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The Ego project started in 2008 with a focus on decentralized social networks. Ego presents an agent-based, user-centered architecture for storing, discovering and sharing information about an expandable set of applications like location, reviews, buying/selling goods etc. Users can fluidly create agents that hold information relevant to the user's intention. For example, in a buying and selling scenario users announce a product they are interested in, then the system lumps together users interested in the same product, allowing direct discovery. Agents might make other types of information available like location and reputation to allow other agents to make more informed decisions. We demonstrate an interactive visualization of different urban scenarios involving 1000 agents that discover each other in the context of some personal interest. We explore the tradeoffs of combining three different types of information: physical details, reputation and location.