Collaborative Website Presence

A distributed system configured to aggregate website presence information comprising:

• a plurality of servers in communication with a first website server of a plurality of website servers, the plurality of servers configured to:
• receive a request from the first website server of the plurality of website servers to subscribe to aggregate website presence information of one or more affiliated website servers of the plurality of website servers,
• receive aggregate website presence information that includes a collection of website presence information for a plurality of website objects of the one or more affiliated website servers,
• receive aggregated website presence information from the first website server and the one or more affiliated website servers,
• aggregate the website presence information into the collection of website presence information based on a web presence scheme, the scheme including an indication of a method for deriving web presence information, and
• publish the collection of website presence information based on the web presence scheme to the first website server and the affiliated website servers.

A method for aggregating website presence information comprising:

• at a web presence server in communication with a first website server of a plurality of website servers:
• receiving a request from the first website server of the plurality of website servers to subscribe to aggregate website presence information of one or more affiliated website servers of the plurality of website servers, and
• receiving aggregate website presence information that includes a collection of website presence information for a plurality of website objects of the one or more affiliated website servers;
• and
• at one or more collaboration servers configured to receive aggregated website presence information from the first website server and the one or more affiliated website servers:
• aggregating the website presence information into the collection of website presence information based on a web presence scheme, the scheme including an indication of a method for deriving web presence information, and
• publishing the collection of website presence information based on the web presence scheme to the first website server and the affiliated website servers.