Flavors.me: The new social aggregator with a pleasant aftertaste
Though it only launched to the public several days ago, Flavors.me has already won my loyalty.
What is Flavors.me? It’s quite possibly the simplest means to pull the feeds of any combination of 14 social networks and RSS into one elegant personal spash page. For me that means collecting info from two blogs and eight social profiles ranging from the likes of Twitter and LinkedIn to Flickr and YouTube in one location, where it can then serve as an easy-to-use directory of my activity and the places I can be found. Unlike services like Friendfeed or Google Buzz, where the platform aggregates online social activity, Flavors.me neither adds the weight of one more site I have to monitor or network I have to participate in nor does it send my activity willy-nilly to sites like Facebook where the content becomes either out of context or too noisy for the uninitiated.
Flavors.me is clean, simple and either points people in the right direction or lets them quickly digest the info I readily share among online networks.
It’s a welcome solution.
I’m active in a lot of social networks. Part of it is due to sheer curiosity as to how each new startup addresses the challenges of online interaction. Another reason I participate so heavily is because some networks simply do the best at what they set out to do. YouTube is the ruler of user-generated video sharing; LinkedIn is the biggest professional network. And so on.
Another reason I’m active is to continue building what so many call the “personal brand.” I’ve secured the mattgunn username in as many places as possible. Though there are instances where that simply wasn’t possible due to it either being taken (rare) or being tied to a slightly more anonymous username that predates the current influx of social networks, having a consistent username is a good thing for friends who want to catch up in other places. Since it’s not always possible, Flavors.me simplifies the process. Almost to the point where I’d consider purchasing a new domain to link to my Flavors.me account and using that as a primary point of reference on business cards or email signatures (personal URLs are among the premium features Flavors.me offers for $20 a year). I’m not sure Flavors.me would replace this site as a more professional point of reference, but it’s certainly acceptable for casual online social activity.
Regardless of how you use it, Flavors.me is worth a test run for anyone with multiple online profiles who doesn’t mind being found easily.
Here’s a demo of Flavors.me in action…
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