on Jan 2nd, 2007ProfileLinker aggregates content from different socionets.
There is another player in the aggregator town, Profilelinker aggregates content from many social networks onto a single interface. You can continue to explore content from all teh networks and also discover friends, communities etc and get friend requests, messages etc in one place. The downside however is that it uses site credentials to do so.
The main source of revenue for these social networks is page views and ads and definetely people in myspace, facebook and bebo will not be pleased at profilelinker eating into their share of hits. There is a big probabilty that the site wont last long. The solution here is not to make and break such site, but to work on a framework that helps in the convergence of social networks. I read an article in Wikipedia that explores such possibilities using concepts of microformats and webservices. It will be a long shot trying to please all the network owners and also whether such an approach will be adopted by the sites, is still a matter yet to be seen.
Update : Kurt comments that ProfileLinker doesn’t need your credentials for the basic operations, but for actions like checking for new mesasges etc. There is whole lot of features put in which doesnt require credentials and the site intends to release more features in the coming days.Â
Hi Ritesh,
First off, thanks for the write-up on ProfileLinker. I’m a member of the advisory board and I just wanted to clarify something. ProfileLinker actually doesn’t need your site credentials in order to do the basic services. While it will need your credentials in order to do the things such as checking for new messages, there is quite a robust offering to be had without entering your credentials.
You should check it out over the next couple weeks as we add some new features we’ve had waiting in the wings. I think you’ll like some of them (and most of them don’t need your credentials).
Happy New Year!