October 12, 2003

this is the Web, so I can update it later, right?

Christian Crumlish

Tim Bray reports from Foo Camp, touching on matters of search and a Technorati vs. Blogdex deathmatch.

Two things that make me want to talk to Cameron Marlow (of Blogdex):

  • Cameron has been doing some work grouping people, with respect to any blogger, into Friends, the people who you've linked to and link to you, Fans, people who link to you even though you haven't, and Favorites, people you link to you who haven't linked back.
  • Cameron is interested in tracking meme flow....

Sam Ruby is digging it:

Raising this up several meta-levels: a couple hundred people descended on FOO simply for the opportunity to collaborate and share. Most of the people present I didn't know two years ago (before I started blogging). Most of them didn't know me then either.

Now we know each other and collaborate via shared published content. Increasingly, this will be visual. People will be able to effortlessly capture what they see and share it with friends and family. The recipients can time shift this content as they see fit.

Aaron Swartz is green with envy (what geek wouldn't be?):

Note to self: Invent "Next Big Thing" so you can go to Foo Camp (to paraphrase Seth Schoen, "You are in a field in Sebastapol. This field has better Internet access than most universities. You are surrounded by 100 of the smartest geeks."). Alternately, sneak in and pose as someone's son.

As for his second note-to-self, I think Aaron is a shoo-in for Stanford, for what it's worth. Any university worth its salt would be out of their mind to turn him away.

Posted by xian at October 12, 2003 7:27 PM
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