As the internet continues to grow exponentially, new social and professional outlets are emerging. Sites like MySpace and Facebook have revolutionized social media while sites like Active Rain have revolutionized professional networking. A natural outgrowth of the social and professional media sites are widgets.

There are widgets to see who has visited your site, to keep track of breaking news, to get updates on the latest sports scores. In addition to these types of widgets, there are instant messaging widgets that get you connected to others for chatting or conversation on both a social and professional level. I have tried out many widgets and employ several on the various site that I maintain. Today I ran across the My Trybe widget.

While the My Trybe widget is still in the Beta testing phase, it holds some promise as an integrated social and professional networking tool. It allows you to answer questions on various topics like music, news, websites, etc. These questions are then correlated to build a personality or interest profile. You then have the ability to see people's profiles who match with your own from 100% to 0%. This sounds kind of like one of those dating services and in a way it is, without the dating. It allows you to discover websites and bloggers with similar or opposite interests and opinions that you may not have noticed or ever run across before. I like this concept because it has the potential to bring bloggers to my blogs and websites and vice versa. These next few weeks will be my "beta" testing of this widget.