Retaggr – An Interactive Business Card
May 29 2008 
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I just ran across Retaggr which aims to be an interactive business card or better yet, another lifestream profile. Registration was quick and easy to do. The host of profiles you can add were pretty decent. I’d say around the same amount that MyBlogLog offers, maybe a little more though I’m not entirely sure about this. Here’s an example of my Retaggr business card:
Pretty neat, but doesn’t look very business cardish. I’d change the way the icons are laid out for one and allow for more information aside from my email address (which I turned off) and the fact that I’m in the US. City and state please? Phone numbers? A logo?
You can create various business cards, though I’m not entirely sure why. Possibly for different networks you’d like to hand it out to. All in all, it’s just a different template than what MyBlogLog happens to use and isn’t very customizable as far as CSS is concerned.
Speaking of MyBlogLog, they’ve just added ThisNext, Magnolia and FriendFeed to their great list of services that you can see in your "New with Me" feed.
Unfortunately, my Retaggr business card will be staying right in this post. It doesn’t match my new theme.
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I agree with you about Retaggr. Also, awesome new theme!! Congrats, I like it, really clean!
I agree, the site redesign looks very nice.
Hi Corvida!
Thanks for checking out retaggr :) We're just getting going, so any feedback is welcome.
Couldn't agree with your more – customization is a key part of a card like this, and it's on our todo list. Ultimately you will have a large amount of control over how your card looks.
They key part about retaggr that makes it interesting though is that it follows you around the web. It really is quite different in its focus than mybloglog.
With retaggr, if you comment on another (retaggr enabled) website, your Profile Card will be left there, against your comment, as a popup. When your readers are looking at comments, they can now find out exactly who the commentor is, without leaving your site, and interact with the widgets in the card.
For the blog, this is great, as it adds a whole bunch of relevance and encourages a community that know each other better.
For the person leaving the comment, its good because they can get better visibility on their online life (if they choose), be contactable, and express themself business-wise, or personally.
A good example is this very comment. It will automatically go into my Disqus widget on my card. But I use cocomment too and unfortunately my cocomment comments are invisible to your users. My retaggr card has both, so on a retaggr enabled blog they would see a complete picture.
p.s Great site – added it straight into my RSS reader :)
Great to see a website that cares about what its users think about the service its offering. Cheers Nik.
I liked the other theme way better. but i guess you needed change.
While it's good to see a company that's working hard to engage with its customers and developing its products based on their feedback, I'm not sure of the function of the retaggr. I'm not a fan of the “online business card” in any case, though the lifestream profile idea has more chance of long term success. For the idea of an online business card, I think it's an irrelevant idea. A business card is intended to give people information of how to contact you. All information which is directly linkable to on an individual's website anyway.
Fogofeternity,
Ivailo from retaggr here. I agree with what you are saying to an extent. For example in my case, I do not have a personal website and I blog at my company’s blog, where I can not put links to all my personal online profiles. A life stream works well for people who want to follow me (usually my friends), but if for example someone I have been chatting with on a local review site wants to quickly have a look at where else I review restaurants, it is easier if I am using a “business card”, rather then having to dig through my lifestream.
You can create various business cards, though I’m not entirely sure why. Possibly for different networks you’d like to hand it out to
thanks for the wonderful idea Retaggr – An Interactive Business Card