People-centric data sets

With so many people Net-connected so much of the time these days, we now have (potential) access to an really interesting collection of people-centric data sets -- e.g. buddy lists, social networks, blog content & links, and also geographic vicinity (via ad-hoc local networking like Apple's Rendevous & many cellphone services).

I'm starting to see some exciting networked apps that integrate these services, and I'll be writing about these more in the coming weeks. If you know of a people-centric networked service that integrates buddy lists/social networks/blogs/geographic info in a dynamic, compelling way, please let me know about it -- I'm collecting examples.

I have a strong gut feeling that dynamism is key for creating an addictive, compelling networked service. More on that later.

Comments

[Patrick Barry]

You might be interested in a mobile social application my team built at IBM over last summer. The idea was to create a platform of ad-hoc awareness (like Rendezvous), with p2p application sharing built on top of it. So that coding users could make a new social app on their installation and wherever they went, people would see a new application available in that area. In particular, one of the possibilities that fascinated me was making it capable of passing along profiles of information not only to people discovered in the vicinity, but also to people those users later came into contact with - a facsimilie of spreading information across social networks automatically. Being able to control one's electronic aura of profile information and it's spreadability dynamically were top priority. We also played with some other ideas, but here's the public demo of what we liked to call Socializer: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/socializer

[AJ Kim]

Excellent! Thanks for the info Patrick, I'll check it out.

[michael lee]

Hi, my name is michael lee.
I've been working in www.nate.com for 4yrs.
www.cyworld.com and mini-hompy(blog) are on a roll in korea. I Think that this case will be the best example that you are lookin for.
Nice reading your beautiful articles.
I enjoyed them..

[AJ Kim]

thanks for the comment, michael. Can you please tell us more about mini-hompy and point to some good sites? I'm aware of this trend but not yet deep into it, and I'd love to know more!!!