Marc Canter‘s Digital Lifestyle Aggregator (DLA), called PeopleAggregator, launched in Alpha mode overnight.
BroadbandMechanics says PeopleAggregator is:
a social network web service that will be used to inter-connect the world’s social networks – together.
We can only do that by opening up and giving away our APIs and techniques for doing so. So instead of a single social network with 10,000,000 people – we see 10M social networks – with 25-150 people in them. This vision of distributed, meshed universe of networks is what PeopleAggregator is all about.
Invitations were sent out to trial it and it is still looking a little rough around the edges (not unsurprisingly in an alpha product).
Initially I was unable to get the Flickr integration working but I put up a post asking if anyone had similar problems and I received an answer in under an hour telling me that you need to use the email address Flickr has for you as your Flickr ID! This wasn’t immediately obvious to me but when I tried that, it worked.
The Del.icio.us integration just worked.
I joined the Irish Blogs group but I haven’t looked into the Networks side of PeopleAggregator yet.
Some of the functionality needs to be simplified. For instance, linking to other members isn’t straightforward. Also, there are reports that the sxip integration isn’t working just yet and there are no obvious RSS feeds.
You can invite people to join PeopleAggregator so if anyone wants an invite, leave your name in the comments (or send me an email) and I’ll send one on.
I’m looking forward to seeing where Marc takes this.
Hi Tom,
that looks interesting – I wouldn’t mind having a play around with it if you still have an invite going.
thanks.
Treasa
It seems to be offline for maintenance just now Treasa, I’ll try again later this afternoon.
Go on, fire us over an invite. I wouldn’t mind having a snoop around.
Hi Tom – I’d love to get a look at peepAgg as well if you don’t mind sending an invite along when you get a chance. Thanks!
-Eric
Tom, always wanted to a review of the podcast you did with Marc. Sorry, didn’t make it. But thanks for the advice with Flickr. Had the same problem with the PeopleAggregator.
Raju,
Delighted I was able to help you out on that – as I said it is not obvious.
Eric, Dick and Treasa – your invites are in the ether, winging there way towards you!
Tom, I’d like an invite, if you aren’t running short. Cheers!
Thanks a million…having a good root around.
Me, me!
Check your mail Colm!
Any chance of sending one my way?
Sure Keith,
Done!
Always one to take an interest in a new online venture if there’s an invitation going I wouldn’t say no! Particularly from an Irish Blogs pov
What a generous offer! I’d be very keen to have a look around..
Excellent. I’ve completed signup and I’m fiddling around. I’ve already bumped into some of those rough edges!
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your post.
I can’t wait to try PeopleAggregator: since 2002, I have been quite active in online networking, and since then I have been waiting for open standards and interoperability!
Chris
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I wouldn’t say no to having a look around!
thanks for the invite!