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beyond web 2.0

Social networking unified identity

With many people having more than 1 web ‘Identity’ it gets difficult to keep all the data in sync. You may have your LinkedIn profile for business, your Myspace page for showing your personality to friends, your pictures on Flickr, etc….

Imagine a single site where you store all of your photos, emails addresses, personal information, etc.. instead of many. Then you go to this site and update your information in 1 place and then the individual sites pull from this source. Maybe you have a unique private key, biometric authorization, it doesn’t matter. It’s all about solving a real problem and making an easy to use site that provides a real service. The issue will be getting the big web 2.0 companies to let go of their hold on your data and start pulling from the central location. It would help them save money in the long run (reduced storage costs) but also potentially cost them eyeballs as you would not need to login to them to update your information.

This ’site’ would need to be very secure and assure the user community that their data is safe, but it is doable. I’ve got my business that on here but wouldn’t every large web 2.0 site looking for more users want to advertise on this site? And given the traffic wouldn’t there be ample opportunity to make even more advertising revenue?

A few good blogs postings on this topic:

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/06/critical-mass-and-social-network-fatigue/

http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/12/do-we-really-want-to-aggregate-identiy

spokeo.com [web 2.0 review]

I was waiting for a site to come along and help me stay up on all my friends and the changes to their personal pages and blogs.

Spokeo checks on your friends to see who’s favorited new videos on Youtube, uploaded photos to MySpace, or blogged on Blogger. Spokeo tracks friends for you, so you won’t miss an update. These are words from Spokeo.com but I couldn’t have said it better myself.

This technology will allow you to stay connected with anyone using any of the top blogging or Social Networking sites out there including:

Needless to say, there will be more sites added to track in Spokeo and new capabilities added to Spokeo as well, so this site is one to watch!

spokeo.com

gotjeela? rating: 3/5

cofoundr.com [web 2.0 review]

We just visited cofoundr.com and found it to be a Web 2.0 site connecting Entrepreneurs, Investors, Designers, Developers and Business Development Experts. I signed up and was able to create a profile and be online fairly quickly. There is a section for posting ideas that you would like feedback on and site members can comment and critique. I can see the value in getting objective opinions given my experience launching several startups in the past….

I liked this site though it appears to be new and the number of registered site visitors low. There is definitly room out there for LinkedIn competitors but more features need to be built into the system or repeat visitor traffic will be low (IMHO).

cofoundr.com

gotjeela? rating: 2/5

parkwhiz.com [web 2.0 review]

I recently sat through a presentation by Jon from datawhiz.com at the Hatchery event in NY. This is a well thought out concept and implementation of a system to allow parking garages and individuals to list their parking spots for rent for the day/evening.  Consider a concert is happening near by and there is a parking shortage, just go on this easy to use website and list your spot for rent. A site user can go on and search for parking near the zip code or address and the results will be shown in both a tabular and map format. You can also search within a time range and when the results are shown, filter by ‘Walking time to Destination’ and price.

Possible parking spots are highlighted on the map and you can pick and choose by locality and price to pick the one you want. There is also the concept of rating the parking vendors so that users will be informed about the past experiences at that location.

Overall, very cool site that I can see myself using when I go into NY for an event or concert. The site is easy to use with a Web 2.0 feel that will be embraced by those living in or near a big city.

datawhiz.com

gotjeela? rating: 3/5