Peopleaggregator: Myspace for Geeks
. 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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