple web personality disorder”.

Profilactic promises to do the same. Not yet launched, but expected soon. Couldn’t they have found a better name, though? It sounds like something you’d find being promoted in spam!

Do you travel around extensively? Want to have your friends know where you are at any time? If you have a mobile phone, it isn’t too difficult. Mologogo tracks any GPS enabled cell phone, and offers location based chat – useful if you spot someone interesting across the road, and just want to strike up a conversation…

Plazes is yet another possibility – use your mobile to share your location and any other information about where you are. That’s with everyone in the world.

If you’d rather be more selective, value your privacy, yet want to share with a small group, try out Jumpclaimer instead. Modeled on the old practice of sending postcards from exotic places, and having family stick a pin on a map, yet updated for the times. All you need is your mobile phone and send a short message to whoever you want to share with.

Most of these services rely on the mobile phone, rather than a computer per-se. Reminds me of something I saw on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog : “the majority of the world will use the internet through their phones, not through a PC.”

As he says – Five times the number of people buy a phone each year, as compared to a PC. That’s a lot of social networking.

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