LinkedInABox - that’s handy
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
I’ve just added a LinkedInABox widget to this blog and it prompts a thought about personal profiles. I don’t know how many you have, but I have several that I can think of off the top of my head:
- On this very site
- On LinkedIn, of course
- Ecademy
- My wacky Livejournal
- My odd books site
- MyBlogLog
To some extent these all serve different purposes but wouldn’t it be nice to have them all managed in one place? Unfortunately most sites don’t let you add dynamic code to your profile, otherwise one could imagine a universal profile widget which would supply the required text for whichever site it was placed on.
Still it would certainly be possible to make something similar to LinkedInABox that would work for other sites like those I list, an aggregated profile widget if you like. It wouldn’t reduce the number of profiles you have to maintain but it might inspire you to update them more regularly if more people got to see them.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 am
Hi Alfred,
Thanks for pointing me to this - it’s great! I saw it on your Ecademy post, but couldn’t reply without paying money
I decided to spend the day getting it to work on my drupal-based http://www.open4.org website - do please go take a look!
I’m going to submit the module to drupal.org, in the meantime anyone is welcome to download it from:
http://www.open4.org/files/linkedinabox-1.0.tar.gz
Also subscribed to your blog!
Best,
Steve
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 am
p.s. I know what you mean about profiles, my view is that we would be best off having one profile too. Lots of stuff going on with OpenID though, which looks good.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
Ah yes, OpenID, there’s a thought. I hadn’t considered its potential impact on profiles. It’s one of those “must get round to investigating” things on my mental to do list.