Kwetter

Alpha-release Kwetter

The use of Social Media is really taking off now. Now that the innovators and early adopters have mowned the social lawn, the early and late majority is flooding the garden. I am getting loads of connection requests on a daily basis for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Hyves. Conversely I want to connect to all those interesting people outside of the geek-community that finally joined the party. But it is a quest.

People register odd names. They join three or more networks. And they choose a different name on every network. Because social services come and go (in the same pace that Google aquires them) it’s neccessary to find and connect to people on the different spots to make sure you stay connected. Kwetter will help you solve a bit of this problem.

I know this is a problem countered by a wide range of initiatives. Meecards, Poken and HelloMyNameisE are just a few of them. And every one of them makes things more complicated for me. I want it simple.

• I am user of Meecard. Meecard offers the possibility to gather everything of your webpresence in one place, not just your profilenames on different networks. And it has lots of styling options for you personal meecard. But I am not that good in designing as you can see. So I made it simple.
• Poken is making the connectionritual an offline experience with funny looking mini-computers that exchange your poken-profile. When connected to your computer the Poken will reveal the identity of the person you have just met in real life. Problem: you need to go out to actually meet somebody. I love these offline gatherings, and I am swinging my Poken around the place. But Kwetter is to be used right here, right now.
• E is a really sophisticated tool. E is combining the profilic exchange with an adressbook-synchronization-tool called Soocial.  E is working with more than one ‘identity’, a feature Poken is offering as well. But since my personal and professional live is merged, I just wanted one profile. Besides that: I haven’t got a VC backing me up. So that forced me to keep it stupid simple.

Kwetter is a service that lets you collect all of your online accountnames in one place to share with the world (and to remember for yourself:). Nothing more, nothing less.

Why? If people know you on one of the social networks you registered at, they can find your Kwetter-profile - through Google, or Worldwide Kwetter Awareness. After that they can find you on every network you joined, because you completed your Kwetter-page.

Privacy? It is you who made these profiles on all these platforms! And it is still up to you to decide whether you accept or deny a friend-request. Be strong!

So that’s it? Let me in!

Feature of this alpha-release

Kwetter offers a one-page overview of all of your accounts, to be filled in by yourself.

Future releases will offer:

• transition to a .com domain
• a widget to show your profiles on your blog,
• search in Kwetter for profilenames within all networks
• the option to claim your private domain www.yourname.com and have it hosted on the kwetter-servers. Finally you can have your own domain, and not feel the urge to start a blog.

And many more to come. Stay tuned at this blog.

Volunteers who want to help us develop new features, please DM @tyno at Twitter.