What do a former world-champion paddler, a round-the-world yachtsman and polar adventurer, a CTO trained in classical music, and a guy who was formerly one of the top ten surfers in the world have in common? They all happen to be co-founers of Chi.mp, a Twiistup sponsor, and one of the 
most exciting new players in the social web space. They’re also guys I wouldn’t mind hanging ten with out at Hanalei Bay – I hear they even hold ‘Board’ meetings while still wet-suited up.
So, what is Chi.mp? In the purest sense, it will empower us to organize, centralize, and aggregate our online identities, all through our own unique domain that we both own and control. Initially, each Chim.mp user will receive their own .mp domain name – like brady.mp – which comes with a robust identity management platform, and will eventually include tools to search, manage, merge, import, export, and publish their contacts, content and communications from across the web with granular privacy controls from their own domain. Sounds exciting, right? Well, it is – gone will be the days of distributed, scatterred networking. Welcome to the a web where you are at the center of your own network – not a node on someone else’s graph.
Chi.mp will, by all accounts, turn the way we manage our online identities upside down. With an impending September launch date, Chi.mp is already opening up their service to a limited number of early adopters – like you. Tonight, they will handing out special promo tickets to lukcy Twiistup attendees who will have the chance to be among the first in the world to reserve their very own .mp domain and companion Chi.mp site. How will you find these promo tickets? Just look for the guys/gals doing headstands on the glass covered pool tonight.
