What I think could be really cool about this is if we could make a VMWare appliance out of it will some sort of GUI for people to add the components they want. All the cool kids are doing this today and I think it would overcome the biggest trouble with adoption, which is getting everything installed.
Grappling as I am with a mod_perl application that I want to utilise the database model from, I can attest that any way of decoupling deployment from implementation is good and absolutely nescessary. Mostly I'm just sorting through the crap that Catalyst already does much better (and better documented == > 0) before I can begin the port.
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* Collections (links, recipes, jokes, images, movies)
* Social networks (friends, dating, interest groups)
* Collaborations
Well I'm working on getting a catalyst model for academic bibliographic databases at the moment. These are fairly horriffic in terms of the structure of the database schema. So hopefully when I'm through this code it can feed back into a few of these categories. As I'm basing this on GPL code I don't see why not.
Another area I'm interested in is biological classifications. Again complex, particularly if you start looking at environmental classification along with linnean classification. Basically you start superimposing a binary tree on top of some kind of more complex graph data structure. This has quite a lot in common with web based social networking stuff (think geographical classificaiton versus social classification).
It seems to me that collaborations, at present are two paralell streams of web 2.0. First there is the social bookmarking stuff - like delicious, flickr and co. Secondly reddit digg and iuesthis type thingies.
Nutting these things out in a distributed manner that confoms to published apis and has usability features to try to collect good data is a good basis to build the blocks for the semantic web - which is what Tim O'Rilley is on about - versus Tim Berners-Lee and the development of W3C standards. Standards have been of limited importance to date *cough*microsoft* so I can't see why we've got to wait for something that won't work anyway...
Theoretical rant over. Let me know if I can help.
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