Another day of focusing on programming has gone by, and I’ve had little time for reading emails, blogs, or messages on numerous social networks I’m on. One blog I visited was DedeAndro. He’s been playing with the Lijit recently. I started using Lijit about eighteen months ago, and have left one of their widgets on my sidebar. It shows recent searches and links to some of the different social networks I’m on. They’ve evolved a bit since I’ve added them, and I’ve just added the ability to see more of the information that they’ve collected about me.

They also link into PostRank, a tool which ‘measures audience engagement’. I’ve signed up for PostRank and started playing around with it, but don’t have much of an impression of it yet. I did add the Greasemonkey script so PostRank can interoperate with Google Reader.

The other news I got today about tracking online identities is from EntreCard. They’ve added the ability ten different social networks on your profile. Currently, I list twelve identities on lijit. On MyBlogLog, I list 34 social networks, on Retaggr I list 54 social networks, and on the most powerful of all, so far, DandyID, I list 76 different networks.

So, I filled in the ten networks that EntreCard looks at, simply copying the links over from DandyID. One of the networks that EntreCard lists is MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog makes the list of networks available in a Friend of a Friend (FOAF) file. It would be nice if EntreCard could have simply read that file. DandyID is supposed to be working on some sort of API as well, although I’ve suggested that they might want to suggest FOAF as well. It would make it easier to have one tool that could life network information from various sites that support FOAF.

So, as the number of social networks grow, so do the interconnections between them, as well as the tools for listing which ones you are on. So, which networks are you on that I’ve missed? What tools are you using that I should consider?

P.S. I just got seriously spammed by some program going out and creating 200 userids, apparently in an effort to spread some sort of Trojan horse. I’ve deleted the userids and changed the registration process. If you’ve created a userid and I deleted it, I apologize.