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There are hundreds of social networking sites today and hundreds more are coming up. Often we find ourselves registering for a couple of these. Some of our friends are in places like Orkut, while some are in other places like Linkedin or Facebook. Over time, we keep on getting invites from friends at new social networking sites and finally we find that we are everywhere. Often in such situations, we lose track of which login ID we have created for a specific site or which friends are where.  

There are more to handle. I am talking about the social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. Add to this the picture and video sharing sites like Flickr and Youtube.

Almost every web 2.0 sites today requires you to create a login ID to use its services. How do you manage your identities in the midst of all these? We can simply jot down our login IDs on a MS word file or use a service like Roboform. But what if we want our friends to know where all places are we? What if we want to access and manage all these identities and sites from a central place?  

In come the social networking aggregators. These sites basically lists all your social networks in one page. Some of them offer advance services such as getting content from all these sites like your list of friends or all your friends’ scraps in that page, so that you don’t have to visit each site individually.

Below is a list of such social network aggregators. Check them out: 

8Hands – This is a desktop application that allows you to offer you to send IM your social network friends, share your online content like YouTube videos, Flickr Pictures, etc. with them by a drag & drop feature. It can also show a summary of all your online social networking activities with statistics like the number of friends in each network, activity meter, etc. 8hands will notify you upon receiving any comment, message, friend request, new video or any other event on your and your friends profiles.

Ex.plode.us – Explode is a social search tool that lets you find others online irrespective of which network they are on, as well as those running their own sites and blogs. You can also create your profile on Explode where other users can leave comments.

HypeIt – You can create a HypeIt profile page where you can display a mash up of all your sites and share it among your HypeIt friends. You can vote on their stories on their profile pages, just like in Digg. The most hyped stories get on to the HypeIt homepage. 

Minggl – Minggl is a browser toolbar that lets you organise your social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook allowing you to decide what to show in these sites by password-protecting sections of your profile. You can maintain a single friends list from various sites and email them directly, without the need to navigate to their profile pages.

With Minggl, you can put your profile information in little portable suitcases called Minggl Notes. When you edit these notes, Minggl can push all those changes to other sites/profiles automatically. It is currently available by invitation only.You can request for an invitation.

Naymz – Naymz allow you to create a personal profile page where you can include a brief about yourself like profession and location, and have the links to all your profiles at various social networking sites, blogs, and other sites. Naymz will promote your profile page at the top of Google and monitor it through its ‘Reputation Monitor’ that will let you know everytime your name appears in a new blog, online news article, or Web page.

There is a Naymz Premuim Service that will provide detailed reports of visitors to your profile, top search engine placement in Yahoo and MSN search, and customization of your search engine listing description. There is also a Premium Plus service that will provide SEO service to your profile page.

OtherEgo – This lets you create a Otherego profile page on which you can import all your social network pages, blogs, and sites that you like. You can browse your sites through tabs just like in iGoogle or Netvibes. You can choose which parts of your profile is shown to the public.

Profilactic – Allows you to create a profile page and a mashup of your sites and share it among your friends at Profilactic.

Profileomat – Formerly known as LinkMyBox, Profileomat allows you to list all your personal websites, social networks, blogs, contact info, photo albums and other profiles in one profile page.

Profilefly – Allows you to create a profile page where you can stream all your links and contents from your social networks, blogs, photo sites, emails and IMs, social bookmark sites, personal websites, etc. and share it among your friends at Profilefly.

Profilelinker – This allows you to link your social network profiles in one central location. You can also get message alerts from your favorite social networks, get updates on your friends, search for users across several networks, get your horoscope, weather, sports news and more.

Snag – Snag aggregates information from your accounts at various social networks. Instead of having to visit each of your networks separately, you can find friends, read messages, and get updates from all of your networks in one place by using Snag.

Socialnetwork.in – With this, you can aggregate links to all of your profiles into one page and widget (coming soon), including social networks, chat, VOIP, and other communities. You can aggregate links to social sites you wish to monitor or your friends on various social and chat networks. You can also rate social and chat networks using a 1-10 scales and comments.

Socialurl – This allows you to create an online profile through which you can search for old classmates and love matches, share photo albums online, and control who sees them, or keep them private. You can also organise to-do lists and bookmark favorite sites, and add additional profiles including EBay, Facebook, Myspace, LiveJournal, Yahoo360, YouTube and more. You can also upload your YouTube videos to one profile.

Tabber - This is an online address book on which you can import your contacts from your web email accounts, IM, Outlook, MySpace, Digg, etc. If you ever need a friend’s address, phone number, need to remember their birthday, etc, you can go on Tabber and look it up. It also allows you to get Google map directions to your friends’ houses, organize them through the use of tags, keep up to date on what your friends are doing online, and be alerted of any changes your friends make to their personal data provided they are members of Tabber.

Upscoop – With Upscoop, you can find out which of your contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL contacts are on which social networks. You can also add the Upscoop Social Networks application to your Facebook profile to show off what social networking sites you use.