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My cofounders and I at The Shared Web hacked this together one of the days this weekend. It lets you indicate all your social services, and then we create a pretty signature you can put in your email. Definitely a MVP, but it works - so we put it up. Thought it would be a useful service for people. Would love to know what you think!

You'll notice one of the social services is The Shared Web. We're going to be launching The Shared Web publicly soon, so feel free to sign up at www.thesharedweb.com for our beta invite list!

I'm firmly in the "email should be plain text" camp but this is nicely done.

On the brighter side, this will also appeal to those who already have atrocious e-mail signatures and improve your encounter with them.

Sometimes you have to play their own game.

You're right. We were inspired to do this after using rapportive and finding it very useful to have the picture of the person who is emailing you show up.

Why can't I add my own website to my signature?

It'll be there eventually. I think they're waiting to implement it, until they include a general placeholder that fetches the favicon.

+1 totally agree. think this is the biggest oversight of an otherwise cool service.

needs to include your personal website/blog & company site/blog as options

Typo "textare" in footer.

You mention creating a signature "like this one" but then the actual signature creates an ad for the service as an extra - obviously you want word to spread, but there might be a more subtle way to do that, and also disclose it in the example - a ? icon maybe?

I know it's an MVP, but you could have a few theme/style options pretty easily - different layouts, icon sets, colour schemes, etc.

Good luck.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely disclose in it in the example and think of a more subtle way to help other people find out about it. We actually added it in at the end - that's why it is not in the picture example - and we thought it would be okay because you can delete the link once you paste the signature in Gmail. If people like this, we'll definitely consider spending some more time adding a few themes/styles, or open it up so others can create themes for it.

Maybe have a checkbox (checked by default) and "Help spread the word about this free service." They can uncheck that to skip the little ad.

It's a bit of an indie site, but http://endor.se could also be interesting as an optional addition.

flavors.me and a general website link would also be great.

endor.se looks very interesting. We may consider the ability to enter any site you want and we'll try to grab the fav icon for it, so we can show it nicely in the signature.

Sounds like the best way to approach it.

Only the basic services are necessary, as they give people an idea of what the service can be used for.

A laundry list of service icons in your signature also gives a slightly ... weird impression. :)

Please add a stackoverfow icon? As a developer, SO is basically my resume.

Will do. Thanks for the suggestion.

if facebook picture isn't public, shows broken image. Also would like to add my own links. Maybe provide a few additional fields with a generic web icon.

Definitely. Will add option of which image to use (twitter, fb, linkedin or quora profile pic), or perhaps even let users upload a service.

Will also add the ability to create field with a generic web icon.

Thanks for the feedback!

You should just use Gravatar.

Gravatar looks interesting - will check it out, and see if we can incorporate it. Thanks for the headsup.

The Copy to Clipboard button doesn't appear to be working for me in Firefox 4.

Will take a look at that right now.

The profile image brought in from Twitter was broken when I tried it out.

Hey, did you use an FB account as well? It tries to use your FB pic first if an FB username is specified, and then goes for the Twitter pic if no FB username is specified

I didn't add my FB Account at all, so it had nothing to pull from there.

Hmm.. give it a go again and let me know if it's still buggy - I think it should be fixed.

Can you add about.me?

That's meta. Yes. I think will just do something where you can select from a bunch of different services to add. Will take a quick stab at it today :).

Perhaps add hackernews as well as an option?

>Perhaps add hackernews as well as an option?

I'm sure a lot of people would love that.

GitHub is also a must.

Great suggestions. We'll take a look at those.

would be great to allow you to link to a blog

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