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The Missing Profile Page - or: Relaunch of pixelsebi.com

November 2nd, 2008 · 11 Comments · Social Web, Thoughts

Above you see an extract of a first draft of a wireframe (see here the full wireframe) I have done the last days, while I work on the relaunch of this website.

The basic idea is, as you might have already noticed, that I create my very own profile page - which will be the new homepage of pixelsebi.com - and to therefore have my very own comprehensive and aggregated online identity - hosted on my own server, under my own domain - everything done based on open standards and Wordpress.

This profile page integrates all the things you wanna have

  • a picture of yourself and links to the most important services you use on the web
  • a big interactive area to promote yourself, your publications, your projects and so on
  • basic contact details and a possbility to connect with you (”friend request”)
  • a place to display some RSS Feeds like your recent blogposts, podcasts or event on upcoming org
  • an aggregated(!) (will explain that in another post) list of all your contacts
  • a livestream of your activities on the web (take a look at the full wireframe)
  • and even more areas to integrate content you might publish elsewhere

I always wanted to do that for more than a year now, but never really started to make it happen. But now - due to the increasing adoption of OpenID, Open API’s, Microformats and so on, it makes more sense than ever before - because now it’s realistic to implement all the cool features I have in mind.

I will also take a closer look into Noserub and the DiSo Project again, because what they work on get’s pretty close to what I need in the background.

I have never published a wireframe of mine so far, but thought that in this case it would be a good idea to share my ideas and to get feedback. I will publish more about my ideas within the next weeks and will highlight special features you might already forefeel if you take a closer look at the wireframe ;)

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  • 1 Björn // Nov 3, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Looks quite nice so far. A Hifi-Wireframe :-) It’s consequent, refering to your activity for open web etc.

    This example shows how more and more personal websites might look like in the future. Clustered bits from activity streams combined with latest news from a personal blog. Which still will be the vital part of a personal website.

  • 2 Sebastian Küpers // Nov 3, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Thanks :) Yeah I even believe that the “personal homepage” might see an unexpected revival in the near future, when the idea of distributed socialnetworks really becomes reallity and hits the mass market. (if it ever will - but I of course hope so)

    In the early days of the “personal homepage” we didn’t really knew, what it was good for and what we should put on it ;)

    Than on the one hand blogs and wiki’s arised, so that everybody was able to publish without any html skills and on the other hand we now use more and more services where we create little pieces of content - and if it’s only favoring a video on Youtube.

    The result is/was a very widely spread online identity, which chunks of content from and/or about us at quite a lot of different places.

    The Facebook app platform was then in my eyes the first big approach where people in the mass started to aggregate those chunks again on their profile page at facebook. (and maybe bloggers do that in their sidebars)

    So the next logical step is maybe taking this back to your (old school) “personal websites” with an underlaying technology which allows us to do all these things we now can only do in a closed environment of a social network site. (add friends, manage privacy, direct messaging, introducing each other, groups etc.)

    I would say that this is exactly what DiSo and Noserub wanna achieve. As I said many times before in blog posts of mine: I think that social networking will be one day a standard of the internet like http, email, ftp, rss is today and Facebook, MySpace and Co. will only remain as brands offering their very own interface and services created around that, like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, GMX and do it today already for the standard service of the internet: email.

    But as you can send an email of course to anyone, regardless of the provider both parties are using, it will be possible to “social network” whith each other, regardless which platforms you use.

    And I think that will lead us to some degree back to this kind of site I plan for my own right now. And then the “homepoge building set” offered by many webhoster will just have a few other modules with much more connectivity/interoperability than today.

    :D

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