Power.com: A One-Stop Shop for Social Networkers
Power.com, a Web start-up from Brazil with some prominent backers, aims to become the portal through which people access their online social lives. Power.com brings together all the networks you have on social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut , as well on instant-messaging networks like AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger. Power.com’s investors include the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson, the technology investor and analyst.
To begin using its service, it forces you to sign into all of your networks from a single page at Power.com. In this way, it is like the IM aggregator Meebo. Meebo lets you sign into all the IM services you want to use, and lets you do so from a single Web page.If you visit one of the social networks through the Power site, the pages are marked up with additional functionality. Click a button to start chatting with the user over MSN chat, if they are a Power.com use
In summary, here are the main features it offers right now:
–Enjoy all your friends from your Facebook, Myspace, Google, MSN, and other sites, brought together on Power.com
–Read and respond to your messages from all your sites in one place at Power.com
–Enter and browse all your social network, email, and IM accounts simultaneously with one login at Power.com
–Use MSN Messenger inside your Facebook, Myspace, Hi5, and Orkut at Power.com (Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, and AOL Instant Messenger coming soon)
–Send messages, photos, and videos to multiple friends simultaneously on all your sites, email, and IM from Power.com
–Access Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, or Myspace from blocked computers at work or school through Power.com
–Interact with with users from all social networks around the world in Power.com chat rooms
–Use Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook Mail, and work email together in one place at Power.com (coming soon)
–Synchronize and manage all your photos, music, applications, blogs, and videos on all sites at Power.com (coming soon)
–Add LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, Blogger, and Skype to your Power.com start page (coming soon
