Your Digital Life Aggregated
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on January 23, 2007,
Since you are now reading Profy I can tell for sure that you already have several accounts with various web services. I can bet that you blog on Blogger, share stories from your trips on 43 Places, use iLike to listen to music, share your videos on YouTube and your bookmarks on del.icio.us. I can hardly believe anyone will soon manage to build a mashup large enough to combine all these (and other unmentioned - but still wildly used) services for you to have only one bookmark in your browser. So we can only welcome new useful web services launched daily. But do you ever feel that you have too many profiles and personal content scattered all around the web?
I think that it is almost essential now (or at least will be - and rather soon) to use one (I think here it is preferable to choose only one) "digital life aggregator". And on Sunday one of them was released to public beta - I am talking about Profilactic here. Profilactic was in private beta until Sunday - when we read on their blog that the project was now open for everyone to register.
It works very simply: you choose websites you use from a drop-down menu, specify your usernames for the websites - and Profilactic is now able to aggregate your content from all these websites. In other words, it creates your own mashup. This mashup can be used by your friends to follow your online activities using a single website - instead of visiting various websites. A unique feature is that Profilactic permits you to add friends and follow their online activities using your Friends' Mashup: it collects the content of all Profilactic users you added as your friends.
Currently Profilactic supports 31 websites, including Bebo, digg, MySpace, YouTube and other well-known names. But even if you do not see what you really need, you can always add it here by specifying the website name and URL. The only thing that Profilactic developers want you to keep in mind is that it is still in Beta - so you may well meet some troubles here and there. But that's exactly what the Beta term is intended for, is not it?
