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The Twitterfication of Profiles

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Profiles are dead. If someone tells you of their new startup idea that involves the creation of user profiles, tell them to quit while they are ahead. It’s not that profiles are useless it’s that I’ve created a profile one too many times. I only need basic in ... Continue reading »

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  • Marcus

    1 year ago

    I'm not sure you'd find many who disagree with your idea here - though I'd venture to say that Facebook is too finicky of a silo to store one's profile -- I would suggest a service like OpenID should host this roll. Type in your OpenID and BAM - it should auto populate all of my profile info. One place, one time entry - that would be a perfect world.
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  • Josue Sanchez

    1 year ago

    I agree with you, Nick.

    I created a very simple site which domain is my own name (www.JosueSanchez.com). There, I put my main profiles and info. Now, when a new social site asks me for my info, I just type my site's name.
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  • Tim Courtney

    1 year ago

    You hit me back on a series of tweets over the weekend. I agree, why fill out another profile? But what about one master profile to feed all others? I also think there are serious privacy/ownership issues at stake, and though I'm not well read on OpenSocial, perhaps they can/will create standards and safeguard this?

    Here are my tweets pasted, to get the ideas out there. Reverse-chronological:

    timcourtney: @biznickman And how much of ourselves do we own? How much have I signed away in EULAs already? Does it even matter? Food for thought. 05:55 PM March 29, 2008

    timcourtney: @biznickman Exciting, very. But I haven't stopped to think re: the implications. Our personal lives are vulnerable even to a simple hacker.

    timcourtney: What if I could own my own identity server, like OpenID, & keep all my social data there. *I* would own/ctrl it, and it would feed services.

    timcourtney: It would make a sweet movie, too.

    timcourtney: What will come of the future of data privacy and ownership? The more I live my life online and in SaaS-land, the more I ask that question.

    timcourtney: Living life on the social web is weird. del.icio.us bookmarks fed to Facebook, etc. More strategic links get clicked 'do not share.'
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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    I think that's right. I also think that could be more and more right for brands. Check out adidas on Facebook. For company info, they offer a link to their wikipedia page.

    We can find each others profiles all over the web now, so you're right we don't need more. Brands have the same options.
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  • Anil

    1 year ago

    Nick, have you looked at Action Streams for Movable Type, which supports 75 social networks, and is both free/open source as well as being decentralized? It seems like we don't have to wait forever for the frameworks to be created -- the tools are there, just waiting for more people to get educated about them.
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    Hey Anil,

    No I haven't. I definitely will check that out! I think there are a lot of solutions, we just need to get people using them as you point out :)
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  • Stephen Paul Weber

    1 year ago

    *pimping DiSo* since you're WordPress, you may be interested in wp-diso-actionstream - it's a port of MT Actionstream for WoWordPress.
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  • David Strachan

    1 year ago

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