Typically, a new way to display iframed content wouldn’t get me very excited - it would actually probably get me rather annoyed. However, what human-powered search engine Mahalo has launched today is pretty clever, and I’m surprised I haven’t seen it on more sites (in fact, none come immediately to mind).
The new feature is called “multi-profiles” and adds tabs for your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Flickr accounts to your Mahalo profile. Click on one of those tabs and you can see a user’s full profiles on those respective services without navigating away from Mahalo. Thus, you can navigate between a user’s Mahalo profile information such as links and search results pages they’ve created, and then check out their other accounts if you want to learn more about them.
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While Mahalo doesn’t generate any extra page views or search engine juice by doing this, they do keep people on the site longer, and in theory will create a better community by making it easier for users to get to know each other.