Bookmarking -> Feedmarking -> Nodemarking

Most people think of del.icio.us as a service for Social Bookmarking but Danny Ayers showed how it could be used for Feedmarking. We shouldn't miss the significance of this. A Feed is afterall a collection of permalinks so feedmarking can be thought of as meta-bookmarking.

The next logical step is meta-feedmarking or Nodemarking. Two kinds of nodes are already gaining some traction - Reading Lists and Grazing Lists - so it'll be very interesting to see what kind of 'evanescent, biotic OPML trees' we can build when we start marking and sharing nodes on a massive scale.

To illustrate, let's take a look at the following diagram -



Yes, I'm still a bit fuzzy about some bits but my point is that del.icio.us can evolve into something much more profound than a Social Bookmarking service. It can become a way for us to share Bundles of informatin flows (Beeds?) which it could easily present in a contextual, hierarchical, grazeable fashion.

Dimensionality is just another way of understading the way we access the 'marked data. RSS feeds are linear in the sense that we access feed items one by one as they arrive in our aggregators. Reading Lists are 2D because we can jump between feeds and OPML trees are 3D because we can jump between various levels of the hierarchy.

Del.icio.us allows to to filter by tag with the URL format -

del.icio.us/tag/tagname

And to get an RSS feed for that tag you merely instert an 'rss' in the URL -

del.icio.us/rss/tag/tagname

This is fine when we're bookmarking. But when we're Feedmarking I would like Del.icio.us to offer a syntax for access the Reading List (OPML node). Something like -

del.icio.us/opml/tag/tagname

Similarly, we should have a syntax to access the results of Nodemarking, probably the same. I can't wait to see what's happening a year after del.icio.us has provided these facilities and we're nodesharing on a massive scale.


Technorati Tags: opml, feedmarking, nodemarking

Comments

[kosso]

This is veeeery interesting and timely too ;)

Just been listening to the podcast you did with Alex, Danny etc.. very good - so good I was shouting 'treedia!!' at the speakers! :)

drop me a line and I'll send you a demo login to the testbed for the system I am using - it's graaaazing!! ;)

In fact - that list above - it's all those ;)

Cheers!
Kosso