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Flavors.me update – now includes more flavours

Jun 112010

Further to my previous post on flavors.me, which is a brilliantly simple yet effective concept to gather up your many profiles and persona, and present yourself on the web (read more detail in previous post if you don’t know about it) – They’ve just updated the service with some key improvements that us users had asked for:

They’ve acquired the domain flavours.me which now mirrors everything at flavors.me – excellent for us British English speaking users
It no longer runs on Flash – so now iPhone and iPad browsers can view sites
They’ve improved their customer support over on Get Satisfaction

They’ve had a few teething problems updating feeds quickly and the like, mainly caused by the massive number of users signing up to use the service – I don’t think they expected their success to be achieved so quickly.

There’s a few minor things that can be improved – such as viewing a site on an iPhone – the background picture doesn’t stay put so white text on a dark background becomes invisible if you scroll down the feed. Though now they’ve solved two issues/ideas I had (flavours & iPhone) I get the feeling they are listening and trying their best to provide a great service both to the paid accounts and free ones.

Thanks go to the guys and girls at flavors.me (flavours.me). Keep up the excellent work.

Here’s my my personal flavours.me page and ones I very quickly created for BBC’s Digital Planet and The Now Show to consolidate their feeds and links for fans.

flavors.me – brilliantly simple

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Mar 042010

Have you got 101 profiles, blogs and pages sitting all over the web? flavors.me does a fantastic job of bringing them together to present your web presence in a simple, classy, very effective manner.

The site is extremely easy to use, adding services like Twitter,Facebook, LinkedIn, any RSS feed and any hyperlink. Added services/feeds are presented directly on your site once clicked on. Pick and modify your theme.
It’s all very simple, but very effective in producing a “springboard” for your web persona.

Here’s mine for example

To quote:
Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet
Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between.

chi.mp

I have also tried others such as chi.mp which is OK, has lot more options but is much fussier and not as well presented, so for most people flavors.me will present itself much better. The advantage of chi.mp is you can develop different persona for different purposes – Public, Work, Friends, so only those you link to each persona can view that content – though most people do that already by using Facebook and LinkedIn separately for these purposes, so chi.mp feels like starting this all over again.

Here’s what TechCrunch had to say about flavors.me.

For the [above] average Jo, Bob or Jane out there, get flavors.me now and springboard your web presence beautifully.

Simply brilliant. Brilliantly simple.

June 2010 update – service updated, now even better – see my new post.