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Peopleaggregator: Myspace for Geeks

posted 11:11AM Jun 27, 2006 with tags foaf myspace peopleaggregator web20 by Lars Trieloff

I've got an invite to peopleaggregator.net. Raju Bitter has already told me about it and recently blogged about the opening of the peopleaggregator beta. From what I've head and read, it should be the best thing since sliced bread, so I immedeately registered after I've got my invitatation mail.

But I was, to put it mildly, surprised about what I could find inside: It is a combination of Myspace-like profile pages, friends network, personal blog, bookmarks and some other services, glued together by microformats and structured blogging. I do not really see the point of this application. Nearly all users already have a weblog, so this weblog feature is not neccessary, the bookmarks feature is duplicated by del.icio.us and so on.

What I would expect from a people aggregator is an aggregation of existing sources of information (blogs, bookmarks, photos, mailing lists) and a connection with friends that works across social networks, e.g. by importing my last.fm, openbc.com and linkedin.com contacts. What is the benefit of another Myspace clone with geek-only-features like microformats and structured blogging?

Buy the way - the peopleaggregator designers seem to have taken the article The MySpace problem to heart.

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Lars, the new things are the APIs and web services in the backend. Importing and exporting networks, relationships. Routing your blog posts to your private blog. Creating groups and networks with the click of a button. And all of that without VC money, based on open standards. Making it possible to interconnect your own software with the webservices of the people aggregator. Integrating with OpenID. SXip and Flickr/Yahoo account in the alpha phase allready. For me, that's cool stuff...

Posted by raju on June 27, 2006 at 12:48 PM CEST #

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