GizaPage is a social network organizer that helps manage personal and corporate brands under one roof. The idea is ambitious, but if you’re like me it just might be a cure for the five tabs I have open in Firefox right now to run through the latest news about what Matt had for breakfast, what my wife and daughter are doing today, and the latest on the direct marketing front. Basically you’re consolidating all your online profiles.
A redundant solutions for all but the person using 15 or more social networking platform.
Signing up is easy. You create a personalized URL as your single-source destination and click the activation link. The first thing GizaPage asks you to do is import contact from one Gmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn, or similar CRM-like applications. I’m a little hestitnat to start handing out my user name and password, but you can get around this by pulling the contacts in from one of the above then changing your password. Kind of a pain, but a necessary step regardless of their promise not to keep your info on file.
Once you get past that screen the app has you add your public profiles from basically any and all social networking sites on the web. I just went with my top five, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Delicious, and Flickr. Click next, copy and past your personalized URL in your browser and hit go.
My personalized homepage was as advertised with five tabs across the top. I clicked the Twitter tab and was surprised to see not my homepage, but my homepage displayed in TwitterTree. The Twitter app is not a total waste. It expands are trimmed URLs so you have a little more information before clicking through. It’s not better or worse, just different. The other four tabs are predictable and diaplay your profile homepages for Facebook, LiinkedIn, Delicious and Flickr. No changes here.
Why should you spend time signing up for GizaPage? You shouldn’t. Your time would be better spend reading our blog, updating your status and tweeting not creating a redundant social networking site with yet another domain and another password to bookmark and remember.
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