[topicmapmail] Fuzzzy - Social Topic Mapping

[Benjamin Bock]

Hi Roy, hi list,

That's a nice app, looks promising! :)

Unfortunately I was stuck with one of the first thing I tried:
I created the topic Friendship and i wanted to connect (I intentionally 
don't use "associate") it to the friends-connection between the users 
but I don't see any possibility, yet.

It would be nice if you could create a TM ontology for the information
which is used in fuzzzy itself: users, friends, maybe more specific: 
user profiles, images, country, etc. This could be done manually by 
adding topics and bookmarks to the pages 
(http://www.fuzzzy.com/user/?country=74 or
http://www.fuzzzy.com/user/?id=23, but I'd prefer automatically 
generated and updated with the above URLs as occurences, or, going 
further, as subject indicators. Compared to the amount of manual work, 
it should hopefully be only a few lines of code to create and update 
these Topics automatically, which would be great.
Additionally, and not only for that, a more REST-ful URL-schema would be 
nice, e.g. using /user/23 and /country/74 with /user (and /country) 
being the topic types, imho.

I have some more thoughts on creating views (and later editable views, 
too) for existing data, especially social bookmarking/networking/... 
platforms. For that, clean REST interfaces are a great help because they 
enable to do it mostly automatically. But this concept and the 
corresponding library/application needs some more work before being 
published. When it is working, it should be a no-brainer to import 
(snapshot), view (live), or synchronize e.g. my del.icio.us Bookmarks 
with a TM enabled application, e.g. fuzzzy.
More complicated views are also in the works but I don't plan updating 
support, yet. With complicated I think of not standardized (Web-)UI, 
e.g. StudiVZ.net which doesn't publish an API like Facebook. But... more 
on all that later.

Regards,
Benjamin Bock