<p><a href="http://ideias3.com">Ideias3</a> is now one year old and this weblog will also be in a few days. Since its beginning, I&#8217;ve been using it as the center of my web activity. It has my <a href="http://junk.ideias3.com/hCard/?url=alcidesfonseca.com">hCard</a>, it is my OpenId, it has my <span class="caps">XFN</span> friend list, it has me links to all my social profiles. Although typing in your browser&#8217;s address bar &#8220;alcides fonseca&#8221; would return this website, I guess that having my identity outside ideias3 was important, and now my web presence is pointing to <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com">alcidesfonseca.com</a>.</p>

<p>Although the old url is still active and redirecting to here, I&#8217;d appreciate you link to this new address now. I&#8217;ve just changed a few lines in a few templates (and <span class="caps">APML</span> and <span class="caps">FOAF</span>) and <a href="http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20050125/">this line</a> helped a lot regarding the database. Now I am in the quest of changing all my web profiles with the new email and website. I&#8217;m curious to see how <a href="http://technorati.com">technorati</a> deals with it.</p>

<p>Changing your personal details everywhere is always painful (I&#8217;m hating it, and I&#8217;m fearing changing my address when I move to my new house two streets away from current one) but I believe the social web may help this. I had this conversation with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/brunofigueiredo/">Bruno</a> and I guess it could work in a year or so: I have a new email and url. I change my hCard in this new website. I ping <a href="http://kitchen.technorati.com/">technorati&#8217;s kitchen</a> or <a href="http://pingerati.net/">pingerati</a> for both urls. Both those services propagate the pings to popular services like twitter, flickr, etc&#8230; They notice that alcides.ideias3.com is redirecting to a new url, so they change it from my profile, and then they update my details from the hCard, since I use alcidesfonseca.com as my main identity page (or as my OpenId). And that way, everything is updated everywhere, with just one change and one ping!</p>

<p>Just a final note: I now enter my email address without any spam protection. I guess it is already somewhere in the web my plain email address, so I don't care anymore. Gmail works fine as a Spam blocker (I've stopped using my MSN address because I still get too much spam).</p>