perldiver

Hey folks, I'm doing some market research and hope that you all will participate. This is an idea I've had and I'm wondering about implementing it. I'll probably do so just for my own use, but it occurred to me that it might actually be something that other people want, and might be a potential startup idea (and, hence, a way for me to get out of this lousy jobless state).

Does anyone know of a web service with the following features, or something like them:

• Stores all of your personal data (name, address, email, etc) and the names of your various service providers.


• Allows you to change any piece of your personal data and then pushes the changes out to all of your providers. So, when you move, you just update this site and it automatically files a change-of-address card with the post office, notifies all of your magazine subscriptions of the new address, updates your address info on LJ/FaceBook, tells Netflix to ship to your new address, etc). Same for changes to email, phone, whatever


• Allows you to lie to certain providers while still giving correct data to others. e.g., you can notify the Crate and Barrel people that your new address is "123 NoSuch St, Notown AL 10000", and they would start shipping their unwanted catalogs there instead of to you (they would then be sent back with the postal equivalent of 404, and hopefully C&B would eventually stop shipping them)


• Allows you to keep your data encrypted when not in use with a private key that is not stored on the server. (i.e., whenever you aren't actually using the site, all of your data is gibberish that will not benefit a thief should it somehow be stolen)

Would anyone use such a service if it existed? What would an acceptable business model be--advertising, monthly charge, micro-fee per update, etc?

I'd really appreciate any input you can offer and if you wouldn't mind spreading the word a bit so I get more feedback, that would be fantastic.