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

I would like to congratulate the new year of 2009 to my readers all around the world who celebrate these days as new year holidays. I wish a coming year full of happiness and prosperity for you both in your personal life and also your job and technical stuff.

Unfortunately 2008 was not a very good and productive year for me despite I didn’t had any major problem and I was happy with my wife, my little daughter and my good friends but I expected better life and work opportunities. Anyway we passed 2008 and it’s time to take a fresh breath!

In my opinion it’s not late yet while we are alive! We’ve started a new year and I hope I would gain my goals in this new year.

I’m going to learn something new in 2009 that one of most important of them is ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft new web programming framework will rock MSFT web dev community in the coming months and I should learn more and more. So I’ve already pre-ordered a copy of Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and I expect it within the March 2009. WCF may be the next candidate. We may also think of relocating our office but we (me and my friends at Digital Persia Corp.) have not yet decided.

I hope I would expand my activities in the .NET community as well. A site dedicated to ASP.NET MVC is one of my main projects (We are at early stage and I will write a post about it in near future; hopingly after RC release). This site will be founded by me and one of my dear friends but I don’t mention his name now because I guess he doesn’t yet like to announce his participation.

As I write more I remember more overdue stuff to put on schedule in 2009; one of them is migrating my blog from dasBlog to something else (BlogEngine.NET or Graffiti). What do you suggest?!

Anyway, I try to make a better 2009 because nobody else can! Let’s remember God and try to help each other more.