Social Networking and web profiles

A VC had a good post on social browsers and the question of centralized profiles and linking social networks. I had to comment on it. Here's a link to the post and a copy of my comment.
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/04/what_is_a_socia.html

You read my mind. I have spent a fair amount of time the last few days trying to find a grown-up MySpace that would be oriented toward a professional that has a full life. Like you, I wanted one central place for my profile, blogs, links etc., that I could control and post information about all my activities. Basically a personal web page (Geocities?) in a social network with blogging. If Google integrated many of its features that might be close. I want that because I am a financial professional, but am also writing a book and have done some comedic writing, blogging and performing. If I had my profile and links to all that information in one place, there would be fewer surprises for anyone that searches for me online and finds information out of context. I got this idea from a ComputerWorld article posted on Web Worker
Daily, "Web Anonymity can sink your job search"

webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/28/why-you-may-need-an-online-persona/

I would use this service to post links to my LinkedIn profiles, myspace etc. on that one page and give that address out as my sole web presence, rather than the current myspace,twitter, etc list.

I agree that such a thing would be better as a web-based service rather than a browser so it can be accessed anywhere.

Here's what I have found so far: I searched through Download Squad and posted a request for help on Twitter. Tumblr was an early suggestion but there are limits on blog functionality for commenting. I then started this blog to have the functionality and to have flexibility on my subject matter. I found Vox by accident while looking through Twitter profiles. I believe it's the closest thing to what I am seeking. However, I spent over an hour this morning writing and posting my profile only to find it formatted as one giant run on paragraph. Apparently the profile formatting capability is not finished, yet that was the key reason I subscribed. So back to square one, although I have not given up hope on Vox. There was an article on Business Week that mentioned Adesso "tubes", itLinkz and gather.com, but I've kissed enough frogs on this project for today.

The bottom line is I think you're on target regarding the need, there might be a number of way to execute that would not necessarily require opening of social networks. I envision a few different services: yours could be fredwilson.geocities and mine could be cathleenritt.vox. Given all the services already out there, it seems like it would be an "easy" one to create. I am not an expert, more of a web 2.0 fan, but it seems that some services are part way there and others have not necessarily executed well on features important to me. That's what makes a market.

Thank you for putting this out there for the marketplace and providers to see and discuss. See you on Vox, myspace, technorati, etc.