Cool Avatars & Network Aggregation Profiles: mEgo

I'm going to review a few of these over the next couple of weeks, because they're fun. I had planned to start with profilebuilder, but woke this morning to find many hits on Watermark from mEgo, which linked to me (and several others) on its homepage. So I will begin with this, which is my favorite anyway.

Here is a quick sample, collected from browsing on the home page, of the range of visual possibilities this offers:

The actual flash versions are animated, and interactive. The buttons take you to content selected by the user.

mEgo was created with the mission to make managing and sharing your online selves a more coherent, fun and useful experience...

Think of your mEgo as having two parts:

• A physical body and background that you design
• and
• Customizable content (consisting of polls, feeds & profile data) that is categorized and linked to "hot spots" on your mEgo's body.

When you are creating your mEgo, you use the Looks editor to design the appearance of your mEgo. You can change your look as often as you want. You can also upload your own pictures, edit them with our Crop & Style photo editing tool and modify other background settings.

You then use the Feed and Content editors to further customize your mEgo with your own personal data.

This is probably not appropriate for use on a professional or business webpage -- unless you happen to be a professional creative -- but it seems ideal for a personal weblog. This one also works on MySpace, which I gather is picky about these things.

Pros:

• Fun, attractive, and very customizable.
• Inspires creativity -- a real opportunity to think about and express yourself.
• A lot of content in a small space.

Cons:

• This is beta. Beta = buggy. I had a hard time getting the home page to load today; and when it did load, it was slow, and/or crashed my browser. Perhaps they have been more successful than anticipated, and are overloaded.
• Not visible to those who disable flash.

I had a lot of fun making mine, which you can see below the cut:

   

 

 

 

If you like this sort of thing, or are looking for a profile for your blog, this just might be for you.

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