Tomorrow night I will speak at a ‘mashup* event in London on DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregaors.)  That’s a term I used a few years back to describe what it was we were building.  It’s up to 26,700 hits in Google.

Here’s an early article on AlwaysOn about DLAs from ‘04.  Tony and company are building a DLA they call the GoingOn Network.

Barb Dybwad has the highest ranked article on DLAs.  And there are 23 tags on it in Technorati.  As of today.

Simon picked up the ball and is running with it for tomorrow’s event - and we’ve got Tariq Krim (of NetVibes) to rap about it - as well as Simon and others.  Its great to see a whacky term I literally pulled out of the air - make it to some degree of respectability and uptake.

This piece from P-Air Wolff was just found by a client of ours (shhhhh - they’re in stealth mode) - so it was fun to look back 18 months and remember what it was like to be considered a ‘complete madman’ - still.  Now that we’ve shipped a product, closed some deals, got more uptake and respect - its fun to remember ‘back in the day’ when I was a lonely voice in the wilderness.

Of course it really doesn’t mater what you call them - Portals 2.0, dashboards, new kinds of aggregators, whatever.

Let’s just make sure they rely upon and promulgate open standards - like OpenID, XFN, FOAF, RSS, etc.

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