DISQUS

JoeDuck · 1 year ago

Yes! I want a customizable widgetizable portal with my FriendFeed stuff.

Tony · 1 year ago

Hi, we're actually building a content and identity hub that sits on your domain called chi.mp. You can follow the conversation at www.ownyouridentity.com

david usher · 1 year ago

Hey Mathew
thats pretty much what i do at davidusher.com. Without having that central hub that aggregates everything for me (gotta love RSS) i would never be able to keep track of it all. Its a blog based site that is a social network hub that links my facebook, flicker, twitter, youtube, myspace, ilike etc. Controlling your own URL is key, im on all the social networks but trusting my online life to a walled garden seems foolish to me.

peterabarry · 1 year ago

I agree with your frustration - I think it is an intergration problem which is an interesting issue found in many disciplines particularly social and technological.

I think one of the main problems is that integration requires common protocol and standards adoption which is not a priority for many service providers, nor is it very easy to build standards for cutting edge technology because that which is cool is innovative and generally requires some departure from protocol.

From my experience as a programmer most of my job seems to be an intergration one, and I hate to say it but I dont see this central aggregator becoming a reality. The aggregator would need to behave like glue, not only in bringing all the services together, but as you say allowing read and write functionality via its protocols, on top of this it would need a way of piping / wiring together the services (e.g. if you add a friend in one place you would want to add it the other), you would also need a configuration console of some kind to be able to set security levels so that thigns like you professional network, could if you chose be shielded from thos Friday night photos or whatever... It sounds like a great idea for an open source project and I can see some people trying the widget approach to do this, but I still dont think it is tighlty integrated enough. Some of the open social networking standardisation will help but again, to stay up with the edge of innovation there will still need to be some very busy integrators. A 'glue' platform would need to be very flexible and configurable and need to be able to be cross platofrm etc. Does anyone know any people building apps like this glue?