[Search-l] more than just interoperability

[Pushparajan V]

On 6/1/07, Aerik Sylvan <aerik at thesylvans.com> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about something that is kind of tangential to this -
> one of the things we've discussed is getting a large amount of proactive
> human data - tags, or something like them.  It would take a really large
> number of tags (or whatever) to be really useful.  Hopefully something like
> millions of websites each tagged by hundreds of people with at least several
> tags.  So a dataset of perhaps a billion records is easy to imagine.
>
> But, it's not easy to accumulate or process.  Processing it is a technical
> hurdle which will be fun to tackle, but accumulating the data is a whole
> other matter.
>
> So, here it is:  Getting data from existent social bookmarking services
> may be an option we should consider.  Think of it - aggregating data from
> del.icio.us, stumbleupon, etc.  Now, I can't imagine how we'd get Yahoo to
> give us the data from del.icio.us, but maybe there are other providers who
> would be willing to do this.  Or perhaps we look at paying them for it, at
> least enough to cover their bandwidth and other overhead.
>
> Anybody got an ideas around this type of thing?


Yeah.. its a good way to find the actual interest of the people thru social
book marking, digg and many other social websites.. But it all matters
whether they are ready to release data open to such open source search
projects.. Its always possible to take those data for a small sum or even
for free if we have more user base and many gets involved in the project.

But as you mentioned, del.icio.us, stumbleupon.. they must be very open to
support this project and must think about getting money with a open source
business model instead of being more private and having deals with big heads
around..

Thats the difficult part i guess...

According to me, Web 2.0 is not that open and users are getting caged with
the some closed social networking sites..

Aerik
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