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? ;-)
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
Posted by: Todd Sampson | February 22, 2008 at 01:11 AM
[nodding vigorously]
Posted by: Ian Kennedy | February 22, 2008 at 07:26 AM