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December 30, 2003
matt haughey floats some interesting ideas
Posted by Liz Lawley
In a new feature on his site, Matt Haughey has posted a series of
interesting social software ideas. Geographic components figure heavily among them, including a user-annotatable mapping system ("MeFi meets Mapquest"), a geographic opinion rating system ("what do folks 'round yonder think of that there grocery store?"). I think he's right to see geographically-linked services as a key direction for new social software tools--my new year's prediction is that we'll see more activity in that realm than any other this year.
Other ideas floated in the article are some reputation management tools, and better ways to share playlists (and booklists, and movie lists, etc) with your friends.
(Via
Anil, who always seems to find the best stuff first!)
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1. Zbigniew Lukasiak on December 31, 2003 6:40 AM writes...
Talking about the "Collaborative consumed media" idea there is a tribe.net group with the goal of building such application: http://matadorp2p.tribe.net
Permalink to Comment2. Frank Ruscica on December 31, 2003 10:07 AM writes...
Liz,
Re: geographically-linked services, VOIPCos with local calling plans will be rolling out social software complements. I'm involved with one project, rolling out very soon in NYC...
Some very alpha details at opportunityservices.com/execsumm...
Permalink to Comment3. Frank Ruscica on December 31, 2003 10:08 AM writes...
execsumm.html, that is...
Permalink to Comment4. Matt on January 1, 2004 7:59 AM writes...
Geographically-linked social software: tom coates's presentation from last years etcon: http://www.plasticbag.org/files/misc/etech.ppt (5 meg powerpoint)
Permalink to Comment5. Matt on January 1, 2004 10:12 AM writes...
Geographical socially-constructed antiquarian guide to britain: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/home/ [turn up your speakers...]
Geographical socially-constructed guide to where to get drunk: http://www.beerintheevening.com/
Geographical socially-constructed city guides: http://openguides.org/
the original: Knowhere from 1996 or so: http://knowhere.co.uk/
One woman geostuff industry Jo Walsh: http://space.frot.org/
The Cartographic Congress 2003:
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/CcSemanticMappingWeek?PHPSESSID=f21c4eddd585e5a99126fe5418c77a82
I guess that the denser, more precise postcode mesh of Britain means people have been thinking of and more importantly doing this stuff for a long while in the UK.
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