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Find Your Online Home at Zooity

February 28, 2009 6 Comments
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I recently received an email about a new service that’s just been launched. Still in beta, Zooity offers users a one-place stop to share all your online ID’s and networks.

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Now, instead of trying to remember where you are and trying to get all that info to someone who asks, it’s all in front of you. Signing up is easy and then it’s just a matter of updating your account with your networks.

While similar ideas have been done – MyBlogLog, for example – what I like about Zooity is that it offers less popular networks that other sites often leave out. It also breaks them down into niches and sub-genres, so you have video, music, social bookmarking, blogs and more. You can also customize a network if it’s not on Zooity and add it yourself.

There are a couple of things that could improve. If you’re checking a link and hit the back button, it appears to duplicate the entry. Also, it looks minimalistic at the minute. This may be the design plan and if so, fair enough – yet it’d be nice to be able to customize your page a little.

Still, these are very basic quibbles on what’s an otherwise cool little service. When you take into account that Zooity creator James Cross is only 19, then it’s even more impressive and something well worth checking out.

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James Cross
James Cross

Hi all
Thanks for the blog post Danny and for the comments. I do intend the extend functionality for customising the profile page but at the moment I am focused on getting the functionality there for people to use. If anyone has any further comments please contact me - http://www.zooity.com/jamescross.
Thanks again
James

James Cross
James Cross

Hi all Thanks for the blog post Danny and for the comments. I do intend the extend functionality for customising the profile page but at the moment I am focused on getting the functionality there for people to use. If anyone has any further comments please contact me - http://www.zooity.com/jamescross. Thanks again James

@toddlucier
@toddlucier

Hi Danny,
I know there is a need to anchor our complete presence in one place, but I'm not sure there is any better tool than Google Profile. It's pretty simple to setup and most folks are familiar with the brand.

I did set up a similar profile to zooity at chi.mp - also in private beta. They offer .mp domain names (for free) to put all your stuff in one tidy place on your own domain. Seems to make a bit more sense although the .mp domain doesn't stick in my mind. The idea is for folks to claim their name with a .mp extension and host their stuff there, but other options are available too.

For what I do, I claimed passportsta.mp for myself, but frankly I find my google.com/profile was easiest to set up and makes the most sense as a virtual business card.

@toddlucier
@toddlucier

Hi Danny,
I know there is a need to anchor our complete presence in one place, but I'm not sure there is any better tool than Google Profile. It's pretty simple to setup and most folks are familiar with the brand.

I did set up a similar profile to zooity at chi.mp - also in private beta. They offer .mp domain names (for free) to put all your stuff in one tidy place on your own domain. Seems to make a bit more sense although the .mp domain doesn't stick in my mind. The idea is for folks to claim their name with a .mp extension and host their stuff there, but other options are available too.

For what I do, I claimed passportsta.mp for myself, but frankly I find my google.com/profile was easiest to set up and makes the most sense as a virtual business card.

Danny
Danny

Hi Todd,

I agree, Google offers an excellent service and their profile option is pretty in-depth. As it should be, being one of the biggest companies around.

What I like about Zooity is that you don't have to set up a Google account to benefit, and with a lot of people seeing Google as "evil" (not my view personally, but I can see why), thought it offers a good, simple alternative.

Thanks for the alternatives you tweeted about, always nice to find new services.

@toddlucier
@toddlucier

Hi Danny, I know there is a need to anchor our complete presence in one place, but I'm not sure there is any better tool than Google Profile. It's pretty simple to setup and most folks are familiar with the brand. I did set up a similar profile to zooity at chi.mp - also in private beta. They offer .mp domain names (for free) to put all your stuff in one tidy place on your own domain. Seems to make a bit more sense although the .mp domain doesn't stick in my mind. The idea is for folks to claim their name with a .mp extension and host their stuff there, but other options are available too. For what I do, I claimed passportsta.mp for myself, but frankly I find my google.com/profile was easiest to set up and makes the most sense as a virtual business card.

Danny
Danny

Hi Todd, I agree, Google offers an excellent service and their profile option is pretty in-depth. As it should be, being one of the biggest companies around. What I like about Zooity is that you don't have to set up a Google account to benefit, and with a lot of people seeing Google as "evil" (not my view personally, but I can see why), thought it offers a good, simple alternative. Thanks for the alternatives you tweeted about, always nice to find new services.

Dana Lookadoo
Dana Lookadoo

So glad I saw you posting of this on Twitter. Pretty cool service that meets a need, and the developer is only 19? wow! Sounds like Zooity is one more place to get your name and profile setup, one that could be valuable for ORM and getting listed in the SERPs.

Dana Lookadoo
Dana Lookadoo

So glad I saw you posting of this on Twitter. Pretty cool service that meets a need, and the developer is only 19? wow!

Sounds like Zooity is one more place to get your name and profile setup, one that could be valuable for ORM and getting listed in the SERPs.

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