Erik Benson recently relaunched All Consuming with an emphasis on registered users, more media types (movies, music, etc., not just books) and … support for free-form tagging of those things. A folksonomy for books! I like it. Examples: Politics Physics Cooking It’s a little sparsely populated yet, but I can’t wait for this thing to… Read more ⇢

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about “leveraging the hive mind” with attention.xml. Basically, attention.xml is an XML spec for publishing your reading habits (how often you read a feed, how much time you spent reading a post, or when you last read a feed). It’s intended as an open foundation for a “cloud… Read more ⇢

Pito Salas has some interesting notepad noodling on taxonomies, folksonomies, etc., including a mapping of some familiar implementations of *onomies (del.icio.us, yahoo!, flickr, file system folders, etc.) into a two-dimensional grid with x axis := {for my own benefit, for other people’s benefit} and y axis := {my own stuff, other people’s stuff}. In other… Read more ⇢

This project at MIT … allows pet owners to interact through their pets’ social networks. SNIF comprises inexpensive hardware that can be unobtrusively and transparently affixed to pet collars and paraphernalia in order to augment pet-to-pet, pet-to-owner, and owner-to-owner interactions. More info in this PDF. Very cool. The thing is, you have to find other… Read more ⇢