On Friendfeed this evening, and Robert Scoble posted a link about People Browsr.
It’s still very much in development right now, currently at alpha 0.69
First you go to the web site.
Then you add your twitter ID and password, and it then asks you for your email address.
Then you get a list to work down, if you wish. You can add Friendfeed, Seesmic, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Digg and Photobucket. Just enter your username in these services and follow the prompts that appear in the window.
After you’ve added all that you want to click on the button at the bottom of the page, and you’re taken into the web site interface itself.
You’re in twitter by default, but by clicking in the top left blue area of the page, you bring up a menu with the other services you’ve told People Browsr. about.
Click on one, and you get a line of text options. Click on one of those, and a new column is created at the right hand side of your browser, containing your choice.
You can mix and match. You could have Twitter Friends in one column, your Flickr images in another, and your Friendfeed friends in the third column. Depending on the resolution of your monitor and how many windows you have set up, depends on if you need to scroll sideways or not to see them all.
Let’s take a look at the Twitter Friends column first, as this is one that most everyone will have in their browser, I’m sure.
Click on the thumbnail image of a friend, and you’ll get a bigger picture come up. Now this is where it gets mind bogglingly interesting!
I clicked on Robert Scoble’s image, as I follow him in Twitter, and he’s an interesting guy, as we all know.
His bigger picture displays for a few seconds and then disappears. I’m left with a fairly long rectangle. Right at the top, I can see how many followers he has, and how many are following him, with some thumbnails. These are his followers or those he is following, depending on which text you click above the images – followers or following.
Clicking on his profile, gives you his Twitter profile! For a moment Glance down the bottom of this box, and you can see a tab marked ‘people tags’. You can add him to one of the tags already in there, or add a new one. Up to you. That way, you can build up tag lists, of similar people, based on your own criteria.
Back next to that profile tab at the top of the box, you can click on ‘stream’. That takes you to his twitter stream, whatever he has recently posted.
If you click on his tiny thumbnail next to that, you see his bigger image appear again.
Now, if you click on the PP cloud tag, you get the option to add whatever you now about him in the box. Someone has added that he has just been to China.
Now, there is more. Clicking on other Twitter users, that have added in their Flickr account, Facebook, YouTube etc, you can see the images and videos they have in those accounts, as tiny thumbnails.
Click on them, and you see a bigger image. Click on a Seesmic or YouTube Video thumbnail image and you get the video to run in the window.
OK, This is a very brief round-up of what I’ve found at first glance. Robert Scoble reports in Friendfeed that PeopleBrowsr will launch properly next week.
It should be something to look out for.
