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Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online. This blog chronicles the processing of building it.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Profilactic to offer social graph management
Anyone who is familiar with Profilactic knows that we offer the Friends' Mashup. It aggregates all of the stuff that your Profilactic friends contribute all over the web. It is a pretty cool feature (just ask the guys at Spokeo).

One of the things that has been missing from the Friends' Mashup is the ability to exclude feeds that you're not interested in. For example, if you have added me as a friend (you have added me, right?) and you find that my Flickr photos annoy you, but you can't live without my Twitter updates, you can't really do anything about it.

Our upcoming "social graph manager" (we'll come up with a better name) will allow you to exclude my Flickr photos while still getting all of my Twitter updates that make your day complete. So your Friends' Mashup will contain only the information you really care about.

In addition, we'll be adding a new "auto friend" feature that will give you the option to pull in friend content from other networks, even if those friends aren't on Profilactic yet. So if you add Flickr as one of your sites, we'll give you the option to add the Photos from my Contacts feed into your Friends' Mashup. Currently, there are around 15 of our 97 sites, including Flickr, Twitter, ma.gnolia, Vox, Technorati, digg and Del.icio.us, that offer these types of feeds.

We think these new features will give Profilactic the most complete set of features for staying up-to-date with what your friends are doing online.

Let us know what you think.
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