— Rekeeb.com

A Contacts Manager

A Contact Manager to organise and arrange **all your digital contacts**. Period.
###my Contacts###
I use these tools and they all have **contacts**:

* **[Twitter](http://twitter.com/patrizio)** — for daily ruminations (*310 contacts*)
* **Skype** — mostly private chatting and sometimes business (*91 contacts*)
* **E-mail** — various private addresses:
– **@gmail.com** — common usage and most easily accessible (*~500 contacts*)
– **@rekeeb.com** — mostly private and work-related (*unknown*)
– **@hotmail.com** — fun and backup address (*190 contacts*)
* **MSN** — for chatting with ordinary folks (*~70/190 contacts*)
* **Gtalk** — for chatting a bit more tech-savy friends (*~20/500 contacts*)
* **[Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/beeker/)** — picture sharing (*21 contacts*)
* **[LinkedIn](http://nl.linkedin.com/in/patrickbeeker)** — for business contacts (*202 contacts*)
* **Hardcopy address book** — for the snail mail address of friends&family who are less tech-savy (*~50 contacts*)
* **Mobile phone** — names and numbers actually speak to people (*194 contacts*)


###TOTAL CONTACTS: 1558###
That is a lot of contacts. And I am even a modest Dutch guy — not some hotshot like [Vincent Everts](http://www.vincente.nl/?page_id=326), [Erwin Blom](http://www.erwinblom.nl/), or [Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten](http://bomega.com/about/).

And yes of course there is a **huge overlap** in this number of contacts — for most people I have their MSN, Gtalk, ánd Skype contact. But guess what? There are all stored on **different places**. If I want to delete an ex-girlfriend — I have to do delete her at six different places!
###SO WHAT?##
I desire **a single app** where I can control all my contacts in **one place**. And my contacts *flow* to my other social tools from there. Fluidly. Just like Twitter: frictionless. And it allows my to easily **manage my Avatars** on my **social networks**. So for example on a Monday morning I can tune:

* MSN– A **moody** me (its autumn!)
* Twitter — A **smiling** me (since I’ve met somebody nice over the weekend in Amsterdam)

Either A) this tool **already exists** and somebody kind enough will post it below in the comments or B) we start making this tool and I will command-it-like-Steve-Jobs and make a **groovy social contact manager**.

***Thanks** to Lennert Vermeulen and Reinder de Vries for making me write this post and coming up with the idea.*

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  • http://www.reinderdevries.nl Reinder

    I just noticed I wrote in Dutch. Need coffee.

  • http://www.reinderdevries.nl rednieR

    Patrick,

    Dacht vanochtend ook aan bijv. Plaxo of Tungle. My name is E al geprobeerd voor ‘identity’? Op mijn eigen netwerk heb ik mijn sociale netwerken als identiteit ingezet, might be interesting.

    Denk er over na (en heb een gebrek aan tijd), maar we kunnen zeker wat met dit idee. Denk aan een alles mashup tot iDAV/LDAP of webservice.

  • http://www.rekeeb.com/ Patrick Beeker

    I’ve tried Soocial (http://soocial.com) before but and I didn’t convince at that time. Mainly due to limited interactive usage (e.g. drag&drop) and I missed something like http://card.ly/as a pivot point. But I will try it again.

    I’m afraid this contact-thing is actually the tip of an iceberg. And in reality part of a much bigger topic: Identity. See for example: http://www.htmltimes.com/chris-messina.php

  • Lex

    check soocial (NL) of plaxo?

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