I just noticed that another Future of Web Apps attendee “Second Brain“, much like MeeCard, was focussing on aggregating your online life (aka lifestream). I hadn’t noticed them in the two days and wonder if they were even there. This company though has made it’s service public already which makes analyzing and reviewing it a bit easier.

Unlike MeeCard and more like Jaiku, this app focusses a bit more on creating an online lifestream for you to share to others. I therefore would miss the option to use this site as an online businesscard (with lifestream aggregation). Further more I noticed there is no “aggregated” RSS feed that your friends could subscribe to, which would make it probably a more useful tool (add a new feed to you aggregation and your friends will be subscribed instantly!).It seems to be a cool trend of sites (I even have another one that I will review soon) that try and make it interesting for people with an active online social life to have one local repository to share their information and lifestreams. Still, I can’t see one that makes it a business.

So, the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference is over, and it were 2 amazing days. This conference was quite an impressive one and I thank the guys behind Carsonified for giving me the opportunity to attend for free. I plan to do a few “roundups” of some of the exhibitors that were presenting, and this first one is on MeeCard.

I actually had a similar idea to MeeCard a while back when I ran into troubles with my MooCards that had 3 urls on it. I realized that it would make sense to have one central place online where people can find you, your lifestream, your details and your external links on all other websites, without having that content all on your own website. I decided to write something like this as an experiment for me to learn Ruby on Rails but never got much further than this.

The idea behind Meecard (example) is to have one online card that you can “configure” yourself and have it show your lifestream, links to your accounts, personal info, and basically anything more. They haven’t gone public yet so I am hoping to some beta access soon and give it a real try, as it sounds interesting and I would like to see how configurable it is.

I never really went into taking my personal project that seriously, as I noticed in a few discussions with friends that it was pretty hard to get a businessmodel around this. When I asked the same question to the MeeCard guys they noted that they hadn’t really thought about that either.