[Geowanking] "formal" photo of GeoWankers at Where 2.0

[stephen white]

On 18/05/2008, at 5:26 AM, Anselm Hook wrote:
> This could spur an ecosystem of parties who would try to answer  
> questions... and it would spur the creation of trust filters and  
> permissioning policy... in some ways similar to fire-eagle....   Old  
> style searching might feel old fashioned, like television, by  
> comparison...  In fact you could probably build a pretty good  
> searchable internet without any single definitive search company.
>
> Has anybody done that?


I haven't, but I'd like to have an environment where something like  
this could be tried. Right now, you have to set up a web site, then  
try and get enough people to use it, while overcoming the "not enough  
people using it" problem.

Instead of that current path, how about an environment where there is  
a steady base of users (like geowankers) and a mechanism for trying  
out those ideas? That's the point I'm driving towards. How do we lower  
the cost of ideas?

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   steve at adam.com.au