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I just received my beta pass for Chi.mp

Some of you may know what Chi.mp is, but some may still be asking, “What’s that about?!”
Basically, its a website designed to manage and control all your other sites. Simply put, it’s where you manage your whole online life.

You can import all your contacts from multiple sources, manage them all, and it will automatically keep the other sites up to date, eg. in Facebook and Gmail.

I’ve been playing around with a profile for a little bit. Check out my progress here: Savell.mp. I still have some work to do, but it’s coming on.

Another great function of Chi.mp is OpenID!
Although Chi.mp did not create OpenID, it does support it.

Chi.mp turns your domain into a passport for thousands of sites across the web. Instead of having to log in with countless different usernames and passwords (or if you’re the lazy type, all for one and one for all), just type in your domain address, e.g. http://savell.mp.

The great thing is, your username and password that you specify for Chi.mp works with all other sites that support OpenID. So if you have a Chi.mp account, you can log into Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and many other sites all with one account, as for me, http://savell.mp then my password. This greatly helps to keep things organised, and is basically a great idea.

You will know where you can use your OpenID when you see this logo:

But you don’t want just anyone viewing everything on there now, do you?
You don’t want your boss to keep track of your personal life, and your friends to keep track of your work.
With Chi.mp you simply tag services or things you would like people to see. So, seeing as I only want family to see family-related items, I can tag them as ‘family’ and they’ll be able to see everything i want them to see. When they come to savell.mp they will only see things that are specifically tagged for them.

The only issue I’ve had was when I tried to import multiple contacts that I exported from MobileMe. Granted I was exporting ALL my contacts into a single vCard to then be uploaded to Chi.mp, but I kept being faced with errors. I’ve logged a ticket on Chi.mp support so I’ll keep you updated.

*Update*
Support have not replied, but Chi.mp has gone into Beta, so its a step up, adding new themes, and other services. I tried again to update my contacts, and this time was successful.

I know it’s not the end of the world, as it imported all my contacts from Gmail. But still, it would be nice if it worked.
Another thing is that they don’t currently support MobileMe at all. This includes the Galley. It would have been nice to add something other than a Flickr gallery. Although the site is still currently in Alpha, they might still add support for this at a later stage.

You can get more info here from Chi.mp
Or more info on OpenID here
Or just check out my Chi.mp at Savell.mp