Personalized - all by yourself
Niall Kennedy has posted his part II of his series on personalized Home pages.
It’s an excellent overview which goes over all the issues pertaining to current generation Home pages. This post complements Niall’s previous post on personal home pages leading up to today.
But what Niall is missing is a couple of key issues - which are fairly easy to understand:
- as we’ve seen with photos, links and video - it’s not always about ME, but what OTHERS are up to as well.
- Rojo atempts to do that with aggregators, dabble does a great job of doing that with video links
- and with all these widgets, modules, flakes, etc. - you’d think we could establish an interop standard - huh?
Why are personalized Home pages all by themselves - ignorant of their friends, family and potential network comrades? I don’t buy that the personalized Home page market is a bunch of isolated, stand alone single user pages.
I’m betting that like all Web 2.0 (sorry - I mean the Live Web) apps and services - that social networking and social media will come to these Home pages as well.
Oh BTW - you could use the PeopleAggregator to do that.
I’ve used MyYahoo since its inception (1996) and for about that last 4 years now I’ve been imagining ‘digital lifestyle aggregators’ as taking this all to the next step. I see management of your personal info as part of your social activity. Your friends clue you into what’s hot, what’s not and what’s going on.
Why wouldn’t my friends be deeply integrated into my Home Page experience? That’s where Live Spaces gets it right.
The PeopleAggregator gets us on our way to a world of digital lifestyle aggregation.
PeepAgg has the notion of a personalized start page. Its not as full featured as NetVibes, Pageflakes or Microsoft Live - but it also has a full range of personal publishing tools and social networking - which those others don’t have. Well except for Live Spaces - I guess. And our source code is available.
Top that Dare!
I somehow doubt you’ll get Microsoft to put the Live Spaces code available for download!
And as far as new standards for widgets and moudles - bring it on - as I’m sure that most of the NetVibes and Pageflakes developers would prefer to not have to write their code - twice.
This all is pretty relevant given Facebook’s super personalization technology they released today.
September 5th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
> you’d think we could establish an interop standard - huh?
ODF Wikis + WSRP Widgets
September 5th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Why is this conversation always about a MyPage, for me to read, of stuff by other people; Instead of a YourPage, About Me, of stuff I’ve written, to be read by other people? It’s so very Web 1.0 in that it’s all about sticky eyeballs, page impressions, lock in and advertising.
I’m still struggling to find anything (including PeopleAgg) that aggregates everything I write anywhere on the web in one place so that other people can find out about me and read or follow what I write and produce.
In the last few days I’ve been playing with Opinity but while that aggreggates all my online Identities it makes no attempt to agg the content on the end of them. It’s not even very good at linking to the personal profile/content page on each service.