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We’re happy to announce that we won’t be updating the personal zeitgeist anymore. Pez, an open-source project that is being developed by Lee Kelleher and Ben Taylor was developed with the inspiration of the personal zeitgeist. We’ll be switching to Pez once everything is up and running, and we encourage everyone else to do so too.
Personal Zeitgeist was a very simple homepage for the person who leaves parts of themselves scattered all over the web. It was essentially a personal rss aggregator, with some basic structured information. It was divided into a few parts:
- Profile: Some basic information about you, a picture, and possibly some contact information.
- What you’re saying: Aggregates of blogs you run, journals, notes, etc. Basically anything you own that has a feed.
- What you’re seeing: For now, your flickr account feed from your public photos.
- What they’re saying: A feedster search of your name, with any pages that reference you or work you’ve done.
- What you’re reading: Feeds from your bookmarks, like delicious, or even information from your google reader starred page.
Installation was easy, just drop it in any php enabled web server (see the readme for more detailed instructions). Initial loads might be slow, but repeated queries are cached to improve performance.
The personal zeitgeist is built on top of the wonderful SimplePie and licensed under the LGPL. Special thanks to our colleague Leonardo Bonanni for offering his identity as the default sample for the project.
You can still download it here (unsupported) or see a demo here.
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