The domain space is so incredibly crowded, I feel fortunate that I was able to get my own name as a .com domain name. For my work, I’ve also been tracking a number of social media startups. So I also felt the need to squat my own name in those services as well. I was largely successful, except at YouTube where some other Elliott Ng had squatted that name. So I know there is at least 1 other person with the same name (2 l’s and 2 t’s) but it appears from the search engines that any other Elliott Ng’s are much less active in the Web space. If you are one of them and reading this post, I would be pleased to help link to and direct people who are looking for you. Just leave a comment on this post with a description of who you are and what details would help people decide that you are the Elliott Ng they are looking for, and I’ll add you to this post.

This is an experiment to see if on-page factors on a brand new blog can help me rank on my own name term.

Door #1 – Elliott Ng of Los Altos, CA. I was born in California, and went to college in Boston, then worked in Seattle, and ended up in the Bay Area.

Here are links to my blogs:

• CN Reviews – a blog about China bloggers, entrepreneurship, travel, and the generation of Chinese born in the 70s and 80s.
• Net Global Value – a defunct Blogger blog that I would rather just leave defunct except it seems to beat out my other blogs in Google rankings, so I guess I have to just keep it around.
• Kango Blog – my company blog where I blog about travel and company happenings.

Here’s my Google Shared Items feed and my StumbleUpon feed:

• Elliott’s Google Shared Items – Active, Mix of Web 2.0, technology, China, and other random stuff
• Elliott’s Stumble Upon – elliottng, inactive

Here’s my profiles:

• Elliott’s LinkedIn Profile
• Elliott Ng’s Facebook public profile (nothing much here unless we are already friends)
• Elliott’s Rapleaf profile
• Elliott’s MySpace profile (actually I think I have several and forgot all of the passwords. MySpace, meh), inactive
• Elliott’s Friendster profile – elliottngca, inactive. Darn, someone got my name.
• Elliott’s MyChurch profile – elliottng, inactive
• Professional profile on Kango site – scroll down
• Blogger profile
• Elliott’s Technorati profile
• BlogCatalog profile
• Naymz profile
• LinkSV profile – not much here

VOIP services

• Jajah
• Jaxtr

Friend Feed. One feed to rule them all.

• Elliott’s FriendFeed

I just discovered FriendFeed and set it up to aggregate all my postings and bookmarkings. Actually, I just use Del.icio.us for bookmarking occasionally, and Google Reader for tagging stuff of interest. I just started using Twitter. It’s all mashed together in FriendFeed but here are the component feeds in case you are interested.

Here are links to my microblogging accounts:

• Elliott’s Twitter: elliottng, active
• Elliott’s Tumblr: elliottng, inactive. Don’t even know what tumblr is!
• Elliott’s Pownce: elliottng, inactive.

Here is a feed to the events that I’m watching on Upcoming:

• Elliott’s Upcoming feed

Bookmarking sites:

• Delicious – theoryofchange, active
• Digg – elliottng, not that active
• Furl – elliottng, inactive
• Reddit – elliottng, inactive
• Yelp – elliottng, inactive

Photo and Video sites:

• Elliott’s Flickr account- elliottng, occasionally active
• Elliott’s family Smugmug account – ng-family, mostly private
• Elliott’s Picasaweb account – mostly private
• Elliott’s Vimeo – elliottng, inactive
• CN Reviews YouTube account – cnreviews, inactive. I’m angry that someone took my name before I could. This spurred me into squatting my name on as many apps as I could!
• Elliott’s Zooomr account – elliottng, inactive

Update: Other random inactive accounts:

• Old Bloglines blogroll
• Inactive Kaboodle account
• Inactive Vox blog
• MeetUp profile
• Yahoo profile
• Rollyo profile
• Amazon Unspun profile
• Twitxr
• Linkriver
• Shyftr
• Dopplr
• Harvard Law School blog
• VibeAgent
• Fanfou
• Utterz
• Diigo
• Get Satisfaction
• more to come…

Door #2…x: Wrong Elliott (or Elliot) Ng?

I’m sorry you found the wrong person. Or if you have the same name as me, leave a comment with your email address and I’d be happy to contact you and put your info on this page too so people can find you too. What is the correct spelling of Elliott anyway?

Here’s some other Elliot(t)’s:

Elliot Ng has a blog called Mange.Voyage that is about travel and food. I think this is the same Elliot Ng of Toronto Canada, a University of British Columbia alumnus, on LinkedIn. Nice portfolio, Elliot.

Elliot Ng of Washington DC, who appears to work for the Department of Interior. Info here.

Elliott Ng of Hong Kong, on Facebook. There is another Elliott Ng of Singapore too on Facebook. Should I friend him?

Elliot Ng of Singapore on Friendster. You’re probably the guy who took the elliottng name on Friendster!

OK, lets leave it there. Since it appears that none of us Elliott Ng’s are Wikipedia notable, I’d be happy to host the Elliot Ng (and Elliott Ng) disambiguation page for now. Wow, I hope the keyword repetition doesn’t trigger any Google alarms!