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Everybody needs a personal "status" page
Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2005
Lots of sites have status pages. I wish more people had them.
Yeah, status pages for people should be more popular, and I also wish they were a bit easier to make and maintain. It would be a nifty way to display information like:
I've long had a Lazy Web wish for a little perl script that could That way you could maintain a bunch of easy lists and the script does all the building and posting automagically. You could fake this with a blogging tool, but I like the idea of having it all updated in the background. Got a good personal status page? Seen one you liked? What would you post on yours? Have a fast trick for helping noobs make and post status points to the interweb? Care to pick up my Lazy Web gauntlet? 72 Comments
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 Ah, the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator...Submitted by Julian Bond (not verified) on October 19, 2005 - 9:06pm.
Ah, the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator page. The major blogging packages have really not addressed the "About Me" page to any great extent. Picture what might be:- - Structured CV and Profile data in human and machine readable format. (vcard, hCard, FOAF, whatever) - Personal Identity Server using one of the low end SSO systems like SXIP, OpenID, LID, TypeKey. - Aggregated RSS for your activity on the web. Flickr, del.icio.us, plazes, last.fm, Amazon wishlist, other blogs, blogrolling.com, RSS subscription lists, etc etc. Custom services to things like IM status. - Aggregating in arbitrary plain text lists as described above or with a real database and web UI - Arms length contact me form that lets people leave a private message without exposing your email address At the moment, weblogs are still just focussed on the personal publishing angle. We need to beef up the periphery and take them to the next stage. People are doing this ad hoc with sidebar applets, so it clearly should get baked into the core distributions. It's also a natural for the big hosted systems like MSN Spaces. One other similar need is the ability to automatically generate blog posts from blogs posted elsewhere on other systems. So if I post a blog on Ecademy or Tribe it should automatically appear in my home blog. Lots of potential code here. Somebody pick it up! » POSTED IN:
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