I wrote a piece on a colleague’s product. It was a crowd sourced content discovery tool called Slynkr; it looked remarkably like DIGG which was exceptionally hot at the time, and I was very excited by its tagging functionality. …
FOAF
So one thing I have done inspired by last week’s workshop has been to set up a personal FOAF file, since removed. I used the foaf-a-matic to create it, and it can be browsed using the tabulator. …
Knowing me, knowing you in Zurich
I travelled to Zurich for a workshop on social media. It was a requirements gathering exercise and I originally published two articles, on the sun/oracle blog, one on Zurich and one on some ideas which became the social graph. These ideas were presented by Bertolt Meyer of Humbolt University, Berlin, who has recently published research into the fact that Knowledge Repositories don’t work. …