Love the MyBlogLog "About Me" widget! And more on activity streams.

In case you haven't been keeping track, the fine folks at MyBlogLog have been working on some pretty cool things recently. This afternoon, I was playing with my MyBlogLog profile. This brought me to their new About Me widget (its actually at least 2 months old, so yeah, I am slow). This is exactly what I had been looking for - a simple widget that can display who I am on the services I use across the web. It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to get the widget colors to somewhat match with this blog, but here it is (as of Feb 21, 2008):

Note that the About Me widget isn't the only benefit I get out of listing my services on MyBlogLog. I am eagerly looking forward to the activity aggregation/lifestreaming/activity streams functionality that they are going to release in the near future. 

Now, it would be even cooler if I could optionally also verify all of my identities above, without providing my ID and password for each service. I wonder if any open technologies can be leveraged for this purpose. Wait! How about this one or maybe this one? ;-)

Comments

[Todd Sampson]

Thanks for the great post Shreyas!

Glad you like the About Me widget. Manny knocked that one our after I asked for it when launching my new blog. Being lazy and wanting to enter that information only once has it's advantages.

As I am sure you know, the entire MyBlogLog team completely agrees with you on the verification. Anything you (and Allen Tom) can do to help make that happen will be greatly appreciated. ;)

Again, thanks for the post. We really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Todd

[Ian Kennedy]

[nodding vigorously]