I was intrigued by an offhand reference to a ‘neat new service’ and consequently poked into infostripe. It’s a consolidated touchpoint for sharing your social media participation and identities in a compact and dynamic manner. Similar to some extent to about.me, it draws upon a certain amount of your digital narcissism. The biggest difference between about.me and infostripe appear to be in the flavour: about.me takes a very aesthetic-centred approach, where infostripe is deeply rich in content and concise presentation. About.me demands more manual creation of the information used to describe you, where infostripe attempts to automate this process by building a profile based on what you are contributing to the social mediasphere.
One of the things that immediately strikes is that much in the way that RSS and RSS readers distanced readers from the author’s blog, infostripe is extracting a wider collection of your digital breadcrumbs and flowing them into a uniform presentation that allows the browser to avoid having to trawl the net for your activity. All of this pushes the bounds of privacy and the boundary between our private and public worlds, but at least in this, the service is rather transparent in this.
The lead developer is in Ottawa and I am of course pleased to see more solid Canadian vision and product deployment. Intriguing and worthy of some more investigation.
Thank you very much for such a well stated and written review.
I of course found this post via your infostripe 🙂