Jon Sykes explains his username search tool:

I thought you might be interested in a little pet project I launched a couple of weeks back, Usernamecheck.com. It’s a site that allows you to enter a username and it checks 40+ of the big or new social networking / web 2.0 sites and informs you whether that username is taken or available.

Initially I built the site so that people could have a way to see where they are and where they aren’t and give them the chance to pick up their usernames to prevent them being signed up by someone who might ruin their online credibility.

But based on the blog posts and twitter posts I’ve been seeing it seems people have been coming up with some very imaginative uses.

Hope you like the site, we’ve had over a 100,000 unique visitors since launch and have a Alexa ranking that is currently better than pownce, brightkite and jaiku (although I never really understood alexa). But it’s been nice to see people enjoying the service.

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