Social network mess solved or added to?

How many social networks are you on? Me, myself and I hang at facebook, linkedin, plaxo, flickr, twitter, last.fm, del.icio.us and probably a couple more that I have forgotten about. All of them certainly contains slightly different information about me. Typically I update the profile when I first start the account and whatever seemed reasonable to share at the time is included. And then I don't look at the profile ever again. Yet another site called atomkeep solves this problem for us. Create an account, hook it up to all the sites you want and start synchronizing. Pros: all your profile information is managed at one site and then distributed all over the place. Cons: yet another site to keep track of and the integrity question of course. And just maybe I don't want to appear in the same way at linkedin as at facebook. But for basic information like phone numbers and email adresses it will come in handy. I will give it a try and let you know how it works out.

Typealyzer

I just ran this blog through the typealyzer - turns out the the authors of this blog are mechanics (ISTP). No surprise there..... [via homefries.org]

Using freebase

Over a year ago I blogged about freebase - a user driven database with structured data in it. Sort of like wikipedia but with "real" data in it. Since then freebase has opened up to all users and added even more content. Much of the content are imported from other sources so that the user base doesn't have to start from scratch. I played around for a while adding entries about this blog, myself and some more stuff that I was thinking about at the time. Cool but maybe not that useful yet. Now they have announced acre which is a nice and handy way to build web sites on top of freebase. Consider the imdb-like FMDB that uses the comprehensive movie archive of freebase. Nice! Acre is deployed in an hosted environment so developers will be tied deploymentwise to freebase. Lets hope that the same concept might be used on external web sites. The technology used is special tags and attributes that acre hook into to provide data from freebase.