The home page of the home page

It seems like my idea of the personal aggregator is finally being built as a full service by a few companies out there. Both Jaiku and Mugshot allow you to enter in basic information about your accounts on other services like Delicious and Flickr, and the systems create unified feeds for all these activities, plus a nice-looking landing page that lets you add more context from there.

They both take things one step further from the browser: Mugshot adds a desktop application that allows you to read your friends’ activity and immediately interact with their updates. (A Mugshot screenshot shows a “chat” link on one item. Once I sign up and play with it I’ll be able to talk more about the actual features — the “tour” is not as detailed as I would like.) Jaiku, on the other hand, adds a custom Nokia Series 60 mobile app for modifying your feed and reading your friends’. And being the Scandinavians they are, there doesn’t seem to be any plans to make an app that is for some phone other than Nokia in the near future.

There’s still a few features and use cases that I’ve been thinking about that neither have implemented yet, so if anyone is developing a similar service, drop me a line and we’ll chat. wink wink.