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Social Software ideas
December 30, 2003
While social software may be the internet revolution du jour among venture capitalists, as a user I’m still waiting for the killer social software app that lives up to all the market hype. Recently I’ve been thinking about how the current crop of options could be improved upon, or at the very least, how they could be leveraged to be something useful for users. I’ve come up with a few ideas, some half-baked, others fully baked. I offer them here in the hopes that someone, somewhere already built it or would like to build it.
Colloquial mapping - Yahoo Maps + Slashdot
Geographical opinion systems - Epinions + Friendster
Collaborative consumed media - Friendster + ??? (some sort of media management service)
Reputation management ideas - Multi-variate reputation management
I’m sure this has probably been posted before, but they’re four pretty thoroughly thought out ideas. As I’ve mentioed before, social won’t stand on it’s own, but combined with other services it can revolutionize things anew.
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Sylvain Poirier April 13th, 2008 - 6:13 am
I have defined a plan for new internet functions that aim to be a basis of solutions to such problems.
Especially, I defined the logical operations for ensuring trust online, while at the same time keeping the possibility of anonimity.
Indeed, if only trust was ensured, then having a wiki system with editing rights depending on trust, would be enough to gather the reliable informations on all subjects.
It would be a free software. There has already been a first version of a few first functions (forum to serve as replacement for email) The problem is that I do not currently have good programmers. How can I find reliable web programmers to contribute ? If only it was already implemented, it would be much easier…
http://spoirier.lautre.net/trustedforum.html