There’s a lot of corners and niches around the Web 2.0, meaning that your online world is split up among all these places. Mugshot is a website that aggregates your data from most of the major Web 2.0 services out there and display it on a single page for anyone to see, however it’s pretty apparent that the site was designed by someone who couldn’t come up with an original idea of their own.

Once you sign up for Mugshot, your account page lets you add your real name, a short bio, a picture/avatar, your e-mail address (only visible by Mugshot friends), your AIM name(s) (only visible by Mugshot friends), and URLs to your website and blog. Mugshot then has support for the following Web 2.0 services: Amazon, del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google Reader, Last.fm, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Picasa, Reddit, Rhapsody, Twitter, and YouTube. Each service lets you choose between “I love it!”, which lets you enter your username for it, or “I hate it!”, which lets you enter a short reason why you “hate” the service. (You can probably guess what I have set for MySpace…)

Last.fm also includes “Music Radar”, a feature ripped off from Last.fm, which can display the music that you’re listening to (and provides an HTML badge for your site), and “Application statistics”, a feature ripped off from Wakoopa, to log and track which applications you use.

On your “home” (see mine), Mugshot will display your bio, links to all the services you listed, show your latest Flickr photos, YouTube videos and Picasa albums, and then on the bottom will display your “Stacker”, which lists your Twitter statuses, blog posts, Facebook notifications, music, etc. It also displays the same for any friends you may have, although personally I wish there was a way to toggle that on/off. One of the things that is kind of weird about the “home” is that Mugshot doesn’t seem to have grasped the Web 2.0 concept of permalinks, and the URL to your Mugshot home is really confusing. Oh, and Mugshot has a software app for showing your Stacker on your desktop, but it’s not Mac-compatible (as of the writing of this post), so I won’t spend time dwelling on that.

And one of the weird things about Mugshot: it actually discourages you from setting a password! Although you can certainly set a password for yourself, whoever designed Mugshot seems to have this crazy idea that every time you log in, you can just have them send a login link to your e-mail address which you click on to log in! I don’t know about you, I personally think that’s more hassle than just entering an e-mail address and password.

There are probably a number of websites which can’t come up with a great Web 2.0 idea of their own and instead settle with aggregating all the other sites into single, consolidated pages for users. Among this category, Mugshot is probably the best website for doing just that: grabbing your stuff from all of these Web 2.0 sites and displaying them in one central location. However, the service still has a bit of maturing to do before it will be more highly regarded by most users. Nevertheless, there’s probably nothing wrong with setting up an account on there, like I did. (Oh and by the way, add me as a friend!)

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Tags: friends, identities, network, photos, review, services, Web 2.0