Are you a chump for putting all your data on social networking and media sites and not having any real control over it? chi.mp thinks so. chi.mp is a service for owning and managing your online identity, and is now open to the public. Previously in private beta, chi.mp ( which stands for Content Hub & Identity Management Platform), allows people to bring together their presence on from all over the web in one place. Chi.mp basically gives users (for free) their own domain and Web site and gives them full ownership over the content, letting them create a “social hub.”
chi.mp is kind of like having your own FriendFeed. It offers users a free “.mp” domain name, allowing users to get a free web site that includes Open ID, social network profiles, an activity stream, a blog, photo albums and other tools to import content and contacts from Twitter, Flickr, Gmail or Yahoo, and any site with RSS or Atom feeds. chi.mp also includes a contact management system called the ‘Ultimate Black Book’, a tiered privacy tool called ‘Personas’ and the ability to publish and push content to other sites and social networks, such as Facebook.
The ‘Personas’ feature on chi.mp lets owners create multiple versions of themselves for different audiences. This feature is useful when wanting to differentiate your identity for your work place, for instance, from your online identity for friends. And its comforting to have full ownership over your profile and information about you on the web. Ownership over users content can be a complicated issue, according to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. ch.imp is also somewhat similar to .Tel’s service of aggregating personal information via a domain name. But .Tel doesn’t provide a free service to mashup, import and organize your online information like chi.mp.
Of course there are plenty of other social network and web information aggregators like Nomee (a desktop app) and FriendFeed (a web application) but chi.mp’s key difference is the user’s ownership over the domain and the content. Is that enough to get people to use it, though? The nice thing about FriendFeed, for instance, is that other people actually go there.
This is a wonderful idea, and I’m signing up now.
To the chi.mp team … two days ago I went to domai.nr to buy a .mp . That site led me to 101domain.com and I was able through them to buy la.mp but then the next day it was rejected.
It seems chi.mp owns many .mp domain names. Are you gonna sell them?
Chi.mp owns ALL the unclaimed .mp domain names.
La.mp is for sale along with many others. Contact me (info on my website) and I’ll connect you with the people you need.
Yeah I m too going to sign up for it. It’ looks awesome..
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
“But .Tel doesn’t provide a free service to mashup, import and organize your online information like chi.mp.”
Exactly right. Because it’s about contact information, not content. It’s also accessible from any device connected to the internet. Not a vanity website. It’s also ‘click to connect’. It can also be accessed WITHOUT having to go through a web browser. And it’s meant not to compete with any existing service that you use, whilst providing easy access of contact information under the control of the user, that can be shared with 1024-bit encryption with people you want to share it with.
So the two don’t compare, compete or correspond in terms of the service they provide.
But still, it’s nice to see at least one article on TechCrunch that can mention .tel in a factual way – thank you for that!
Justin Hayward
Telnic Limited
justin.tel
I’ve met some of the developers of chi.mp (Anthony Eden and Matthew Williams), and they are some of the coolest people I’ve encountered in the Florida technology community. Not only do they have the chops, they are passionate people that truly care.
I’ve been keeping up with the updates they’ve been making to chi.mp, and I have to say, other services have a lot of catching up to do if they want to keep up with the standard chi.mp has set for identity on the web. I highly recommend!
Congrats to Anthony, just read that he’s now the alpha male of the development team there:
http://twitter.com/exectrax
Cool product idea.
Ugly pages though – looks like myspace.
.Tel looks a lot better.
Great site! Maybe it’s just me, but I “get” this much more than Friendfeed.
I just signed up and plan to try it out.
i think the idea behind this is good, i havent checked it out other than reading this but it sounds like something worthwhile. The other thing I wonder about is: for people who have multiple usernames, accounts, etc, is there any management service for that? when i think about people who use one username for everything and then possibly use the same password it could cause security risks if people crack your password… ultimately they could have access to all your accounts… is there some type of program that can hold your information and then create passwords for you and store that info? thought it would be a good tool
Mike – you might want to look at http://www.simplepassword.com. Use a single password to generate different passwords for each website.
Just got my account and reviewed it briefly. For a identity management platform, it doesn’t address the issue of whether the identities are real or not made up. I must admit, I do like the idea of a free domain name.
Dude, go back to writing kickass essays.
It’s better way to mobilize into an account of SB.I better look into it.Thanks for sharing
FriendFeed and Chi.mp are not comparable services. FriendFeed is an aggregator, Chi.mp is your identity online. The fact that Chi.mp can also aggregate a few services is just a side-effect. Chi.mp really doesn’t compete directly with any of your current social services.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/W9v3
If they are really concerned about people owning their own web identity then why don’t they release an open-source script that does this so that you can store and backup your own stuff on your own server?
Correct…until that is done, all this talk about “owning” your information is just rhetoric.
To make this a killer tool IMO it needs to also integrate to LinkedIN. Without that I can’t really see any great value in the multiple persona aspect or the ultimate black book.
It sounds so close to being great.
all these none .com ending domains needs to be doom for failure. it is not cute
Don’t think they’re trying to be cute — I think the lack of good .com domains are driving the adoption of non .coms
Hey Tech Crunch,
When are you going to start discussing business ideas that aren’t directly/indirectly related to twitter and facebook?
Talk about a one trick pony…
Funny you should mention that, since the post before this one was titled
“Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself for $25M”
Wait, wait… how about the one right before that:
“Disney Online Buys Kaboose Assets For $18.4 Million, Barclays Private Equity Limited Acquires Its UK Operations”
Or…
“There’s more Than One Way To Skin a Firefox”
You should probably check out the rest of the blog before you make comments that make absolutely no sense.
Very interesting and well done, although I agree that enhanced integration is important to make everything in the toy box work well together. Another great aggregation play that I learned about recently is Scrapplet (http://www.scrapplet.com). I got an introduction to it by the man behind the scenes last week – Steve Repetti. Incredibly impressive technologist and business innovator … looking forward to seeing how it evolves and gets tied to other major platforms out there. Keep an eye out on this one … or better yet, sign up and check it out yourself!
One more FYI about a comment above – “really doesn’t compete directly with any of your current social services.” There are many applications and services out there. I think the really innovative newcomers are going to figure out ways to leverage and enhance the existing ones for and with their millions of users around the world … there’s more value to that at this stage of the game than trying to beat the 800 pound gorillas.
> key difference is the user’s ownership over
> the domain and the content
amen – and they list data portability as #2 in their bill of rights.
la.me
Single point of privacy failure.
Congrats to the Chi.mp folks! I’ve been a beta user since September 2008 and think it’s a great product — I’ve loved watching its evolution!
More so, as a board member of the DataPortability Project (www.dataportability.org), I am REALLY excited at the OPENID integration and the promise of things to come related to data portability!
@IANGERTLER: Thanks for the plug for http://www.scrapplet.com, however this is the CHI.MPs big day in the sun and I applaud their initiatives!
Go big monkey!
Steve Repetti
http://www.radwebtech.com
http://www.scrapplet.com
http://www.twit...om/steverepetti
http://www.dataportability.org
Chimps are apes, not monkeys.
Almost as interesting as:
http://www.prlo...ant-smells.html
Can someone explain to me the business model here?
ok
understood
AWESOME company!! These guys ROCK!!
funny how a site that talks about “owning” has this clause in the “chimp addendum” (page 2, section 4)
“You acknowledge and agree that (i) the DNS for your .MP Domain Name shall be controlled
solely by Saipan DataCom; (ii) all Customer Content shall reside on Saipan DataCom’s or its authorized
contractor’s servers”
sounds like ownership to me!
Chi.mp 2.2 Updates: http://tinyurl.com/d3feyg )
What I see so far I like. Very slick and easy to use.
http://www.jeffweber.mp
Out of MYvosi LLC, comes the face of Web 3.0, Maurice Valentino. Valentino never thought that out of his humble past that he would soon be the creator and innovator of the newest web technology that positions him to become the next Internet billionaire.
The Firm United LLC, which is a holding company for several companies including MYvosi LLC which houses Valentino’s genius creation, Myvosi Web 3.0, the wave of the future.
Myvosi Web 3.0 is a media/data exchange tool, a search engine that gains knowledge of the user the more it is used. It can be used for networking, it offers the most up to date encryption for product being sold/personal information and has a virtual mall with a presence of 250,000 national and international vendors in contract.In addition to your own personal virtual assistant that controls your every experience desire.
“It will challenge us and move us into the future now,” says Valentino. The site offers human deductive reasoning and inference. “Imagine a machine with personality that’s proactive,sounds like efficiency to me.” states The Face Of Web 3.0(Maurice Valentino).
Valentino also went on to explain in more detail what to expect from MYvosi LLC and Web 3.0.”MYvosi Web 3.0 is the successful marriage of artificial intelligence and the web. In addition we want to be efficient not only from an economical and an environmental perspective but also from an individual and technological perspective. Web 1.0 was for all to read, Web 2.0 was for all write and Web 3.0 is and will be for all to innovate.” personalize your future, live out your potential. Myvosi web 3.0 allows you to search by sentences not eliminating the keyword based search but expanding on it. You can type in sentences and in turn it would return relevant results and suggest other content related to your search terms. You can ask your browser questions such as “where can i go for lunch” and it will provide you, based on your likes & dislikes something suitable (human deductive Reasoning).”Many fear that this detailed information about them will be exposed, but it is the exact opposite,” says Valentino. Your likes and dislike /personal information are not publicized they are on an encrypted network using the same encryption’s as the one used by the major banks in the world(ex. the TLS and the high 128 bit encryption). This graduates the common concept of the current web, typing in the same information and getting the same information. What’s now offered is a unique individual experience on the web tailored to fit you personality. Myvosi Web 3.0 consist partially of “mashup” applications. An example would be looking up restaurants and have it tie in to another application(GPS) giving you place and directions. Myvosi Web 3.0 has the most intelligent software agent at the click of a button. You can share data files securely and efficiently without the threat of viral and other harmful applications (worms,Trojan horses,malware,etc) infecting your computer.A quote from Thomas Chille” For manifesting a web 3.0, we need a web 3.0. We need a real evolutionary shift in the perception of the web by the end users. Much like the paradigm shift in involving the user generated content for web 2.0.” Its purpose is to educate, create, and innovate the end User’s experience of the Web’s resources. It is the web’s Advanced Version Of the 3 dimensional giant”Second Life,”but Extremely user efficient. The applauding moment was simply this stated by The Face Of Web 3.0 “Most importantly Web 3.0 Is all of you. It isn’t the dominating player with the most Bank. It is about you (the user). We as individuals craft web 3.0. we all have a major role in its implementation” says Valentino. This is just an overview what Myvosi Web 3.0 offers. The detailed version would require a 1,000 paged text book and far superceeds what was said today. Myvosi Web 3.0 launch date is in the summer (July) of 2010.
Special Acknowledgments:
*Barack Obama in his spirited aura of change
*Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau who created the World Wide Web at CERN
*James Hendler An artificial Intelligence Researcher
*Nigel Richard Shadbolt founder of the Web Science Research Initiative
*Ora Lassila a Finnish computer scientist
*Computer Science University of Southampton
*Artificial intelligence department @ University of Edinburgh
*Eric Schmidt CEO Of Google
*Doug Lenat Computer Scientist Ceo of Cycorp
*Kevin Kelly Great Mind
If I left anyone out you are not forgotten, but for the sake of time, many more I give thanks to. Thank you all for your research , your time invested in making us better and more efficient economically and environmentally, America and the World thanks you.
A few pioneers of Green Energy who deserve recognition
*Scott mcnealy co founder of sun micro systems say that technology of the Internet is the most planetary efficient way of conducting business
*John Doer partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
says that Germany is the largest buyer of solar cells around the world
“These are point that should be noticed and implemented in our economic and environmental strategy and conducive to like such recovery” Says Valentino
*MIT chemist Daniel Nocera
*Thomas Hinderling innovator who wants to build solar island to make us more efficient.
*Texas oilmen like T. Boone Pickens started pushing alternative energy
*Steven Chu head the Department of Energy
just to name a few.
“These are a few of the people who have inspired me to offer the Next generation ready platform. I look at their stories and their desire to innovate and to make better. These are things and mindsets I was conceived in. These Great minds gave me the foundation to start myvosi and change the future. So I personally feel they deserve a great deal of recognition” Says The Face Of Web 3.0 Maurice Valentino
chi.mp…thats what by last girlfriend called me when she kicked me out the door….not sure folks aspire to being chimps
Congrats to the chi.mp team! Big day for Hawaii Tech
Um, your comparison of chi.mp to .tel is like saying, “Chi.mp is like the web, but it’s free and you can mash some widgets together”.
.tel is a service platform, not a website.
How long do you spend researching subjects that you write about? I’d rather see fewer posts on TC and much more thoughtful analysis.
Just created an account with chi.mp seems good services…
Will people ever get sick of signing up for online profile type websites? LOL
Okay, so I went to sign up, but they’re down for maintenance. Figures!…
I think this will be great for advanced and savvy social users.
wtf is chimp?
I like chi.mp to, but if you want to try a European competitor .. have a look at http://www.yiid.com
ya, its getting to be a bit of a hassle these days when you have to create a login and password for everything. its a security risk to use the same login and password, but i know its hard to keep up with all the different passwords and logins. check out this free digital security resource site, here is a link about safe password practices. it has some good tips about this topic
I know it’s a little late to the party but I interviewed Rob Farrow, the then VP of Marketing, about what Chi.mp had to offer earlier in the year. The interviews now been published and you canread it on sixcrayons.com if you’re interested.