OpenID and PeopleAggregator
Additional research keeps killing off my complaints about the state of social networking. It turns out that there is an open standard for describing people online, and it’s called OpenID (more on Wikipedia). It was created by someone at LiveJournal, and integration of OpenID is planned for Firefox 3 and Widows Vista. So this standard seems to have some momentum. What it needs is larger adoption from the white label social networking platforms I mentioned earlier.
Fortunately, I’ve found at least one platform that seems to be supporting it. Everyone needs to take a look at PeopleAggregator. They have a fantastic feature set, a great stance on open standards, and what appears to be a robust set of APIs. I’m going to show this to a colleague at work and see if it really is as good as it looks.
Here’s hoping!
August 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
This is the comment i tried to post yesterday.
I don’t think people want to be aggregated. I think the beauty of the internet allows a corporate executive to have both a business blog and a blog that supports his furry fetish, and to keep the two separate. What’s wrong with someone having two different reputations on 2 different sites.
People love the Internet because it gives them a chance to be what they are not in real life, it gives them a “Second Life.” The minute that a Google persona is created is the minute that another, more anonymous medium will be introduced.
People don’t want their worlds colliding. In the words of Costanza “You’re killing independent George!”
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
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