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Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Larry Hawes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:55:11 -0000

Errr, meant to say my existing OpenID provider. chi.mp is an OID provider, but I don't need a second one.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Larry Hawes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:51:14 -0000

Plaxo was the first existing alternative I thought of also. Has some of these features, but much simpler overall. Not sure I need my own domain. I'd prefer to create and maintain a global profile with my OpenID provider.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Jared Brandon — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:53:26 -0000

To be honest, I'm not really sure what to do with it. Site's a popping up like crazy to manage your online identities, and soon sites will be popping up to manage the sites that manage your identities. At any rate, I try to get in on stuff like this early so that I can at least reserve my usernames.

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CW — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:15:46 -0000

The chi.mp website is up here. What part of the world are you in? Maybe it is a DNS issue..

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jangeronimo — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:54:43 -0000

Bummer. This site is still down two days in a row. What's up with that.

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ripanti — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:14:20 -0000

I like chi.mp because it helps us to bring identity pages to the people.
We try something simmilar with www.yiid.com

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Michael Bauser — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:04:15 -0000

It's a status message (like Twitter). Look on your account dashboard for the update box.

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Michael Bauser — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:59:41 -0000

Linkedin? Not really. If chi.mp is copying anybody, it's copying Plaxo.

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shay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:55:14 -0000

Chi.mp is definitely worth giving a go. Its an interesting concept and although there were and are similar services, the fact that they offer a free domain name in the .mp extension could be what makes this a winner - at least it will bring everyday users in... young n old alike.

Mention free domain name + free hosting + blogging + social networking + network hub = potentially very powerful.

I've signed up as namepi.mp - will be giving a good spin.

Nice article btw.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Timo Reitnauer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:08:21 -0000

Chi.mp is a great service and brings the concept of owning an online identity and profile management under your own domain name to the masses. One thing we especially like is the possibility to add a custom domain name in case you want to use an existing .com domain or another extension.

DailyPush also mentioned the new .tel domain extension which is a second example for an online identity management service but for contact data. The .tel already has more than 100.000 registered names since their start last week which should be worth a mention on Mashable as well.

Both services definitely bring a fresh feel to the domain name industry and we are happy to support them with http://iwantmyname.com.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Justyn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:45:11 -0000

Anyone figured out how to get rid of the "Big Chimpin" quote from the front page?

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Seattle Website Design — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:57:48 -0000

Great idea and a great name. It will be interesting to see how the net evolves in relation to the issues of social identity and content ownership.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Avril W Scott Mackay — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:54:47 -0000

MMHHHHhhh... IS THIS AN APRIL FOOL ??Have been caught out so many times today ...??/

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Jennifer Van Grove — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:30:17 -0000

You touched on something that I wasn't able to fit into the post. Since chi.mp doubles as a domain host you can leverage analytics and webmaster tools, which could be powerful for power users.

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van — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:19:37 -0000

Interesting. Isn't this the same as linkedin.com?

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Rob Vanasco — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:17:05 -0000

Chi.mp 2.2 Updates: http://tinyurl.com/d3feyg

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Michael Bauser — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:26:16 -0000

Wow, ANOTHER site for rebroadcasting tweets? Sign me up!

At the rate we're going, the Internet will soon be nothing but rebroadcast twitter streams.

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tyfn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:59:36 -0000

What I like about chi.mp is that it allows me to finally have a cool Open ID.

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Jason Colon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:55:35 -0000

That looks so cool, I'm going to check it out. Thanks

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Shelley West — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:47:06 -0000

This sounds like it's worth looking into to manage your online identity. If it allows you to separate contacts into categories that is an awesome feature. How many times have you looked at your address book and forgotten how you met someone.
As with any new website it will have a learning curve to figure out the features but from the looks of it that might be well worth the time investment.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

WalterYu — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:45:40 -0000

Awesome! I'm signing up now!

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DailyPush — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:34:02 -0000

I looked a chimp for a bit. But it is not as universal as the new dot tel tld extension.
This domain extension is purpose is to do something similar to what chimp does. But you get the ability to interface it with iphone and many other future mobile devices and networks.

Look for the .Tel extension coming to MySpace.

"...Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD: undefined, undefined, undefined%), is pleased to announce today that MySpace, the world's premiere social portal, will now be offering .tel domains to its members...."
http://www.foxbusiness.com/...

Dont be a chi.mp! be a telster!
Check out the vid from telnic.org
The new way to communicate http://tinyurl.com/6n3kvx

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

SocialSoundSystem — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:28:17 -0000

I switched over when Swurl went down. Love that you can easily setup analytics and Google webmaster tools. Very clean interface. Been starting to use the blogging platform as well. Looking forward to all the new features.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Michael Myers — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:15:43 -0000

I was thinking that your browser would house your online persona (http://www.michaelmyers.biz... and then wondered if social networks would be the repository. Either way; this is an excellent step in the right direction.

Re: chi.mp: Own Your Online Identity and Social Network Contacts

Chris Dessi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:12:32 -0000

As someone who is recently unemployed that blogs, Tweets (obsessively), just launched a consulting LLC, and is in the process of launching my own Web Vlog for Dad's (all while still interviewing), I see a HUGE need for any aggregator/filter. As more and more "normal people" start to build their online brand and launch their own bootstrapped businesses I see this vertical growing exponentially. Great post, thanks!