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.
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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