A few months ago I found an amazing Web 2.0 free service called Chi.mp. As Chi.mp guys have stated in their about section, main goal of this service is centralizing online identity consists of content (blog entries, photos, videos, tweets, etc.) and your contacts and friends in one place. Once you sign up with them you receive a dedicated domain name with .mp extension (.mp is the ccTLD for the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI); for more information take a look at get.mp website) and then you can setup and configure your current social activities into your domain.mp. Many services like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, RSS Feeds, etc. are supported now. Your visitors then can see your latest updates on social sites in one place and also can see your contact information based on your public/private settings.

Another amazing feature that Chi.mp offers to its users is OpenID! Yes! Chi.mp is an OpenID provider and once you sign up with them, your own domain name is an OpenID address as well. This is great because you can use a very pretty, short and easy to remember address as your OpenID instead of those ugly URLs provided by Google, Yahoo and other OpenID service providers!

You can also define an email address on your own .mp domain name and forward it to your favorite email address. Mine is i@mahdi.mp now!

Chi.mp is a ‘by invites only’ service at present and you should request current .mp owners to send you an invite (if any left!) or being in a waiting list by adding your information here. [Sorry! I don’t have any invites at present!]

Since Chi.mp is still in beta stage there are many many features that can be added and more enhancements that can be applied to this service and I’m sure it can be one of the most favorite services of 2009 among Web 2.0 geeks.

By the way, my Chi.mp account can be found at http://mahdi.mp