Ziki is a service which has an aim somewhat similar to that of ClaimID, to store a person’s online presence in one central location, but seems to do that in a manner somewhat similar to Suprglu or Profilactic by aggregating feeds of your activities on various sites. You can also link to your account on other sites, which it grabs the favicons from. The site also allows you to post items straight to it, such as blog entries or bookmarks. The site also allows companies and groups to maintain Zikis, a feature ClaimID and Profilactic/Suprglu seem to lack.
The sign up process is not as easy as that of Profilactic as there’s a lot more compulsory fields. Like Profilactic, though, location is a compulsory field. This might make things hard for bloggers who wish to use the service but hold some sort of anonymity (such as myself). You are also required to tag yourself by listing things such as hobbies etc. My tags, as an example, include web2.0 and AJAX. You can then search the site for people with similar tags.
Ziki uses a lot of Ajax. While flicking between the various parts of my profile, I don’t think I saw a single page refresh.
An interesting feature Ziki has is that it aggregates data about your readership from both Feedburner and Technorati. It then says how many people in total read your feeds from across your various blogs. I, apparently, have 1439 Feedburner subscribers in total to Webby’s World and BlogsBlog. This is a nice way to boost your ego! 
Ziki are prepared to give $10 of free Google AdWords, on your name, to the first 10000 members. Unfortunately, in order to qualify for this offer you must provide at least 5 tags for yourself as well as a photo.
The site’s design is very Web 2.0; however I do think there is a bit of a conflict between light green and black (see below).
Ziki is a promising site, however, it doesn’t seem to have a niche like the other Identity 2.0 services. Ziki is far too broad: being a blog host, bookmarking site and aggregator amongst other things.
Tags: web 2.0, web 2, web2, web2.0, identity, identity 2.0, identity 2, ziki, free stuff
Hi Joe,
Thanks for this interesting post. I would like to precise a point : we, at Ziki, are not hosting blogs
We allow you to post stuff on your Ziki, that’s right. But it’s not what you would call blogging (it would involve comments etc).
We believe that the “content publishing” system is a nice way to put some content on your Ziki but that if our users want to blog, they have better to open an account on wordpress.com because the platform already exists and it works very well (WordPress is just for the example).
Regarding the design of the site, we are working on it :)You also said :
Well, in my mind, 5 tags and a photo for $10 of commercial links, is it asking so much ?
Joe, to complement on my colleague’s previous comment: Ziki is about content promotion so it it not comparable to the the sites you are referring to. It is actually a unique feature. We will be introducing soon an interface allowing members to choose their own words and budgets to manage ads campaigns on major search engines.
Enjoy the service.
Andre/Ziki Team
The blogger’s identity seems like a fairly high price; does it not?
Joe:
Thanks for the Profilactic mention (and giving up props for the signup process). BTW, you will be able to keep your location private starting next week (hopefully). We’ll use “Undisclosed location” as the default. Adds a bit more mystery and intrigue to your profile, I think
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Joe : we don’t force anybody to use our offer
People who are not okay to pick five tags and post a picture can use Ziki without the commercial links offer. That is not mandatory
I understand your point of view though…
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