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www.crossleft.org

Tripp, thanks but I don't think CrossLeft is what I'm looking for. Sorry to have not put it better.

Let me try again. I'd like to be able to read the stories in the NYT that Ethan Zuckerman, Rebecca MacKinnon and you find interesting. So, I'd like to be able to point at the three of you and tell the NYT to assemble a page based on what you 3 are reading, tagging, linking to, or whatever. Except that I don't want this just for the NYT. I'd like it to be offered by some site that's aggregating lots and lots of news/posts.

Or did I miss the point about CrossLeft?

Philly Future filters specific to authors in our region who we feel are worth reading. So you get what 300 people are talking about right now. But that's not generic enough.

My Web 2.0 from Yahoo! lets you add folks to your "community" and use their additions as filters to search and for popular links. Is that closer?

Oh Rojo!

I forgot about this! I think it lets you do exactly what you are talking about.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

stumbleuponit, it has 2 main features
one is randomly selecting pages on a topic you choose that has been pointed out by others
the other is to look at a site and read all the comments other user left on it,

there is a firefox extention too that does the same now, I guess the name is purplepanther or purple something

the connection between different users is quite null but yet it gather people opinions

Now I understand. Hmm...

I still do it all "by hand." Mine are primitive, pre-fire, internet practices, I know.

Hi David,

It depends on how you define you friends I suppose...one (loose) example of the definition of those in your social network are those in your RSS reader, expressed as an OPML, or blogroll.

If this counts, Kevin Burton's Talrank (see http://tailrank.com) meets this requirement.

For my thoughts on this see:

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/11/12/492169.aspx

Alex.

I think TalkDigger (www.talkdigger.com) might do at least the first part of this ... combined with a tag cloud to monitor the development of conversations about a specific issue.

I also suspect that you could create reasonably easily a custom Suprglu template / page that would accomplish this. Here's an example of a Suprglu page with a tag cloud ... i assume you could designate the specs for a tagcloud that would do what you want.

You could tell your Suprglu page to follow Ethan and Rebecca's RSS feeds and it would then sort those based on the tags they carry ... with links to same-subject deli.cio.us tags, you'd then have a socially filtered set of recommendations ?

i'm probably misinterpreting the core of your question, tho'.

I think TailRank might be what you're looking for. This feature isn't in there JUST yet but it should be in there in a week or so...

Feel free to email me if you want to chat.

Kevin

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Rojo

And it's possible with del.icio.us.

And they are all going to die. Well not really.

Hi David, as time has permitted I've been playing in this area using FOAF as the social network representation language, see in particular SparqlSphere. FOAF is ideal for the task as it can be meaningfully merged with other RDF-based data (see the notes around semblog. Offhand I can think of these other tools that use it (a bit of Googling may be productive...):

The Chumpalogica aggregator uses FOAF-defined channel lists. The running examples I'm aware of are actually more topic- than person-oriented, and include Planet RDF and Planet Web 2.0.

I believe the Knobot aggregator/blog tool also uses FOAF for the purpose (along with various trust/relevance algorithms), but the docs are a bit light...

Check out CommonTimes. I think it's exactly what you are looking for.

It has friends, groups and aggregates news...

CommonTimes.org has a "stories from my friends" feature. Check your friends page and you'll see stories that I've bookmarked. The social features of CT are evolving, but I think this is generally what you're looking for.

Currently there's not a direct URL to link to the friends page directly, but I'm told that there will be soon--the team is reworking the page nav.

Is this one?
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