On 25/10/2006, at 11:01 AM, B.K. DeLong wrote:
I posted a a brainstorm on social networking and community-contributed near-live commuter information. I would really like the comments of folks on the list:
Bearing in mind that I'm a complete unknown with a mouth bigger than my public status...
The ideas you posted up would work, but it needs to be within a framework that exceeds the tipping point for making it worthwhile. Setting up an infrastructure to support just what you've said is too much work for too little result. If there was already some context, then you would be able to do what you want without needing to bother with trying to get other people involved.
That's the continual problem facing the multiple mashups that I see. Sites like digg and delicious are going to fade out because it just isn't worth the hassle of coping with individualised interfaces for the specific aspect that they offer. People want to find material that is interesting for them, and currently the best source of that is "a whole bunch of other people think it's interesting too".
The problem is that a "whole bunch" is too wide and disparate to continue being a rich source of information, and this is reflected in the increased noise to signal ratio as places become popular and more and more different kinds of people join the one site. So the only places that work at the moment are when everyone else is like you.
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