Today, Marc Canter took the wrapper off PeopleAggregator

PeopleAggregator is a Social Network with a difference. You can build your own site and network of people, groups, and media with it!

While on first impressions the user interface and design is hideous, it looks very promising. Communities will love the APIs!

Here are some of the features:

  • AJAX drag-n-drop content sections on your personal peofile page that displays your relations (friends, colleges, etc), a photo, your flickr, delicious, networks you belong to and a link list. There's a personal info section you can fill out and place access restrictions on who can see what parts of that information. Nobody, everybody and immediate relations privacy measures. There's the ability to upload your CV and list your professional info as well as snippets of text area information for you to fill in the details about you.
  • You can join groups and browse members content
  • Upload Media: Images (up to 500kb), tag it and describe it while setting image access and what album you place it in. Audio or Video (up to 3MB)
  • Blog and create content either a post, audio, images, video, events, reviews, people or groups.
  • Creating groups allow you to create links to external group spaces or ones you've made in your people aggregator network.
  • People, this item lets you describe peoples details.
  • Review all sorts of different standard types.. eg: local services, events, bar/clubs, books…
  • Event creation
  • All using structureblogging formats it appears.
  • A simple manager to manage your content.
  • A search to search that content
  • A gallery of your Images/Audio/Video, you can also view friends media or groups media
  • Clicking on an audio loaded windows movie player, Video loaded embedded Quicktime for .mov (without any video)
  • There's a people search, by details though not very detailed. Age isn't listed.
  • You can create your own groups and invite people.
  • Create a network for anyone to join and create groups inside that network. Media too, basically aggregate member content into the network. In other words; create social networks inside the people aggregator social network. This would have to be the best feature, allowing communities to build their own homes and share their content with one another. It's just a pity the site is ugly and the content creation too complicated and long-winded in a lot of areas. This is where the API's might come in handy to design your own.

If you'd like an invite, leave a comment.