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DooID presents a slick solution to an all-too-common problem: it provides people who have accounts on multiple social websites with one single place to post all of their contact information. It strives to act as an online business card, and I must say it does the job quite gracefully.
Ideally, you would be able to meet someone new and give them a single, simple URL (such as http://dooid.com/perschmitz), and they would get a short bio of you, as well as all of your contact information and online profiles. It's actually very similar to Google Profiles, but so much nicer-looking (and it does not involve submitting even more personal information to Google).
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Subscribe to commentsBryan PriceMar 18th 2010 7:39PM
I fail to see the difference between this and businesscard2.com and card.ly
It's a better formatted card.ly from what I can see, since card.ly goes wonkers once you put in more than 8 links. And I really don't understand why I have to put in a description, since on every description I just put my name. There's also the bit about a Blogger profile. It's not the Blogger profile, it's the actual blogspot blog, which then is just one blog out of a possible many.
And instead of putting that information up on Google, Google's going to be scraping it anyways, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
per schmitzMar 19th 2010 5:35AM
There's different services with very different approaches. At DooID we have some innovative key features: a) Choose a design and customize it b) Password protect whatever you want - don't spurn your privacy. c) Add-ons supply extra value d) mobile version e) automatically generated e-mail signature ...
The description of each added online profile helps less experienced visitors of your DooID understand what's going on.
Bryan PriceMar 19th 2010 11:59AM
Yeah, I understand that there are some differences, the password thing is probably a good thing for most people, although I'm not sure that the default of NOT protecting that information is a wise choice. It doesn't bother me, I run a rather transparent life anyways. See http://www.bryanlprice.com/linkstomonitor.html and look in my Personal section. It lists every single profile (that I can get my hands on) to every site I've ever registered. It also helps me realize what I've already subscribed to, on those few occasions when Firefox doesn't remember my username password. It's quite a list, and I'm still awaiting some sort of standard so that I can upload it as some sort of XML file, and not have to go through manually and type all 109 different links. Again. The HTML file is something I create with a Powershell script locally, and then upload. So creating that XML file to upload would be a piece of cake for me. But then, I'm not normal. At least that's what my wife says...
As far as the descriptions go, why not just automatically fill in [user name]'s [servicename]? At best, a little more wording than just requiring it, especially for a first time user (like I was) , because I really thought it was silly. That's for the services you already have defined. The other links that a person can add, yes, I see a need for it.
And yes, I meant to leave you feedback, but I got distracted. Duh! :)
Juan OzunaMar 19th 2010 2:16PM
I just tried out http://flavors.me - a similar service with (what I think is) a beautifully minimalistic approach, but many customization options. Worth a look, in my opinion.