A few sites to help manage your online life easily
Your online life is spread across so many different online properties. Your friends are on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, you network professionally through LinkedIn, those cool snaps reside on Flickr and Instagram, the videos go to YouTube and Vimeo, and your random thoughts are penned on blogs at Wordpress or Tumblr. Of course, if you are a bit more tech-savvy, you might even have your own web site.
But just like in real life, if your personal data is scattered across many places, you are bound to have issues with managing it all. Still, with the right tool for the right job, you will find it a breeze to audit your e-self.
>> utopic.me
Now that chacha, chachi, Munnu and Bublee are all online, it’s natural to be daunted by the sheer number of links, photos, videos and other cool things being shared. Don’t worry, Utopic will help you figure out what deserves your attention first. Connect this nifty little service to your Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and YouTube accounts, and Utopic will intelligently scour all the data shared by your family and friends to figure out what’s most interesting to you. But that’s just the ‘Discover’ part of the service. The new ‘your bookmarks’ section lets you pin or save these links for future reference, so you can easily curate all the stuff you find fascinating. The coolest part of Utopic is how easily and seamlessly all your networks gel together to give you one window to rule them all.
>> www.greplin.com
Remember the video of the cute doggie who thinks he’s a cat? Yeah, let’s watch that again. But wait, did you receive the link on Facebook or Twitter or Gmail or Dropbox or…
Greplin to the rescue! This new platform wants to become the Google of your online life. And much like the search giant, Greplin keeps it simple with one search box to greet you and nothing else. You can choose to hook up as many, or as few of your accounts as you want, with options including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox and many more. Greplin takes some time to fully index all your online data. But the wait is worth it, because you get a personal search engine that is lightning fast in retrieving anything from any account. And what’s more, not only does it order the results by service, but over time, understands your search patterns enough to offer more relevant results.
>> about.me
When you meet someone new in real life, you give them your business card. In the online world, the equivalent of a visiting card is your About.Me page.
The service lets you create a page about you and bring all your links in one place — Facebook, Twitter, Email, LinkedIn and whatever else. It’s really easy to use, and more importantly, it looks very cool and inviting. You can customize the background, the details you want to share, and even the fonts and colours, making it a wonderful landing page for anyone who wants to find out more about you.
And the best part is that the URL can be customized to your name or anything else you desire, such as About.Me/YourNameHere.
>> mypermissions.org
But wait a minute. It’s great to have all these services to make your online life easier, but how do you track who is accessing your private data? After all, you just granted all the apps in this piece “access permission” to your private accounts — and you may have just as easily given other apps similar access in the past… Don’t hit the panic button yet. Two developers, Avi Charkham and Eran Sandler, faced the same predicament, so they made a simple page where you can check all your accounts and see which apps have free passage. A simple icon grid lets you quickly log into your Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Instagram, Dropbox, Foursquare or other accounts, to see the apps connected to them. And of course, you can even choose to revoke access to a few services that you may find suspect. For security sake, it’s prudent to visit this site at least once to clean up your account access; and if you’re a power user, it might be wise to set the auto-reminder for a monthly check-up. You never can be too careful when it comes to private data on the Internet.
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