For those of you who don’t know what flavors.me is (or indeed rival service about.me) – it started life as a signposting site.. a way for your to have a web based introductions card / signpost to all your disparate online presences.
Handy for things like business cards or email signatures.. People can then choose which of your streams to check out : your tweets, your photos (on flickr) your CV / résumé or biz updates on LinkedIn etc. Flavors.me has now expanded that initial service further by allowing you to see what other flavors.me users are updating within their respective ‘native’ services.
I wrote about both the new service itself and where that could go in the future : have a look here over on the Brass Agency blog (3 stories in , scroll down the page).
I’ve also written about it before here : aggregated online personas on markkelly.net
And as an update to how these type of services are doing.. Google trends seams to suggest that both services have similar numbers of searches now and also site visits (whereas as about.me was ahead on both for the last year or more : http://trends.google.com/websites?q=about.me,+flavors.me&date=all&geo=all&ctab=0&sort=1&sa=N
Personally I prefer flavors.me because of the other users aggregating tool thing and I’m used to the design options and functionality now. But the about.me url is much better…
Do you use either? if not, why not ? if so – which do you prefer?
Related articles
- 3 Sites to Showcase Your Personal Brand (junta42.com)
- Flavors.me Heads Into Tumblr Territory With “Follow” Buttons & Plans To Support Content Creation (techcrunch.com)
- Flavors.me evolves from personal landing page and shows off its social aspirations (digitaltrends.com)
- The all new Flavors.me: A social network to unite all social networks? (thenextweb.com)
