social content engine

Anslem Hook is building an open-source "social content engine for organizing and sharing content with our friends"

He writes:

"The service we build will let you:

Publish observations or 'stuff' onto a website.
Categorize it variety of ways.
Pivot on yours or others observations to discover other related topics or persons.


Our work will be modelled on newly emerging services including del.icio.us, Flickr and Webjay . The code itself will be a rewrite based on actually a fairly small subset of Thingster and BooksWeLike which I've been developing (and learning to understand the implications of) over the last 6 months or so. If you haven't used delicious in particular you need to stop reading this, go there, make an account and play with it for a while.

Users use these services to organize their own content for later recollection. But since the services are public, other users can peek into the collective space, and discover similar items, topics or persons.

In this project we're going to look for opportunities to stress the 'synthesis' aspect of social discovery; to escape from the pattern of curated collections managed and presented by one person. If there is time it would be fun to play with generating statistics and views on participants and their recommendations as well."

...what scope here for collaboration, I wonder? We certainly have some valuable extra insights at Kendra and i-together to contribute to such a "social content engine".