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Posted on September 9, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton
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All the Cool Kids Have 'Em: Social Web Profile Aggregation Sites

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Tim Van Damme
I’m not sure if it started with Tim Van Damme but he sure did kick off a trend of new “Social Web Profile Aggregation” sites or social networking profile identity aggregation sites. Can you feel the “buzzwords” through your computer screen, lol. Either way since Tim’s site was created one “Social Web Profile Aggregation” service has launched called Card.ly and now there’s a WordPress theme from John Saddington. Take a look at the WordPress theme below.

Digital Business Card - Profiles

Hat tip to @Corvida who posted John’s WordPress theme on her Posterous site. It’s interesting that John calls his WordPress theme the “The Digital Business Card” vs  a “Social Web Profile Aggregation theme” but since the idea comes from Tim site which looks like a business card, I totally understand.

Back to Card.ly, I’ve blogged about it before here: 3 ways to showcase your social media profiles: Card.ly, DandyiD & Google profiles and since then a few other “Social Web Profile Aggregation” sites have launched such as hi.im. You can see my hi.im profile below.

Hi, I'm - Wayne Sutton

ReallyWho

There’s also chi.mp and Reallywho which that has a goal to be your “Identity Verification for the Social Web” service.

It seems with the explosion of social networks, social media and the social web, the next big thing may be social identity verification and aggregation. Something I’m sure Google is thinking about with Google Profiles and other services such as DandyID, Chi.mp and Reallywho. While these services are great for social web identity verification, they may be a little much for the average user who wants to just setup a cool WordPress site and promote their own social web profiles. If that’s the case then you  may want to give John’s digital business card WordPress theme a try.

Here’s my digital business card theme or Social Web Profile Aggregation Site as I like to call it at FriendWayne.com :)
Wayne Sutton Social Networking Business Card - Profiles

Corvida has one at: OprahOfTheWeb.com
Digital Business Card - Socialize

Jeff Cohen has one at: JeffreyLCohen.com
Jeffrey L. Cohen || Digital Business Card - Profiles

I want to say thanks to Tim for inspiring the idea and to John for creating the WordPress theme.

Do you have a similar website and what are you thoughts on the future social web identity verification?



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  • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

    Hi Wayne,

    What a colorful blog post (so many chicklets)! You’ve really covered a lot of different players with this post. Everything from simple online identity aggregation (showing all your online locations on a single page), digital business card sites (portable contact information), and even a service offering to verify who you are.

    Begin shameless self-promotion: Remarkably, all of the above and more is available with a single service, PeoplePond. It was originally designed to boost every location within your online identity in search results (read search engine optimization) when people searched for you or what you offer. But in a few short months we’ve built out to the point where PeoplePond is now providing personal SEO, online identity verification, authenticating your ownership of social media, blogs, and other online asset locations, and enabling you to push your profile information with free tools such as plugins, apps, APIs, modules, etc.

    /End shameless self-promotion.

    I recommend checking out PeoplePond. We’d welcome your and everyone elses’s feedback here.

    • http://www.peoplepond.com/ Barry Skidmore

      Wayne:

      After setting up your PeoplePond profile you can also use our shortcode services for additional networking.

      Try my SMS Card TXT barryskidmore TO 54445

      It only provides the information I mark as available to you as a contact or globally available to provide that extra layer of security and connection.

      Or to send your VCard directly to a contact via email
      TXT d Email@Domain.Extension

      Or to send your SMS card directly to a contact via SMS
      TXT d PhoneNumber

      Once you get through that we will show you how to use our OAuth Twitter API to share contact information through direct messages between contacts on Twitter too.

  • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

    Hi Wayne,

    What a colorful blog post (so many chicklets)! You’ve really covered a lot of different players with this post. Everything from simple online identity aggregation (showing all your online locations on a single page), digital business card sites (portable contact information), and even a service offering to verify who you are.

    Begin shameless self-promotion: Remarkably, all of the above and more is available with a single service, PeoplePond. It was originally designed to boost every location within your online identity in search results (read search engine optimization) when people searched for you or what you offer. But in a few short months we’ve built out to the point where PeoplePond is now providing personal SEO, online identity verification, authenticating your ownership of social media, blogs, and other online asset locations, and enabling you to push your profile information with free tools such as plugins, apps, APIs, modules, etc.

    /End shameless self-promotion.

    I recommend checking out PeoplePond. We’d welcome your and everyone elses’s feedback here.

    • http://www.peoplepond.com Barry Skidmore

      Wayne:

      After setting up your PeoplePond profile you can also use our shortcode services for additional networking.

      Try my SMS Card TXT barryskidmore TO 54445

      It only provides the information I mark as available to you as a contact or globally available to provide that extra layer of security and connection.

      Or to send your VCard directly to a contact via email
      TXT d Email@Domain.Extension

      Or to send your SMS card directly to a contact via SMS
      TXT d PhoneNumber

      Once you get through that we will show you how to use our OAuth Twitter API to share contact information through direct messages between contacts on Twitter too.

  • http://socialwayne.com/ Wayne Sutton

    Joe, thanks for the comment and I apologize about not including PeoplePond in the list. I remember (now) meeting Theron at PubCon and SXSW and he was telling me about the platform. I think I’m going to write another “online identity aggregation” post soon and will be sure to include it.

  • http://socialwayne.com Wayne Sutton

    Joe, thanks for the comment and I apologize about not including PeoplePond in the list. I remember (now) meeting Theron at PubCon and SXSW and he was telling me about the platform. I think I’m going to write another “online identity aggregation” post soon and will be sure to include it.

  • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

    @Wayne – no worries. It’s all good.

  • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

    @Wayne – no worries. It’s all good.

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  • http://mistersugar.com Anton Zuiker

    Wayne, where’s your ClaimID page?

  • http://socialwayne.com/ Wayne Sutton

    Anton, that’s an oldie but good one… I haven’t visited my ClaimID page in a long time: http://claimid.com/waynesutton I need to update this site asap

  • http://socialwayne.com Wayne Sutton

    Anton, that’s an oldie but good one… I haven’t visited my ClaimID page in a long time: http://claimid.com/waynesutton I need to update this site asap

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  • http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com/ Marcie

    I actually wrote about this in a paper for a class I was taking @ UNC last spring, at the time I it seemed OpenID and all it’s iterations were the the only thing out there:

    http://openid.net/get-an-openid/

    But there seem to be a gaggle of them now…are there any that are totally free for the full verification process?

  • http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com Marcie

    I actually wrote about this in a paper for a class I was taking @ UNC last spring, at the time I it seemed OpenID and all it’s iterations were the the only thing out there:

    http://openid.net/get-an-openid/

    But there seem to be a gaggle of them now…are there any that are totally free for the full verification process?

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    I want to add this as just a page on my regular blog…. is that possible?

    • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

      PeoplePond provides free plugins, modules, etc. for WordPress, Drupal and other blogging platforms that enable you to create a dynamic “About Me” page that contains elements from your PeoplePond profile page. More info at http://www.peoplepond.com/adam.php .

      • http://socialwebtools.info/ ChaCha Fance

        Thank you! Sounds good.

  • http://socialwebtools.info/ ChaCha Fance

    I want to add this as just a page on my regular blog…. is that possible?

    • http://www.peoplepond.com/joebeaulaurier Joe Beaulaurier

      PeoplePond provides free plugins, modules, etc. for WordPress, Drupal and other blogging platforms that enable you to create a dynamic “About Me” page that contains elements from your PeoplePond profile page. More info at http://www.peoplepond.com/adam.php .

      • http://socialwebtools.info/ ChaCha Fance

        Thank you! Sounds good.

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