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DialUsername seeks your identity here and there

By Angela Gunn | Published March 24, 2009, 3:38 PM

It's allegedly designed to help folk manage their online identities by spotting where "their" usernames might be in use without their knowledge, but DialUsername can also provide some amusement for a slow day at work. Find all the services you never even heard of among their list of 68, then rush to them and register your preferred username, just in case the service becomes popular. We can call it Land Rush Tuesday or something.

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adoxos
Mar 25, 2009 - 9:41 AM

Tons of false positives (Behance, Colourlovers, Diigo, Favtape, Iliketotallyloveit and many more but I'm getting tired of typing). This doesn't appear to do much other than promote fledgling "social" websites in an attempt to up their total number of members. It'd be interesting to see who started it ...

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mdotwills
Mar 25, 2009 - 5:50 AM

False positives here. Just to clear that up...

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CultureKillsMC
Mar 24, 2009 - 7:30 PM

Ooh... I can see this turning into stalker central as well... (if you know someone's preferred user name, you can find out where else they might be online). REE REE REE REE!

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Anastasia2007
Mar 24, 2009 - 5:29 PM

It's wrong on some sites.

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Angela Gunn
Mar 24, 2009 - 5:42 PM

False-positive or false-negative?

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speedmeister
Mar 24, 2009 - 11:39 PM

I seem to be getting a lot of false negatives. I typed in a couple different random strings that are unlikely to be registered anywhere and this site lists the names as being taken on eBay, Linkedin, Odeo, and Pandora whether there was profile available or not.

This is definitely a work in progress.

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