The information available reminds me of the type of site I configured for ClaimID awhile back (and I need to update!). You put together a collection of all the sites you’re active on, in coordination with your contact information and other details about you like where you’ve lived, where you live, who you’re working for and who you’ve worked for in the past.

Your contact information can be restricted to just your contacts in your Gmail address book, distribution groups in your address book, or independent groups you setup yourself through the site. I think they should also add the different groups you may be associated with in Google Groups.

There’s portions of it that also remind me of the types of information you’d share on both Facebook from a social/personal perspective; as well as the professional side you’d share on LinkedIn.

Given that it’s a Google page, you can bet it will be indexed well and come up in search results for the keywords you’ve used in your profile. Depending on the amount of information you share, you may get that Facebook effect of reconnecting with people you haven’t talked to or perhaps even though of in forever.

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"You live in Indianapolis? Do you know my cousin John?"

I continue to connect and reconnect with a variety of people via Facebook. One of the features of the site though is that they try and be helpful with introducing you to people you may now. The only problem is that I don’t know hardly any of the people they ever mention in the little box.

For example, I don’t know Denise, John or Travis. Sometimes Facebook will suggest someone that lives in the city I live in, or maybe went to the college I graduated from or high school I attended.

I appreciate their attempt at reconnecting me, but I think a prerequisite should be that the person they’re suggesting that I know perhaps should also have at least one friend in common with me?

I went to a small enough high school where that might not be too bad, college perhaps, but just because someone lives in Indianapolis, doesn’t mean I am more than likely to know them.

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