Building upon Dave Winer's idea of using the outliner in radio to build OPML based distributed directories, I would add the following idea, to add a graphical navigation ability similiar to Star Trees.

One good example of a hierarchial approach to data visualization is found at:

http://www.inxight.com/map/

Currently they give away their star tree creator software, if you try the above link, you will see a concrete exmpale that helps you navigate their website. Now what if we had the ability to convert our OPML based directories into graphic representations, with built in hotlinks to those sites featured in our OPML bookmakr files.

Reminds me of the MIT concept of "Flying Through Information", only instead we are flying the hierarchical directories. A friend on mine deveoped a concept like this called NetReality. And I remember way back when Netscape stole Guptha away from Apple, who had developed Hot Sauce. All of which helped people navigate through information. I think that Tim Bray may be doing something simliar with their Apache capatible product from his company, Antartica.ca

So let's Fly Through Distributed OPML Directories

8:35:15 PM    

from a BottomQuark.com story

Evolving the Social Network

Posted by JoeyPea on Tuesday, November 04 @ 14:27:44 CST

Anonymous writes "Here's a story published about a garage start-up called Huminity that is positioned to overtake Friendster in what is described as the technology of the year. The software itself is a combination of a chat-software and a social networking software, which is a pretty different approach to the web-based social networking sites that flooded the Internet lately. It was built by two friends with no funding who based everything on cheap and effective open-source software, and through viral growth and word of mouth built a network of more than 400,000 people."

Israeli Startup Worth a Look

Huminity

http://www.huminity.com/ or check out the Humnity blog

6:49:00 PM