Ident Engine
A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web

The informavore in its cage (Nicholas Carr's Blog, via @stanm)
The Web has been called a "database of intentions." The bigger that database grows, and the more deeply it is mined, the more difficult it may become to discern whether those intentions are our own or ones that have been implanted in us.

Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
So The Graph word has been creeping in. BradFitz talks of the Social Graph as does Alex Iskold, who discusses social graphs and network theory in general, points out that users want to own their own social graphs. He alo points out that examples of...

The Competition for Your Social Graph
This is the abbreviated version of my current contribution to TechCrunch, “In The Fight Between Facebook And Twitter, Which One’s The Mac And Which One’s The PC?“ SourceFacebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an...

Informationssuche wird immer “sozialer”
Laut einer Nielsen-Studie vom August 2009 spielen Social-Media-Plattformen eine schon recht große Rolle bei der Informationssuche. Immerhin 18 Prozent der über 1.800 Befragten starten ihre Suche auf solchen Plattformen. Kein Wunder, dass Google...

Ident Engine
javascript library to aggregate profiles

Google Social Search
"Social search is opt-in and it's strongly connected to Google Profiles and Gmail. For example, if you add a link to your Twitter page to your Google profile, Google will find the people you follow and the content they produce: blogs, photo...

PeopleMaps
* Search for a person or company. * View that person's PeopleMap or that company's CompanyMap. * Connect to that person or company by viewing the best ConnectionPaths

Custom News Brought to Me Daily by My Friends Courtesy of Twitter Times
A few weeks ago I read about Twitter Times on TechCrunch and it really piqued my curiosity. The service creates a custom news page for you based on the people you follow on Twitter. It also takes into account the people that your followers follow...

Custom News Brought to Me Daily by My Friends Courtesy of Twitter Times
A few weeks ago I read about Twitter Times on TechCrunch and it really piqued my curiosity. The service creates a custom news page for you based on the people you follow on Twitter. It also takes into account the people that your followers follow...

A List Apart: Articles: Discovering Magic
The amount of data available on the web is directly tied to social trends in openness and self publishing. With billions of microformats embedded in the web and RDF growing in strength, it's now possible to build applications on this data. Now...