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A Profile on Profiles

Submitted by Kentnewsome from blog

Aug 25, 2009

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During the podcast the other night, Dave and I talked a little about public, online profiles. We experimented a little with our Google Profiles, and wondered about the best way to create and manage a central profile. The idea is to create and manage something approximating an online card and short biography. I've done some more thinking about it and here's what I've concluded.

Assumptions

First, a couple of assumptions. Like every other part of our online lives, the sheer number of locations where you can create and maintain a profile can lead to dilution and/or a Sisyphean task of trying to keep everything reasonably fresh and current. For that reason, I decided I to create one central profile page, and then link to it from the various locations where I maintain a presence. I'm already spread too thin as far as the so-called social networks go, so I don't want to add another service just to manage a profile page. For example, I have an abandoned a Linkedin account. While Linkedin may be (but probably isn't) the coolest thing since Doug Sahm, over t

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