Idea Is Queen!

Idea Is Queen reader Sandeep Ahluwalia just shared with us a new idea which might sovle our pain of being multi-social-networkers. Interestingly, I’ve thought of a similar one before, I named it “Social Network Maintainer”, and wrote it down on my memo (title only). But I then gave it up because I couldn’t find a practical way to develop this idea. So when I saw Sandeep’s, it’s like “Aha! that’s what I want!” Good job.

Ok let’s see what’s Sandeep’s idea:

Most people use more than one social networking site. For example I personally use myspace, hi5, bebo and facebook.
The biggest hassle with being apart of all these sites is managing your profile information and the information that comes to you via comments or messages.

My idea involves a Central Site where an everyone uploads their generic profile information (such as about me, likes, dislikes, films etc), and possibly uploads their photos and videos too.
Then if you want to update your other profiles with new information (lets face it, likes, dislikes and the other sections (blogs in particular) in profiles are constantly changing with our lives), then you click the relevant button, and this central site will upload your updated information (and possibly photos and videos) to all the other websites.

An example of this.. I change my Favourite Movies section, click on the buttons for the sites I want to update, then it can update my profiles with the new information.

Additionally, an all in one message centre could potentially be extremely popular, as it is quite a pain to check messages across multiple social network sites.

Potential problems definitely lie with being to update profiles without user intervention. I know that for myspace, an external site such as ilike.com (it can add the ilike toy to your page) can update your profile without you having to do anything. I’m not sure how easy this is for other social network sites. Another problem would be with Photos, Videos and Music as they are usually uploaded to the actual websites servers, and this could take a very long time. Also, I’m not sure how welcoming the actual network sites will be to a service such as this.

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