Both Ton Ziljstra and Paolo have been dreaming of the day when they can type someone’s name into a search field - and get back:

- what social networks they are a member of

- where their blog(s) is/are

- who else they know

- what they’re doing right now - across all resence networks

Me too.  Joel DeGan and I tried to create something called the PeopleDNS - which would have been the foundation for such a search.  Since then = i-names = and a host of other identity brokers have tried to fill that space.

And Facebook has now created almost a legend in how quickly you can piss people off - when they think that they can be ‘discovered’ - based upon their actions.

White pages services have been around for years - but they just give you public address data and little more.

Clearly their is a need for such a search function, but it steps right onto the issue of privacy and security on the web.

Other plays are going on to create custom ‘darknets’ - private networks where we can keep our children safe and let them play, but all under a watchful eye.  I’m still not sure if the kids will dig that - but perhaps their younger brothers and sisters - who have never tasted the evils of MySpace - won’t mind.

Now that we can IMPORT Facebook and Flickr profiles into PeopleAggregator - we’re trying to figure out “what to do with all that stuff?”

So as this dream evolves and we keep pushing the envelope forward - all I can say is “PeopleAggregaor will get you there - cheaper, more powerful and able to leap tall buildings in a single source code download.”

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