Daily Movement

Distributed Reviews

I propose a technorati-like service:

content stays on users personal site
extra, minor markup to make it easily indexable
centralized search system w/ various ego ranking mechanisms to encourage participation

Want to keep review content on user’s own site. Let user retain ownership of their content and be able to monetize their own content rather than post to a review site and give up copyright ownership.
Want to apply this to restaurant reviews, gas prices, product reviews, “micro review” content in general where you have maybe a paragraph of data which may not index well in a page ranked search engine.

some “tags” need to be exact identifiers, such as business address/name (e.g. lalime), product name (e.g gasoline, ipod nano), location (e.g. san francisco bay area).
Problem: How can we converge on a correct identifier tag in its various spellings and possible abbreviations? How would a group feedback mechanism work? 43things goals have a feedback mechanism where users recommend one goal (effectively a complex tag) is similar or same as another, presented when a goal is seen.
aggregation within the identifier tag, such as averaging of rating, distribution of prices, counting of # of entries (already done)
schema built by group concensus (e.g. product name is important, price is important to many users, color, material, atmosphere, type of food)
optional inclusion of targeted aggregated content (e.g. “also reviewed by” for a restaurant review, “group opinion” of a business, lowest price) alongside user’s content
Implementation
reviews are tagged, price information (such as lowest gas prices) are tagged
for sophisticated users, local databaes info should be served up in crawlable form appearing as individual entries w/ tags.

Unlike flickr and other photosharing sites, want to keep image content on owners site.

tag method could be applied for images too, like flickr.
searched images could be returned in gallery format with thumbnails and actual images pointing to gallery on users site rather than being stored at aggregation site.
Browse by user, or by tag, or by user+tag.
User could link in other people’s photos into their own galleries(?), ie. “here’s my trip to Versailles and here’s some other people’s view of the Versailles palace.”