[amirmc]

This just made personal search a very interesting space.

Put aside for a moment the fact that you're giving your personal data to (yet another) third party. Imagine you tie all your social online stuff to a service that's good at aggregating/displaying the data from each one. Now I could have a 'dashboard' of my online life as well as being able to query it (e.g when/how did I last interact with Alice or Bob?).

I don't know how good Alpha actually is but if I take the visualisations on faith, then I'm interested to know where they're headed. If I were a startup in the personal data/aggregation space, I'd be paying very close attention.

[ninetax]

It's hard to ignore that I've just granted someone most of the permissions available to my facebook, but I totally agree that if I could get an aggregation of all my social data in one place and pipe it into some visualizations to create a dashboard it would be pretty formidable.

I just wish I could have that without having to sacrifice my privacy. Why not have a standalone app like the days of old?

[amirmc]

> "... if I could get an aggregation of all my social data in one place and pipe it into some visualizations to create a dashboard it would be pretty formidable."

You mean something like this? (or at least enabled by it). http://perscon.net/overview/dataware.html

It's one of the research topics I'm involved with. Any feedback/opinions appreciated (I can pass it on to the folks actually working on it).