Information Madness

In current web 2.0 world, your username is your identity. How your protect your identity? You make sure you register yourself across every site that you should be. So before you choose your username, you want to make sure that the same username is available across every possible web 2.0 site that you will be using.

Here is a little handy website that can quickly tell you whether the username is available or taken at your favourite sites. The site is simple. It has a stack of web app urls, the application pings the site using the username you want to check, if it returns a "no user name" error it returns that. The site uses Dojo as it does all the checks using Ajax (each check takes a couple of seconds so using Ajax you don't have to sit and wait 3 minutes for the page to load).

Give it a try, its pretty neat. UserNameCheck.com