One Super Profile

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Having a single place to go to see all of your profiles can help you and those with whom you connect. A "Super Profile", if you will. I have started with a Google Profile* and have set up a Retaggr** profile.

• Here's my Google Profile: www.google.com/profiles/erich13
• An here are my Retaggr Page, Card, and Click-to-add-me links.

Are there any other super profiles out there?

my retaggr card

* "Once you create your profile, Google will automatically suggest links to some of the Google products you currently use", but for non-Google products, you are required that you know your various account profiles throughout the web

** Retaggr gives you a long list of suggested social sites for which you may have an account.

Twitter is microblogging, right?

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Twitter is microblogging, right?

But what does that mean, and is it entirely accurate? Is Twitter a fad? What sets Twitter apart?

• Per Wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter...
  • Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
• In my opinion...
• Twitter breaks down the hierarchy (e.g. you can tweet directly to the author of something, to give feedback)
• Twitter is a hybrid amongst chat/IM, feedback, news, marketing, and status (with public and private history).
• Twitter is not email.
• Twitter is dipping into the watercooler, to snatch a bit of thought (ideas), humor, or new things that you haven't heard of.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Twitter should be flattered that Facebook's makeover aligned its functionality and appearance to that of Twitter. And BTW, I have feed my Twitter feed into my Facebook update stream, using the Facebook | Twitter app.

If you don't already have a Twitter account, you can join for free.

For more about Twitter, see cli.gs/my-about-twitter.

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