Do you nomee? (or my new job)

Some of you already know this, but I've been waiting to post the news until I had something to show. With the new year ahead of me, I decided it was time to get out of consulting and back into product development; this time with a company called nomee. What can I say, I like product development.

What is nomee you ask? What is that thing on the side of my blog? First let me say, Nomee is not another social website. It's a tool, built with Adobe AIR, to organize and monitor them all.

If you think about it, if you put all of the websites you've signed up, and everything you've posted about yourself together -- you've created a virtual brand for yourself. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to control what part of that online brand people see? facebook for friends, linked-in for co-workers, etc.. Add in the annoying problem of trying to stay on top of all of these sites and all of your friends. How many hours a day/week do you spend going to different sites to see if anything has changed; or have you given up?

These are the problems we are solving with Nomee. With nomee:

  • You can control what things about yourself that you want to share with others.
  • You can follow your friends. Nomee can monitor over 100 different websites. When your friends do things online you are alerted, then you can decide if you care and want to open the item or if you want to ignore it.
  • You can stay in touch. Nomee keeps your contact information synchronized with your friends and families. When they need to know your new phone number - they look in nomee. When they need your new address - they look in nomee.
  • You can publish yourself. like I have on this blog, or my facebook page. On the right you'll see my public nomee card (they can be public or private).
As we are starting our public beta and getting ready for web 2.0, check out our beta, you can download it now. Go to nomee.com, or even better, click the follow me link on the bottom of my nomee card (on the right of my blog) and add me to your nomee desktop.

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Russell Brown's Gravatar Cool Mike, I just signed up and setup an account to check it out... Looks great, looking forward to playing with it. I wasn't sure how to find my own web link, so I can't share my card via a link like you did though!
# Posted By Russell Brown | 3/26/09 11:04 AM
mike nimer's Gravatar When you edit a card that you want to share, you can make the card public. Once you check that checkbox, a link to embed this card appears. That will give you 3 options to embed, simple, vertical (like mine), or horizontal.
# Posted By mike nimer | 3/26/09 12:29 PM
John C. Bland II's Gravatar It is cool but kinda weird. All I can see is it telling me to email my cards to friends. Does it actually send updates to my sites to update the different profiles?
# Posted By John C. Bland II | 3/26/09 4:00 PM
mike nimer's Gravatar No, we just monitor the sites for changes we don't push changes (that actually violates the terms of service for some of the sites). It's like an RSS reader for people instead of sites.

You can add some public cards to your desktop if you want to really see the alerts in action
http://www.nomee.com/follow-nomee_newsmakers.aspx
# Posted By mike nimer | 3/26/09 7:12 PM
John C. Bland II's Gravatar Ohhhhhhh...my bad. I misunderstood. In that sense then...great. :-)

BTW, I didn't congratulate you on the gig. Congrats! I'm sure you'll help improve the project a ton.
# Posted By John C. Bland II | 3/27/09 10:14 AM
Dave's Gravatar Pretty killer Mike! Nice work :-)
# Posted By Dave | 3/31/09 1:41 AM
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