Frits.me Concept MindMap

So probably by now you know we’re building Frits.me a little website that allows you to extract some information from you Hyves profile in order to find cool people on Twitter. It’s quite easy, but it took a little MindMap to get the idea concrete. We’ve made this MindMap a so called WikiMap, which allows you to view and collaborate on the idea.

Here’s the MindMap click edit if you want to add or change some ideas!

Watch us finish Frits.me

So this rainy Sunday Frits.me will be born. Today we’ll finish stuff like design and data connections so everything works.

You can watch us live @ Ustream:

Video chat rooms at Ustream

Prototyping Weekends #2 Frits.me

This weekend we’re having a Prototyping Weekends in collaboration with Dutch Coast Software and Red Factory.

A team of 10 skilled people is working on a little service around Open Filter from Peers. Open Filter concentrates on creating options for end-users to use their meta-data to do more on the net. In other words, your data is free to move with you. A bit of a dataportability kind of thing. Besides porting data, they focus on using the data to establish interesting relations. Check out their LinkedIN bookmark example (note: this is created before the API release of LinkedIN).

Today we’ve been working on Frits.me (name is because we still had that domainname, but also because we liked it).

Frits.me connects Hyves and Twitter via Oauth to help you find interesting people on Twitter based on your Hyves information. For now this will be done on a few datasets. We pull the data and connect it to our (still) little database of Twitter people. At the moment the match is made via context but in the feature this will be done with Open Filter. When more people start to use the service there will be more relations available so we can create co-relations and be more accurate.