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Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

David Strachan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:53:26 -0000

Check out mEgo.

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Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

singpolyma — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:33:17 -0000

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

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:39:21 -0000

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 :)

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Anil Dash — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:36:58 -0000

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.

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:22:51 -0000

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.

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Tim Courtney — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:18:39 -0000

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.'

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Josue Sanchez — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:44:41 -0000

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.

Re: The Twitterfication of Profiles

Marcus — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:26:18 -0000

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.