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This whole "social web" thing is crazy. I've just picked things that are different enough from each other to serve different purposes, and I've already stacked up 9.

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The Centralized You: Chi.mp vs. StoryTlr

The news of FriendFeed being bought by Facebook does not change things for a large number of users who did not find it very useful. In my previous What FriendFeed Is Not post, I had discussed this section of disillusioned users of FriendFeed, who tried to use it as a place for centralizing their online presence. I suggested that these users were better off using Chi.mp or StoryTlr instead.

So how do these services compare? Both Chi.mp and StoryTlr:

• Aggregate your blog posts, photos, etc. from multiple services
• Provide a 'Centralized Me' home on the web
• Lifestream your activities around the web
• Provide an RSS Feed of your Lifestream
• Allow you to backup / export your imported data
• Support Disqus commenting
• Support adding Google Analytics for tracking site traffic
• Both are committed to open standards - you own your data
• Your sites are ad-free on both services
• Both allow you to automatically cross-post from other services to Twitter
  

Chi.mp offers the following unique features:

• Open ID (This is the #1 requested feature under consideration at StoryTlr)
• Free ".mp" domain
• Sophisticated Contact Management - imports your contacts from various networks, allows you to group, manage, export them
• 'Personas' - provides different view of your site/lifestream based on different groups of contacts
• Supports importing from 7 sources - Yahoo, Flickr, Hotmail, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and any RSS Feed.
• Minimal, basic mini-blogging support
  

In contrast, StoryTlr has the following, which Chi.mp doesn't:

• Lot of flexibility in page design and layout
• Has a few useful built-in widgets, you can create your own custom widget
  
• You can easily add 'Pages' to your site
  
• Mashup your data into 'Stories'
• Exactly the same view of your site for everyone (unlike Chi.mp)
  
• Complete control over CSS layouts of your site
• Full blogging support includes all HTML including embed, script, etc.
  
• Offers lifestream and story widgets you can use on your own blog
• Browser bookmarklet to share anything directly on your StoryTlr site
  
• Supports importing from 16 sources - Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader, Identi.ca, Last.fm, Picasa, Qik, Seesmic, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Vimeo, YouTube, and any RSS Feed.
  

These are from my own observations, so do correct me if I'm wrong. I hope this comparison helps you decide which service is better suited to your needs.

I would love to know which one you prefer!
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The New York Post? What's next...... Shame on you!!!!!!

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"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

"Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"