UNYK.com launches new features

August 5th, 2008

UNYK which was launched in 2005 is a smart address book that centralizes all your other address books in a few clicks, and updates itself automatically as soon as one of your contacts changes their information. UNYK is accessible through multiple platforms (web, toolbar, Outlook, and soon on any mobile phone).

The public profile can contain all the information included in the user’s UNYK profile (education, professional experience, hobbies…), except for contact information, which is always reserved to authorized contacts. Each user is given a unique URL in the format: http://www.unyk.com/id/firstname-lastname, which is easy to communicate to others.

Also, when a person accesses a user’s public profile, either through search results or through a signature on a blog, they can send a connection request to that user, to be able to make contact with them.

This is a great new feature for people who want to reconnect with old friends, or who want to be visible for potential employers or business partners. “On Google, 30% of searches are to find people. We want our users to be able to use their UNYK profile as their identity online,” says Sebastien Brault, UNYK.com’s CEO and founder. “They can share as much information as they want to be visible to other people. This way, they control their own visibility, and their own online identity. And they are able to make sure that the information visible about them is 100% accurate and up-to-date!”

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