Show Off Your Social Media Accounts
Having trouble keeping track of the 37 social media services you use daily? Having an even harder time recalling your profile URL for those 12 social networks you use when a friend asks for it? Don’t worry, now there is Show Yourself.
Show Yourself is a lightweight widget by Dustin Bachrach, that displays all of your accounts, profiles, usernames, etcetera. It’s styled similarly to the MyBlogLog widget, so if you’re already running that it should match up. You also have the option of hosting the widget yourself so you won’t experience the sluggishness of other website widgets.
Show Yourself is similar to the widget offered by Wink, but Wink requires that you have an account and their widget is a blatant Wink advertisement. As of now, the Show Yourself widget only has a select number of services to add, but Dustin told me he’ll be adding more soon.
I think i use the same username for everything
‘ralphdagza’
except for online banking
Looks good, simple output and very easy to create. Probably going to give this a try
Paul,
YOU are the man…I get wait to get back from my client meeting and check this out. Hey you are a fellow twitter so don’t forget to check out: twitterami
Find local twitters here: http://www.twitterami.com
It’s not perfect but it’s the best I could do in 8 hours!
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use this, other than yourself, but it’s still neat.
Paul, your face icon keeps reminding me of this Aphex Twin album art:
http://www.last.fm/music/Aphex+Twin/Richard+D.+James+Album
Not as freaky though!
Eh, I’ll pass… I already have links to my social networking accounts at the bottom of christianmontoya.net, and I only share the ones that I really want to share (like, Facebook isn’t there).
@Andrew - http://laughingsquid.com/ look in the sidebar. He’s got the Wink version of this. He’s the type of person that would use this.
Man that site took foooorever to load. So, I thought the point of a widget was to have cute little icon-links to your stuff ON OTHER WEBSITES, and this is still on his own website, which is what I meant (I didn’t mean YOU, as in only Stammy would use this). It seems like kind of a roundabout way of just making a list of links with little icons next to them. I’m sure I’m out of the loop on this though, there must be something I’m missing!
@Andrew - it’s slow because it was on digg frontpage and del.icio.us popular. The point is to have a personalized widget with your information on your blog so your readers can find you on other services.
OK, I’ll have to try it and see what the fuss is about, thanks for the info.
Now if I can could download it as Vista Widget that would be great. I’m looking for further ways to slow down my vista machine, widget is one way!
Hey Paul,
I’m a bit curious about what you mean about the wink widget being a blatant advertisement… (thanks for mentioning it though) It’s a widget. most widgets require an account and have promotion. You need a flickr account to have a flickr widget, a box.net account to have a box.net widget. Twitter has a widget… They all promote themselves. I guess I’m not following.
If there’s one thing in particular that you would change about the Wink widget, I’d love to hear about it. I respect your opinion.
Also the Wink widget allows you to place in any URL to any profile, blog, user group, community, etc. that you wish to promote for yourself. As many as you wish. The Wink widget also has three versions. A totally customizable HTML/JS version, a Flash version, and a flat HTML version that will work on MySpace and other sites that do not allow JavaScript and/or Flash links out.
Anyhoo… that’s all. Keep up the good work.
beach
@Beach - I know that many widgets are “advertisements” and feature a link to the site or a “made by X.com” but when referring to the wink widget when I said blatant advertisement I was referring to the integration of a wink search box and everything. Most widgets don’t go that far to have their logo, that user’s tag cloud, a search box for that service, a line about that search (people search by Wink) and then finally a line about the widget (make your own..).
^ a bit overkill I think.
Hmm… I guess I see your point. It’s hard to take the marketing hat off sometimes. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the “Wink Me” thing… that’s one of the things I’m considering removing or at least just keep it part of the other profiles and not treat it any differently.
We want to make the widget as simple as possible, but perhaps we can make some of the promotion a choice.
Show your interests, display the people search box, etc.
Thanks for the feedback Paul.
I appreciate it and will let you know how it goes.
-beach