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		<title>Flavors.me: A Dead Simple Way To Pull Your Online Presences Into One Place</title>
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If you&#8217;re reading this post, there&#8217;s a good chance you have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem you may face is pulling all of this information together to build a single online identity — be it for personal use, or to create a professional online profile. [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.flavors.me"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/flavorsloog.png" alt="" /></a>If you&#8217;re reading this post, there&#8217;s a good chance you have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem you may face is pulling all of this information together to build a single online identity — be it for personal use, or to create a professional online profile.  <a href="http://www.flavors.me">Flavors.me</a> is a new site launching today that looks to make this as simple as possible, and it does so with flying colors. After a three month long private beta, the site has just launched to the public.</p>
<p>The service is as simple as they come.  After completing a basic sign up form, you link your Flavors.me page to any of 15 online services, with options that include Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (as well as any RSS feed).  Flavors.me taps into these services via their APIs (you generally enter your credentials using OAuth or Facebook Connect), and within minutes you&#8217;re ready to start customizing your site.</p>
<p>All of your linked content is pulled into your Flavors.me page so it&#8217;s easy to access, but it&#8217;s never overwhelming — the site&#8217;s templates are minimalist, and hide everything but your name and a list of your online feeds/profiles at first.  If you click on one of these feeds, the content will smoothly transition into view; it&#8217;s all very slick.  You can also tweak your page&#8217;s color scheme, backgrounds, and layout to suit your taste (though there are only a handful of layouts to choose from initially).</p>
<p>You can get a feel for what&#8217;s possible by checking out my <a href="http://flavors.me/jasonkincaid">Flavors.me</a> page, which took me all of ten minutes to set up — keep in mind that it&#8217;s entirely possible to make a page that looks better than this with a little more time.</p>
<p>There are plenty of other services out there that let you list all of your online presences in one place, with options including <a href="http://chi.mp/">chi.mp</a>, <a href="http://card.ly/">card.ly</a>, <a href="http://unhub.com/">UnHub</a>, and even Google Profiles.  But Flavors.me really makes the process extremely simple, and the results look great.</p>
<p>Flavors.me is free for its basic features,  and will generate revenue through premium subscriptions, which are $20 a year.  Premium features include the ability to use your own custom domain name, real time statistics, and the ability to include a contact form in your page (though obviously you could just include your Email address in the standard &#8216;About&#8217; field).</p>
<p>Flavors.me was built by <a href="http://www.hiidef.com/">HiiDef</a>, an incubator started by former Vimeo exec Jonathan Marcus and his brother, David Marcus.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/7105366">Flavors.me</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/jackzerby">Jack Zerby</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Betty Goes Boop: Cc: Betty To Be Reborn As Threadbox</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a product, Cc: Betty was a good idea. Fundamentally, the goal was organize group email threads in a way that makes them more manageable. From an execution perspective, it left a bit to be desired. And from a naming perspective, it left a lot more. Today, the company is announcing that both are changing.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-141569" src="http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screen-shot-2010-02-04-at-3.52.28-PM.png" alt="" width="309" height="78" />As a product, <a href="http://www.ccbetty.com/">Cc: Betty</a> was a good idea. Fundamentally, the goal was organize group email threads in a way that makes them more manageable. From an execution perspective, it left a bit to be desired. And from a naming perspective, it left a lot more. Today, the company is announcing that both are changing.</p>
<p>In an email to customers, Cc: Betty has disclosed that it&#8217;s changing its name to <a href="http://threadbox.com/">Threadbox</a>. And actually the entire service will be morphing into a &#8220;new and improved product.&#8221; The changes are the result of 10 months of beta testing. From the email:</p>
<blockquote><p>We’ve found our email integration/interaction to be very popular, given most of us manage our workflow from email. We’ve found some of our web interface experience to be clunky and some of it to be intuitive along the way. We’ve found our branding/packaging to work well for the casual, more personal use cases. But for the majority, the workplace oriented user, the branding/packaging while cute, needed to be tuned.</p>
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<p>This new Threadbox product will officially launch this Spring. In the meantime, they&#8217;re allowing some of their most active users a change to demo Threadbox right now. Those interested can sign up for the waiting list <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CcBetty/9c0954e3f9/3282d6cfe9/eea517ddf4">here</a> or on their new <a href="http://threadbox.com/">site</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/ccbetty-raises-500k-for-email-organization-assistant/">Cc: Betty raised $500,000</a> in December of last year, and has $2 million in total funding now. As we noted during the last funding round, Threadbox has been the name of a project that founder Michael Cerda had been working on — but what wasn&#8217;t known is that Cc: Betty would <em>become</em> Threadbox.</p>
<p>Cc: Betty will continue to operate until Threadbox is ready to go. And at that time, they&#8217;ll offer a way for users to migrate their data over. Learn more about the new Threadbox in the video below (also note how they make fun of Google Wave).</p>
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