30Boxes, the online calendar service, soft-launched their new people search engine today.
The822 helps you to find more about a person by entering their email address - it returns information from social sites including your blog, Flickr account, Webshots photos and buddies,
MySpace blog,
Digg,
EvokeTV and
30 Boxes itself. The name is a play on 411 (411×2=822) and the aim is to bolster 30Boxes’ efforts in the identity space. They also want to encourage outside developers to make use of their web services by building tools that fetch info about your 30Boxes contacts and buddies.
I’m always concerned about these tools because you may have separate identities that you don’t want to merge - to use the obvious example, you might not want your employer to see your MySpace page. To give it its due, the822 does let you control the information that appears, but you’ll need to register for 30Boxes to do so. In many ways, this is similar to
ClaimID and
Naymz, giving you more control over your digital identity.
Nonetheless, it’s a nice extension of the brand, and a good way to promote the company’s web services platform.
See also
Webtop, the
ajax startpage from 30Boxes.
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