facilitating social cataloging
Perhaps the title I have used is a little ambiguous, but what I mean by social cataloging is social bookmarking functionality for any type of content. We have seen that social bookmarking works (though is it profitable for the people than run the site excluding a buyout?). Now we are starting to see social bookmarking of specific types of content. There are a number of social bookshelf type sites (librarything and shelfari for example), as well as a few image social bookmarking sites (see my earlier post about them here).
What I imagine as the end version of all these sites is a web service that allows for the bookmarking or referencing of any type of content. The selling point and the aspect that makes this idea possible is that it would feature an API that lets 3rd party developers create gathering tools like traditional browser extensions and data importing schemes, as well as take the data aggregated and use it however they would like.
All of this would be based on a very simple standard for storing the data within the service. The point is not to try to handle doing everything and simply focus on streamlining the gathering and organization/output process so that any type of description data can be gathered, described, and displayed.
A basic gathering tool as well as a few output templates would of course be necessary to get things started, but I can easily see the web community jumping on such a service and creating absolutely amazing things with it.
If anyone knows of a project working on this or any companies doing something like this we would love to know about it. Comment here or contact us.
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