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Thanks for asking.

Currently, we target three different sources of revenue: 1. Subscriptions 2. Advertisement 3. Strategic partnership

There are few more, less straight-forwarded ways, but those three should be enough for the first days.

They might not be very similar, but you are exactly right. OpenProfile was the first thing how I described Atomkeep to others. ;)

We do not store anything, but your login. You password is asked only when we do something.

We are not an Instant Messenger service. We are not about making people change everything daily.

We'll need to take time and write it in a more proper way. Thanks for pointing this.

If you delete account, it will get purged completely out of servers.

No, we are not sending any kind notifications at this point of time, and we don't plan to include advertisement anyway.

What we actually planning, are new services that you can benefit from, basing on ability to manipulate the data.

In fact, you don't have to give us any credentials to other networks to use our site.

Thanks!

You are right, we log into your account and performing updating of your profile, so Facebook (for example) will always reflect the most actual data.

Our goal is not harvest data, but to export it. That's the point. I agree that it's easier to see the intentions to "steal" data from other networks, but this is not our point.

The convenience is the first step, we've got more in development. Robert Scoble, as far as I recall, was trying to download all his contacts and all their information out of Facebook. And this is a little bit different to what we're doing. From the other side, I can't disagree with you on some of your points.

However, Facebook is not the only one network that we target to.

Thanks.

The name is stands mostly for "keeping the bits of your personal information".

Unlikely, there is no way to help you, if you're unwilling to give us at least minimum. We have a workaround for import currently in development, however, we can't do much with sync feature without being able to login.

Would you send me a screenshot to alex at atomkeep.com ? I'd like to find out what's wrong with that. Thanks.

1. Nobody knows, but according to the current trends on sharing data, FB (and others) are more likely to stick on "sneak preview" of the data. Everyone want to be the central data storage, but not us. This is not our primary goal to store profile. Our primary goal is to make sure that all your networks stay in sync and always have the recent info.

2. We don't make data import feature as the primary value. It's good one to have, however, we don't do anything that the data owner (user) do not allow us to.

The pain: several accounts (LinkedIn, facebook, MySpace) and keeping their profiles updated.

The street address is just one of the simplest parts of modern profiles nowadays. But, yes, this is one of the features of Atomkeep.

In addition to street address, you also have your education and work experience blocks for example.

Originally, we planned to have screenshots or flash demo, however, we never came up with a good scenario for that. Once you are registered, all our screens are pretty simple. However, I'll raise this problem again and discuss with the team, thanks for pointing this out.

Thank you very much for your feedback. However, our original idea is pretty much different from Friendfeed does. We are more about saving time and doing sometime valuable.

What do you mean saying Google Profiles? Are you talking about the ones from Google Groups? These are planned. I can make them higher priority, if you wish ;) Digg and YouTube are also planned. No StumbleUpon and Last.fm in plans, however the demand will set the direction for that.

Thanks again!

Atomkeep is here to solve the problem of information redundancy. Atomkeep will keep your accounts in sync on all social networks, job boards and other sites.

Atomkeep http://www.atomkeep.com

Please, give me your feedback about my startup company, Atomkeep. You can be bad ;) or you can be good, any opinion counts for me. Constructive ones are better, however, I'd appreciate any help. Thank you!

If you are waiting for other people to give you an answer, you're probably not ready, yet, despite on your age and life experience.

I guess it means specific. Unlikely, I don't have access to the site, they never approved me, but proposed a paid membership. I don't think I'm going to pay ;)

Well, you are particularly right and if you do such an extensive development for Linux platform, you should use it. As for the things, you can always do it in the way like you want to. ;)

That's what confuses me a lot. What is the reason to get Mac with Darwin and purchase a secondary laptop with any type of Linux on it? Come on, you are shredding your money away. ;) But this is a pretty common behavior and frequently asked question over here. Is it a try to look more "geeky"?

A lot of people motivate that Linux has got an apt and this makes it a hacker friendly platform. I've started using FreeBSD from 2-RELEASE (sorry, don't remember the numbers). The ports sucked there so much, that you can't even imagine now. But it still was a great platform to develop and to use.

The Darwin' port system is a very nice tool. They're really similar to BSD ports and they are powerful enough. You just never learned how to use it. Do you still miss apt? Get Fink (http://www.finkproject.org). What can be easier?

People, don't get me wrong, I'm not about a holy war. But I'm really confused why guys over here want to have two laptops running Unix at the same time. ;)

Well, I have a Unix experience with more then 10 years and I can tell you that OS X (Darwin) is not less functional or harder to use then any other Unix system. I bet you haven't tried SunOS...

What is the sense to run Linux on Unix platform? What tasks are you doing that make you want Linux also?

You don't have to get H1B to apply for EBGC. The H1B period is 2 years. Although it's not guaranteed to be approved for next two years, you'll pretty likely be. The maximum period of H1B is 5 years from what I remember (2 + 2 + 1).

I assume you're not talking about the whole EBGC process. I don't believe it's possible to file a case and pass through all steps in just four months. And actually I never heard it can happen in less then 10 months.

My congrats. Case transfer between states often leads to unexpected delays. Actually, it's one of the most popular reasons to get your case delayed for years - it's being simply lost.

Well, speaking about the lawyers fees, the sky is the limit. ;) I know typically a good and expensive lawyer firm can charge around $15K for the family of three (well, this includes the official payments for the process, but doesn't include the medical exam and a few more minor fees). You can always negotiate though.

I've been working with David Fullmer from Ivener & Fullmer, LLP. The web site is http://usworkvisa.com/. You can contact me personally and I can provide a reference. They are based in Los Angeles.

Well anyway you still can play GC lottery. If there is a chance, why not trying it? ;) My brother was one among hundred of thousands who's used that chance.

I consider you're talking about your employers, aren't you? As far as I know H1B can be extended to 5 years at max (2+2+1), so you should better hurry up. Propose them to share the costs of legal process if it will make them move up. I doubt you will have fun extending your advance parole and work authorization every year while waiting for your EBGC.

Keep in mind that there are some restrictions on owning the company which brought you on H1B and which sponsored EBGC for you. If your lawyer doesn't know anything about that, fire him and find another one.

Good lawyers help.

What also matters is what group are you fitting into. Having a diploma which is evaluated to Master Degree of American university speeds up a process significantly. Process with Bachelor Degree is pretty slow. There is also an extra quota for those who have American education. And the process is much faster for those ones.

My EBGC process took about 20 months for the whole family. It could be faster, but I had to reschedule fingerprint exams for 2 or 3 months, being out of the country. My lawyers were pretty expensive, but they are much worth it. :) I have MS of CS from foreign university. It was evaluated to the Master Degree. I also have a bunch of certificates, but I don't think they play any difference.

Originally coming on H1B for two years and H2 for the rest of the family, I didn't have to prolong it and I also didn't use advance parole and work authorization (although, my lawyers made them for me).

I'm working for a pretty small company (less then 20 employees). My original position was not anything special, a regular IT fit, so I don't think it matters.

I have spent a lot of time learning the whole process and one of the most important concerns is the lawyers. They can help or they can kill.

Feel free to drop me a message to w at qwe3 dot com if you have any more questions.

P.S. I have a friend in SF waiting for his EBGC for almost 6 years now. Nothing, yet.