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Social networking is all the rave right now – Facebook, Myspace, FriendFeed, Flickr, Twitter and the list goes on.  Even content providers like YouTube and Hulu have a social networking aspect to their site.  Keeping all of your profiles updated throughout the Internet can be a real chore, but there is some relief.  DandyID Services is an aggregator that allows you to enter all of your online identities and then allows you to easily display them (via a Javascript widget) anywhere you can post (and run) code on the web.  DandyID is still in beta (much of it closed) and I have not gotten to test any other functionality besides the Javascript widget seen in the right-hand column of my blog.  It has made my life somewhat easier when changing contact info on my networks.  I pull up DandyID and just cruise through the list changing information. 

While I do value the service that is being provided by DandyID, I think there is huge potential if they are able to go the extra step and make it possible to change information on DandyID and have those changes cascade down to a users different social networks.  I’m a big proponent of the OpenID initiative, but have yet to see it made truly functional with the major social networks like Facebook.  I’m sure there are lots of kinks to be worked out before we will see a true web-wide ID system.