Anyone who’s someone on web 2.0 reads Mashable - one of the world's most popular blog focused exclusively on social networks. After achieving a huge amount of readers (over 3 million monthly page views) Mashable.com launched yesterday a new social network called my.mashable.

The new my.mashable network is a natural progression for Mashable that slowly but wisely became the authority regarding social networks, blogs and general web 2.0 news and reviews. Let’s just say that if an alien (or maybe just my mom) lands on earth today and wants to catch up on web 2.0 updates, then Mashable is probably the best place to send it to – when it comes to social networks Mashable is always on top of the game.

my.mashable Network is placed on the Mashable.com homepage, which gives it an easier opening point. Considering the fact that probably 99% of the Mashable readers are also active social networks users (or at least active enough to open an account), it's an almost obvious move. On the other hand – why should an active user open another social network profile?

my.mashable doesn’t offer any special or unique features yet: for now it only features a general profile system that lets you fill up links to all your social networks profiles & blogs around the web. Some new features are coming soon, but this network's essence is probably the user's various profiles. Mashable, just like your loyal servant - 8hands, understands that social networks aggregation is the future.

But why should I open yet another new profile on the web you ask? Well the answer is simple – to be famous: My.mashable is the perfect place to actually “meet” and “know” the hard core of Mashable's readers. Most of them are bloggers, high-tech professionals, network founders etc. instead of trying to promote their product on a mashable post comment, they can now just open a my.mashable profile and get the desired stage to spread their word.

What I like about my.mashable is that it’s not trying to imitate the other networks around – The Mashable people know their users very well, they are the web 2.0 experts and that’s why I believe that the my.mashable features will grow and become useful and practical.

My.mashable is not just a place to hang out and socialize – there’s no option to upload videos, pictures or write blogs. It’s all surrounded by the profiles you already use plus the Mashable latest posts, on a small shoutbox on the right side of the page.

My.mashable joins the list of social networks aggregators who offer a part of what 8hands is offering (Tabber, LinkMyBox). 8hands, unlike these web-based aggregators, gives you more control over your content and also provides real-time notifications on your desktop, without having to open a browser in order to know exactly what is happening on your various social network profiles.

The fact is that most of Mashable's readers are the people “behind” the web 2.0 world and are not common users, begs the question whether this is just another manifestation of the web 2.0 bubble. This is definitely not a network for the 14 year old girl or for the self-observed hipsters: it's a small niche community for the people who live for web 2.0, and you can trust Mashable to make a good home for them.

Don't forget to add us at my.mashable.com/my8hands