Username Check

If you are particular about having a unified username accross all the sites you use, then this tool could come in handy. With todays increasing messy password and user account environment it does make it slightly easier to manage your online identity with a unified username. KnowEm checks about 370 popular social and media websites for your username and displays the results in catagories.

A tool like this may be increasingly useful for businesses who want to secure thier brand and avoid cyber squatting or brand defacing. KnowEm also has a paid premium service which allows you to automatically register your username on the searched social and media websites. The site’s service is targeted at everyone from the individual to a fortune 500 company. According to KnowEm, they have already secured over 100 000 profiles. – KnowEm

This is one tool in one way trying to make it easier to deal with your online life, having to remember many username and password combinations, which lead to weak passwords and security threats, is a clumsy effort. Other solutions such as the open ID system also look promising, however unfortunately the heavy weight sites besides Google seem reluctant to add support for open ID

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