(2006-07-28) Thirty Boxes Identity Aggregation

Thirty Boxes (30boxes) is a Calendar WebApp, but I'm intrigued by Jeff Clavier's description of its Digital Identity aggregation model. Which I suppose isn't much more than having special fields in the Address Book for all the various online identities/URI-s for your contacts (their FlickR account, Del.icio.us account, etc.). It would be nice if everyone had a FOAF/XFN file providing that info about itself, but in the meantime this is a good idea. See also Digital Lifestyle Aggregator, Open Social Networking Model.

• Aug'2007 update: I guess this is relates to my Identity Hub idea.

  • like JaiKu, Thirty Boxes won't accept my WikiLog RSS feed (which is admittedly not quite kosher, but Blog Lines will accept it)

They are slowly starting to unveil the Social Network (Social Graph) that is being created. We have taken to dubbing it a "supernet" because it actually incorporates relationships across many networks. Does that mean they're going to make all those IDs of other users public? That might generate some Back Lash.

It seems like streaming all these flows through their Web Top makes it an RssAggregator.