social network web service

People Aggregator/Social Network/Web Service
Found on: PeopleAggregator



I first heard about Marc Canter and his social networking site "PeopleAggregator" in an article I read in Wired magazine almost a year ago called "Cracking the Code to Romance". There was a little blurb in the article about how Marc's site was going to be built on (at the time) an untested open source protocol called FOAF (friend of a friend).

Almost three years after the article was written, the site has finally gone live.

So what's so special about the site and why did it take so long to launch?

Michael Arrington from Techcrunch put it best:

PeopleAggregator is the product of 3 years of self funded work by Canter to bridge the gap between all the online social networking services available and move the industry towards a standards-based place of collaboration. I took a look inside the system today and talked to Canter on the phone. I wasn’t convinced that this was important before today - but now I am.

While others like Garrick Van Buren from MNteractive weren't impressed.

Three years to get anything off the ground is a long time but that's almost an eternity for a social network start up -- there's got to be something special about this site, right?

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