Put your Mugshot on the Web!
Open Source, Social Networks, Software, Web 2.0, Widgets July 16th, 2008
Mugshot (an initiative by RedHat) makes it easy to show off what you’re doing online and helps you to keep up with what your friends are doing online at different sites, all in one place.
You can just use the Web version, or make the most of Mugshot with the open source desktop software!
Your Mugshot page includes,
- Your own profile information.
- Icons linking to your web accounts (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr,Blogs).
- Thumbnails of your Flickr/Picasa photos and YouTube Videos.
- Updates from your friends
- Your own updates including private one which only you can see!
Mugshot allows you to get updates from these sites :
- Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace, and more blogs
- iTunes, Last.fm, Rhapsody, and Yahoo! Music playlists
- Flickr and Picasa photos
- Stories rated on Digg and Reddit
- del.icio.us bookmarks
- YouTube videos
- Google reader shared items
- Facebook messages, photos, pokes, and wall messages
- Amazon reviews and wish list items
- Netflix movie queue
- RSS feeds
And if thats not enough, you can keep up with others through,
- On the web: through your own Mugshot page
- On your blog or Web page: using the Mugshot Mini widget
- On your desktop: using the Mugshot Stacker
- On your Google Desktop and home page: using the Mugshot Google Gadget
- On Facebook: using the Mugshot application
- On MySpace or any Web page: using the Music Radar widget
Phew! That was a long list! Thanks for keeping up with me!
Note that Mugshot makes use of public web services from a variety of commercial and non-commercial service providers like AIM, Amazon, Rhapsody and Yahoo!


