Totspot Teaches My Children About DataPortability [invites]

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Most parents just can't seem to shut up about their children. I'm no exception. Totspot is a brand new social network designed to showcase your kids, so your Twitter followers won't be subjected to the digital equivalent of you pulling out your wallet full of pictures every couple of days. It's a bit of a cross between an online scrapbook and a MySpace page.

One of the things I noticed in looking around (even before I took a look at the emailed information from co-founder Adam Katz) is how early adopter savvy this site is, despite being in a market of site that typically only cover the rudimentary basics. Very few sites designed with parents of young children in mind have, for instance, the ability to import videos from Vimeo or YouTube, or pictures from Flickr or SmugMug.

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I played around with the system a bit last night and this morning, creating profiles for both of my sons. I was surprised by the ease of it and the level of detail you can go into with creating the profile, particularly with the "firsts" section (first tooth, first night in own bed, etc). You can take a look at my son Jacob Li's profile (you knew that was coming sooner or later), so long as you sign up to the system. I have his privacy level set to "All TotSpot Users", though by default, the privacy level is set down to folks set as friends only on TotSpot.