Writing a Social Content Engine
This just in from Anselm Hook. We started on a thread about compound feed schemas and ended up defining social content engines.
I received this email today…..
Hi Marc,
I wouldn’t mind joining on the ourmedia project if you have room to squeeze me in - sounds like fun!
I’d want to introduce del.icio.us style tagging or if already there try use lsi techniques to do tag clustering.
I’m thinking that the social ’synthesis’ aspect of this is probably going to be a kind of third wave of internet services; where first wave was static web pages, second wave was structured personal publishing via blogs, and now social discovery.
It’s not just personal digital lifestyle aggregation - as nice as that is to have especially with our lives today… personal stuff is interesting insofar as helping people deal with all of their shit, but the social discovery aspect is probably where this will all make a difference / improve quality of life for more people and the like.
I’m knocking together an essay on how to write a social content server. My feeling is that there will be many of these soon - and that they will all have to learn how to federate their data between servers:
http://hook.org/anselm/essays/20040915.htm
… and of course I’m writing p2pmap.org, bookswelike.net , thingster.org etc all around this rather seductive philosophy…
The whole space fascinates me… at least this year 
- a
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