Comments on: Yellow Pages for Twitter adds extended biographies http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/01/yellow-pages-for-twitter-adds-extended-biographies/ International technology news, business & culture Thu, 24 May 2012 16:43:27 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Petherick http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/01/yellow-pages-for-twitter-adds-extended-biographies/#comment-367941 David Petherick Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:28:20 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=4905#comment-367941 @Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, I know what you mean. The good news with Twellow is that at least your profile is pre-loaded with the information from your existing twitter profile. But I think there is a big market for an 'OpenProfile' which hooks into all those social networks' APIs and saves you from having to copy your information everywhere, and which updates them when something is changed separately. A sort of super vCard. There is an attempt at something like that - see http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/09/retaggr-has-to-enable-publishers-as-well-as-the-crowd/ but I think a service that manages your profiles centrally will be something a lot of connected individuals would like to use. @Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, I know what you mean.

The good news with Twellow is that at least your profile is pre-loaded with the information from your existing twitter profile.

But I think there is a big market for an ‘OpenProfile’ which hooks into all those social networks’ APIs and saves you from having to copy your information everywhere, and which updates them when something is changed separately. A sort of super vCard.

There is an attempt at something like that – see http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/09/retaggr-has-to-enable-publishers-as-well-as-the-crowd/ but I think a service that manages your profiles centrally will be something a lot of connected individuals would like to use.

]]> By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/01/yellow-pages-for-twitter-adds-extended-biographies/#comment-367940 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:04:31 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=4905#comment-367940 Pfew, I'm 'Profile' tired. I need an OpenId for Profiles: OpenProfile? Then I could just enter ONE profile in ONE place and always point people there. Can you get me that? Pfew, I’m ‘Profile’ tired. I need an OpenId for Profiles: OpenProfile?

Then I could just enter ONE profile in ONE place and always point people there. Can you get me that?

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