First Look: YouAre

I confess. I am starting to lose track of all the applications that are streaming by these days. Maybe it’s the start of Alzheimer’s or something.

Anyway, I am going back to something I did back in the Precambrian explosion of applications, which was to chronicle all apps that I took a first peek at. These are ‘First Looks’ and in some cases I may get back with a more detailed post. But at least I will have (and you will, too) a repository with at least a thumbnail sketch of what the newest-thing-to-slide-out-of-the-application-extrusion-machine is.

I must have signed up for YouAre in October 2008, but I don’t have the faintest recollection of it (hence my plan to return to First Looks).

YouAre is “a free service to show the world who you really are.” Which translates to a service that aggregates your web world — blogs, tweets, etc. — along with some profile information, and then allows other YouAre users to follow you, using the Twitter open follower model. This is often called a ‘lifestream’. But it is creating a separate social network, not relying on Twitter. Looks like an attempt to knock off Twitter, or create a Spanish version of it.