Ah, okay. I'll can that project then. I was writing a central aggregator that looked after all my content from various social sites and provided a central stream. Then I managed to find FriendFeed, started by a couple of ex-google guys. The idea is very simple. You have multiple online identities and want to provide a way for people to keep track of them all in one place. You create a FriendFeed and add all the services you use to that feed. It does the rest. Simple really...

This is the kind of technology I'm interested in. We have social networks for pretty much everything now, and to be quite honest, it can be something of a nightmare trying to keep up with them all.

Concepts such as OpenSocial appear to concentrate on making developers lives easier, and DataPortability, although something of a geek's wet dream, is still hardly in use and doesn't really do much for aggregating all these identities together. It's not perfect (it's still centralized and you need to add friends, it doesn't check all your friend's feeds for you), but it looks like a step in the right direction.

My FriendFeed lives here: http://friendfeed.com/kianryan