I mentioned Plaxo a couple of weeks ago, when they released Pulse. They promised to release at least some new feed functionality when the site comes out of beta (end of summer).
Well, Plaxo delivered on the promise by introducing Online Identity Consolidator as part of the Open Social Graph effort, which in short makes it pretty easy to consolidate all the web locations (sources) of personal information. The idea is to put all your profiles scattered around the internet on sites and social networks in one place. Friends can now keep in touch with you across multiple services, without you having to tell each new site what other online tools you are already using. By adding “rel=me” to the link tag you are effectively telling the bot that the link destinations contains information about you. This makes it easy for Online Identity Consolidator to retrieve such links and recognize them as personal information links.

There are simple instructions on how to implement the necessary changes in order for this to work, but you can see them in more detail on Plaxo. Oh, and BTW the source code is in Python.

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