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An app that tracks your forum activity and displays all your private messages, thread subscriptions, etc. all in one app.

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A big problem I have is I want to post a single question to a forum and be on my way. I hate having to sign up. Same deal but worse with mailing lists. What if your app had login accounts to the top say 10,000 forums so people could pop in and post questions some how?

Some forum software accepts openID now. I agree completely, at this point I have so many forum accounts on random sites where I just needed to ask one question pertaining to some program or something. The other day I needed to ask a question on some forum and was about to make a new account when I found that I already had made an account. Now I've decided to only use openID for new forums if possible and just not join others unless I think I'll participate a lot.

Kind of like a mint.com of internet activities? I like the idea. I'm not sure how easy it would be to be exhaustive. I can see how you could add the regular places you hang out at. Casual comments would be harder to track but a bookmarklet could help there.

But isn't that kind of like a YC startup? I forgot the name though but I remember the website being a place where you could follow people's comments on blogs. Is your idea focused on forums?

I like the idea.

Maybe you are referring to Disqus.

I think you mean http://www.backtype.com/.

Yes I was thinking about this one. Thanks!

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