Oh yea... INTEGRATION!!!!
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Web presence is a term that is already heavily used in IM. It implies the ability to check whether or not someone is online (present). "Stalk me" is kinda funny but I might go for something more like "identity" There is a bunch of "Identity 2.0" buzz going on in the blogosphere. Most of it revolves around de-centraliazed authentication, boring but promising technology. I think the term should be appropriated - perhaps a "social identity" or "meta-identity" or even "meta-profile". Consider how each one of us has a public and private identity online. Bank accounts and such are private, yet social nets and the like are public. So I want to connect all my public accounts and user profiles into one "meta-profile". I think alot of people have had the same thoughts. I have been having this discussion for over a year now with the other developers at work. The discussion starts with Flickr and Del.icio.us and has extended to Amazon, MySpace, Yelp, feedburner, upcoming, friendster, tribe, craigslist, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google, Yahoo and so on. One of the problems is that some larger and less innovative Social Nets do not want to open up their networks. Crawling, scraping and parsing is an option that has been proven to work but requires constant maintenance and heavy lifting best suited to client-side processing. Who wants to rewrite regular expressions every day? I propose an open source library be developed just for this purpose, so that any developer has a toolkit from which to dig into those walled gardens. Ideally, all the knuckleads in myspace woulod eventually see that there are way cooler SNS's out there to play with - like this one. - jozecuervo (758 days ago) |
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Instead of "web presence" you guys should call it: Stalk me. :P - Demosthenes (778 days ago) |
  | Cool! I'm in - jacob (992 days ago) |
 | That's pretty damn swell. I added my info to my profile page. You guys are totally rockpants. - haloform (992 days ago) |
So we did it. Under the account page is a space for your flickr username, your del.icio.us, and an rss feed of your choice. When you fill this information out - your profile page grabs your posted items and shows them to people who view your profile. If you don't have an account at these sites go grab one now (flickr, del.icio.us). Right now we are calling it web presence, but if you have a better name let us know.
I really like this because it connects social networks. (Note to people making social networks: We need more connections people! Lets work together!)
So check out Jake's and my profiles.
Also - flickr and del.icio.us are some of our favorite social networks. we are not opposed to integrating with other social networks. if you have any ideas of a site that we could integrate with.. let us know.