Connectiyo, again!

Yes, I have worked on Connectiyo before... This time it's not going to be an all-in-one website, in fact, it's going to be exactly the opposite of that; It'll barely store any data, here's how it'll work (I think I've blogged about this before):
There are so many social websites today, each has its own profile, status, info, etc... There are websites that try to put them all in one place but they end up adding to the mess rather than fix it; they all have "what are you doing" and their own profile.
Connectiyo is different; it won't store any data of its own, it won't even have its own accounts: It'll use facebook connect.
It will allow you to gather all your contacts from everywhere (Yahoo, Google, facebook, twitter, etc) all in one place, merge the same contacts, eventually, you'll everything you need to communicate with your friends in one place, and the cool thing is that, unlike similar services, they don't have to use the site for you to see their updates.
I really think this'll work out 'cause I actually have a problem to solve unlike before.
I started designing the interface, and I started reading about using facebook's API with Flex, however, I still need to finish my final project (final changes), after that I'll be free to work on Connectiyo, I might even start a blog about it (Yey!).

PS: I had to choose between this project and another crazy idea I have. I might blog about that one soon.

God bless you all!

The social web

I've been posting for a while about Connectiyo, which, basically, was supposed to be a social networking website and because of that, I've be abstaining from using many websites because I didn't want to make them grow and later compete against them.

Just recently, I abandoned Connectiyo so I'm starting to use a lot of websites that I didn't before.

And my fears were true: Things are messed up!

There are so many websites that do so many things, and the annoying thing is that it's hard to get them all to work together.

You'll say "There are websites like Plaxo and Mugshot that try to put everything together", that's right, they try to do that, but it's still not working; you still have your pictures scattered over flickr, facebook, and picasa, you still have your blogs posts scattered over blogger and facebook, you status is still hard to sync for every website you use has its own "What are you doing?" field and only few allow synchronising with other websites, and you still have your chat contacts scattered over yaho, msn, and gtalk.

Someone must do something about this, and one thing I'm sure of is that that someone is not going to be me; I don't want to create a website that'll end up to be another website to be merged with others rather than one that merges them all.

Updates again

OK... So I haven't posted in two months now.

Here's what's new:

Trying to finish my project on time so I won't have to do it next semester and I'll be free to work on Connectiyo.

Connectiyo is going pretty well, although still far from it, I'm steadily approaching a usable version, and I'm kinda confused about some details. The development is kinda boring 'cause there aren't interesting stuff to do in it for now.

I have been asked to create a website... I'll be working on it after my exams are over (31 of Dec).

I need to rant about traditions but it's too long so I'll do that in a separate post.

I came to some conclusions about YFC (Youth For Christ) that I'll blog about soon.

What else? Can't wait till Christmas ;)

Oh! I also feel like commenting on ESR's post.

Updates

So, I haven't posted for almost a month now, here's what's going on:

I have some pending assignments.
Connectiyo is going really well (I need to update its page).
Programming is fun.
I'm getting distracted from programming easily.

Uh, that's all I guess :)