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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