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OnePoke, currently in public beta, is a very simple easy to use manager for your dating and social networking accounts. OnePoke supports the following social and dating sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hi5, Frype, MyLifeList, PlentyOfFish, LavaLife, OkCupud, eHarmony, CasualKiss, PerfectMatch, and YouTube. On top of support social and dating sites, you can also manage your email accounts and read your favorite blogs. You can even update your status messages for the social networks that you add. You can choose to update certain social networks separately or all of them at once.

In my opinion, OnePoke has a lot of potential and is definitely something desired by many social media users. The only downside I see is the lack of style throughout the site. As you can see in the screenshots below, the format of the different account managers are rather plain and lack any style or color. Although many may prefer the site this way I’m sure quite a few others might beg to differ.

Adding accounts to OnePoke is very quick and easy. There are menus and sub-menus that represent each type of accounts that you can use (social networks, dating networks, emails, blogs, and media).

Each account you add has its on tab and its own set of category tabs. In addition, there’s also a link to take you directly to the actual site or delete the site from your OnePoke account.

Blog reading is also supported and simply involves entering a title and blog URL. One you enter the blog URL, OnePoke will detect the RSS feed and display it for you in its reader. Each blog you add is displayed on its own tab as well.

OnePoke also supports email account management. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to add your Yahoo email unless you have a Plus account. Once again, your account are separated by the tabs on top. Pretty much like the new Yahoo Mail interface, the email message index is displayed at the top of the window; once you click on a message, you’ll be able to read it in the small window below.

Lastly there’s the OnePoke toolbox that provides you with numerous useful tools that can be used with each of the social networks you’ve added. For example, for Twitter they’ve listed tools to help you promote, monitor, expand, customize your account and more. For Facebook there’s a to do list, calendar, profile organizer, connection builder and more.

Even though there are already quite a few sites out there that does most of these same things, OnePoke is truly making the effort to become your one stop social account manager. Plus, they are unique in that they’ve added management of numerous dating sites as well.

I would love to hear your personal thoughts on OnePoke; feel free to share.