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Launching today, Youtego is a new tool for self-visualization on the net. The company’s goal is to help bring the concept of self-visualization to the web, so that you can project a visual image of yourself—what you believe, feel, know, have to teach or are capable of doing. Self-visualization is the term that Youtego uses to explain the process of associating pictures with what your self-image.

The process of self-visualization in Youtego is a combination of semantics (words and phrases) and its visual representation (pictures and photos), about yourself. In the end, you get the combination or matrix of visual objects that you personally define and visualize. As a result, you start matching with people by elements, which are called Tegos, that you define.

Once you sign up for an account, you start by creating a ‘Tegoset’. For instance, I made a Tegoset showing my computers because I’m really into computers. With a Tegoset you have the ability to explain what you like and enjoy without to having to write anything — it’s all done through pictures.

You fill your ‘Tegoset’ with any visualized images that you think relate to the Tegoset and see who else matches those in the site. After you create your ‘Tegoset’, you create individual ‘tegos’. You also have the option of creating a story, that goes along with your Tegoset and tego.

Once you have the words and pictures that you define, Youtego then connects photos from Flickr, Picasa, and Google Images. From there, you can share the tegos with the rest of the world.

A neat feature of Youtego is the ability to take pictures of the Tegos, and turn them into videos with a combination of music — It reminds me a lot of Animoto, actually.

Youtego is a similar service to iMindi, a TechCrunch50 finalist from 2008. You might also remember iMindi as the startup that got ripped up by TechCrunch50 panel expert Mark Cuban as the “biggest bunch of bullshit I’ve ever heard in my life.”

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