Has anoyone else taken a look lately at just how divergent our online lives have become? Social Media sites seem to crop up every day, and if many of your are like me, you sign up if for no other reason than to protect and control your identity. I have multiple accounts at multiple sites, many in both my real name, as well as my internet handle/nom de plume/nick, whatevery you want to call it. I made sure to snatch up my “vanity” name at Facebook the second that option came online, and I’m registered at sites I never visit for the same reason. As such, even when you count only the sites I actually use, Facebook (2 accts), Delicious, Flickr, twitter, my personal blog, my political blog, my Family website, my business site, there’s so much to update that every one of them is only always partly up to date. Any person wanting to see what’s up in my life that I’m willing to divulge has to wade through half the web just to get a full picture, with pieces from here, parts from there, and pics from further on over there. Which begs the question. Who’s gonna be the first to market with a meta-social website, one with the API’s to maybe the top 20 social sites and blogging platforms that allows all those disparate streams of info to be merged back into a time-wise linear single stream of data, facebook posts and twitter posts and wordpress posts, and flickr photos all placed back in the order they were published in, regardless of their source. whoever wants a successful web product, that’s your next goal. Develop something that can do all that, kinda like friendfeed, but specific to my own data streams, keep my online life in order, and that is the site I would favor. Who’s up for the challenge?
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