Gallery of default anonymity: A work in progress. NOTE (MARCH 25, 2012): I’m not really updating this post anymore. These days I’m blogging at Design Observer. Please go there to see what I’m up to these days. Thanks. EBay Facebook Flickr Hotmail Twitter YouTube Friendfeed Just a few that occurred to me. Or has someone already gathered these up somewhere? UPDATE: I opened the comments, they were closed by mistake. LastFM CarDomain.com Goodreads (female) Goodreads (male) Garageband MySpace Tumblr Yahoo!
Skype Topix Google Accounts BlipFM Vimeo Momentile Identica rejaw Yammer Brightkite Posterous ThisNext StyleFeeder StumbleUpon Famegame.com Bikespace.net Yelp Dailymotion, female Dailymotion, male Dailymotion, gender neutral LiveJournal BerlinerStrassen SB*Nation The Knot Funny Or Die Cracked.com Joystiq Talking Points Memo Sleeq (male) Sleeq (female) IMDb Spatula Of Death Hi5 (female) Hi5 (male) Chess.com NPR.com Plinky Digg Yay! Tribe Gravatar WOWinsider Infield Parking MeiLin Miranda Gmail Netflix (three examples among many) Good Magazine Multiply NYT's TimesPeople Wall Street Journal Twine KCRW.com.
"Bytes of Life" par Monica Hesse sur le Washington Pos. When San Francisco couple Brynn Evans and Chris Messina heard of a new Web site called BedPost, they registered an account before the site was even out of beta. BedPost was created to map users' sex lives online -- everything from partner to duration of the encounter to descriptive words, which could later be viewed as a tag cloud. Relationships and one-night stands alike, condensed to spare, inflexible data in a way that might make the average user uncomfortable. Or simply baffled. But for Evans, a grad student studying cognitive science, and Messina, a Web entrepreneur, the site was just what they needed. After all, they already use project-management site Basecamp to chart the nonsexual parts of their relationship.
They use location tracker BrightKite.com to study where they've been. They track their driving habits on MyMileMarker.com, their listening habits on Last.fm, and their Web-surfing habits, to the minute, on RescueTime.com. Yes, plotting was cool. How to share your social media identity. One of the great things about the current web landscape is that the barrier to entry for entrepreneurs to create great new social media sites is very low. Open source, falling hardware and bandwidth costs, and social media itself (which can be used as a viral marketing vehicle), mean that enterprising developers can more easily than ever create amazing new services. That's great for consumers because it facilitates a lot of competition that leads to the best possible products. But it also means that most people end up using more than just a couple of social sites.
We might use one site for sharing photos, another for sharing videos, and a couple more for sharing links. The content we create on those sites makes up our social media identity, and as we use more sites, it becomes increasingly difficult to share it all from one place. Yesterday, I received an email from a friend whose signature had links to no less than eight social media profiles. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Where is Your Username registered.