This is something, which was also talked about within my old team about 2 years ago … the ability to create a timeline or stream of your social or web interactions, and then publish them either privately or publicly. It also came up in a number of interesting conversations last year in relation to mapping a users life stages in a similar fashion.
Greg Smith writes about it again here on his blog, serial consign, and makes some very interesting recommendation on how this might work, what is currently out there doing ’some’ of the job and also some extreme, ‘new plastic’ ways of displaying the data (although we had a very good one, with timelines and crowd views).
I agree that this is an area which will grow and expand over the coming year, and allowing users to provide a view, in one of place of not just their social graph, but web interactions, contributions and journeys as well, could become very powerful and perhaps a needle mover for Open Data Initiatives. A bit like an automated web activity stream, which shows your life online in digestible chunks.
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“Digestible chunks” eh?
It is kind of abstract and insane that people can aggregate their activites like it.. i know that services like Twitter are really only the tip of the iceberg for what lays ahead. I’m really interested to see how people will be able to mobelize this information!
In the short term (if nothing else), I’d like to be able to claim “ownership” of comments from across the web and aggregate them on my own blog as content.