Contrary to popular belief, I don’t join every new Web service there is, and I don’t need to get an invite of everything Twitterati seem to have a blast with. I really don’t, for various reasons.

For one, living on the island of Switzerland, I cannot access a service if it is relying on locality (Foursquare) or if it’s based on the entertainment industry’s content (Spotify, Pandora). These sites and services are blocked, depending on where your ass is located on this planet.

Secondly, I want to invest my time wisely. Forementioned services appear to be excellent and I’d love to get my hands dirty with them, but since I cannot do that, in the meantime, I am checking out the apps that aren’t so restrictive. The Web is all about open communication in all directions; it’s about connecting, merging, learning and organic growth. And I just love it when a new service relies on that principle at the heart of what it does.

All on one

OnePage is such a service. Now, I could say something like: It’s Friendfeed meets Twitter meets RSS meets all your life. But that would be the way everybody else describes it, and that’s not really telling you why you should be looking out for it.

OnePage lets you unify most of your Web activities in a single stream.

OnePage is currently in beta. It was founded by Joel Gascoigne and Oo Nwoye. Lead developer is Daniel Gafitescu and the Design was created by Laura Kalbag. I’ve been following Joel on Twitter, so if you want a beta invite too, you should contact him there and let him know that you really need to join this awesome Web app.

OnePage is that kind of site you want to add to your e-mail signature. Not because it does more than Facebook, but because it does less, and that it does very well. The average reader of my blog knows what I’m talking about. We are on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, YouTube, Delicious, Vimeo, Digg, LinkedIn, Picasa, Brightkite, even Last.fm (although their service is currently overrun by competitors who remain to offer their services for free).

Hassle-free

OnePage doesn’t force you to add more friends than you actually have. Neither does it suggest that you must add another super-poke app, or join the supposedly hilarious mafia wars. It does something else, something a lot of us wanted for a long time. It brings everything you do together, on—you got it—one page.

I’ve tested OnePage for a while, particularly by adding it to my e-mail signature, and responses have been good so far. People like to get a single link where they know they can follow everything you do online.

Room for improvements

OnePage seems almost perfect. If you’d ask me what I would improve, I think I would add a personal v-card option, but not an automated one like the one on LinkedIn. And I would definitely add an option to post to all my services on OnePage, so everything that supports a status format like Twitter or Facebook would get the same post, sent from OnePage, similarly like Ping.fm and Hellotxt are offering it.

Another thing I’d like to see is RSS output. It seems to be a natural extension to add someone’s live stream from OnePage to an RSS reader, such as Google Reader or the free NetNewsWire (Mac OS only).

If you want to learn more, have a look at the video clip on OnePage, or check out its feedback channel.