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July 18, 2007 2:00 PM PDT

Profilactic puts your multiple personalities in one room

by Rafe Needleman
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Profilactic, which I covered previously, is now available to the public. It's a personal feed aggregator: You tell it where you post online, and it pulls all the feeds together. You can point people to this "mashup" page, or use one of the site's widgets to embed that info in your own profile page or blog.

Another social site I use, Jaiku, has a similar function--it consolidates personal feeds into one feed. Profilactic is much easier to set up, though. It has a list of sites it can read from (Twitter, Pownce, Digg, Flickr, and several more), and all you have to do is put in your public usernames for the accounts you have. You can also add a blog or RSS feed to Profilactic.

There are some hangups with this early release of the site. For one, it's a reader, not a writer: You can't post to your various sites from Profilactic. You'll have to do that from the sites themselves. And it doesn't yet read enough sites. There's no Facebook integration, for example. (A full Facebook version is in the works, I was told.) Also, the invitation system isn't yet built.

Still, it's a useful service, especially if you are a participant in several sites.

See also: Mashable's rundown of 20 social network aggregators.

Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.
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by cathleenritt July 19, 2007 8:41 PM PDT
I read about this site the first time you wrote about it and signed up for an invite. I agree with your assessment so far. I haven't read the Mashable aggregator article, but can tell it will be useful too. Just glancing at it, I would say Profilactic is the best I have tried so far. This site and these reviews are an incredible resource. Thanks.
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