With different social networking sites I am registering on, sometimes I am lazy to fill up the profile section. No account profile contains the exact information about me. So I was grateful to find ProfileBuilder.com, a new online identity management platform, founded by Boyan Josic.
With this site, I can set up an online personal profile page for free and include my Profile.es icon across the web like in Facebook, Friendster, eBay, Linkedin, Match.com, and other sites that welcome HTML Code.
It is easy to register, and only requires your name, e-mail address, username, and password. By the way, you need to open www.profilebuilder.com with an Internet Explorer 7 browser, or in Mozilla Firefox.
What I like most about this product are the following features they claim:
- I can manage the information I want to show in my profile by location (websites where I included the code from Profile Builder). I can either include or remove any one of these on my Profile Page: Photos, Resume, Links, Blog, Contact, Twitter, and other Channels like eBay.
- I can track where and when my profile is being accessed with their statistics feature.
- I can change the color of my profile page to match with my personality. There’s more options coming for page customization!
- And more exposure! I can put the feeds of up to 5 of my blogs, and show the items I sell in eBay!
As of now, the product is on its beta stage, so it is nice to let ProfileBuilder.com know the problems I encountered when I was using the product.
- Though I can easily understand how to use their dashboard, there was a button here that isn’t working properly or missing.
- In managing channels option, I wanted to add or design my own so I click Design your own button, but it didn’t work. I tried clicking the word �or� just because my mouse cursor changed to a hand, but it led me back to my dashboard.
- To save time, I cut and paste my resume from my Word file, but it turned out to be more trouble. It does not appear on the profile page. So I have to type my resume in the dashboard. Yeah, it is just a one time effort, but isn’t it more convenient if I can upload my word or pdf file? I found out through their FAQ, though, that they are currently working with flashpaper to add a very cool feature for the Resume page. Therefore, we still have to wait for a couple of weeks before we can spread our outstanding resume across the web.
- How do I add an HTML code with Javascript on my Facebook and Friendster page?
- Profile Builder claims that I can put my online personal page on Facebook and Friendster, but these two sites do not allow any code with Javascript. Though I can add an application that enables HTML code in Facebook, this is how the Profil.es icon will look like on such an application�barely visible. Profile Builder suggests putting your name before the icon, and I did.
- I’d rather fill up the Profile section of my account on these sites and add tons of cool applications to show my friends who I really am, than having a barely visible icon that supposedly direct people to know more about me. But this mini icon could work well if you include it in an online article that mentions you. Put the icon next to your name, like Marycris Guevarra
. (Click the icon) - The code does not work in my Friendster profile page, unless I put the code as a comment in my profile, or put the icon in my Friendster blog, or in Blogger.
Overall, I still find the product innovative. Besides the beta version just launched this July 29. They are still working on new tools and products to be added on the site. So, we can still expect a lot of improvements like customizing the look of our profile. Registration is free so experience it for yourself. They welcome feedback in order to improve the product.
I find Profile Builder helpful to employers and people looking for a job, or to those individuals out there who want to promote their works or businesses across the web. Everyone can search any profile made in www.profilebuilder.com in www.profil.es, by using the name of the person or by using keywords.
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Disclosure: The above was a sponsored post, however the review was written to be as honest and un-biased as possible.
