The guy who created BooksWeLike is now apparently working on a general embeddable system for distributed categorization that does the following:
- Let you publish citations to books, urls, photographs and other digital ephemera.
- Categorize your observations using tags
- Pivot on tags and observations to find more like tags, observations and people.
- The application should be embeddable; running on personal systems not just LAMP / UNIX .
- Small
- Fast
- Clean understandable source
- Standards based
- A foundation for future projects
- Strong social discovery aspects
- Recommendation
- Tag clustering using LSI techniques (or any technique that comes to mind) [Note from Michael: LSI is apparently a text categorization algorithm that looks vaguely like Bayesian filtering to my highly untrained eye.]
- Perhaps even a general purpose content management system.
- Run on Java 1.2 or any ‘older language’ – don’t require bleeding edge (to improve embedability and portability).
(Found via heyblog, which appears to be temporarily down as of this writing.)
