Playing with Frassle, an Interpersonal Content Management system, is like crawling a giant boat in the mist. It looks interesting, and there is all kinds of cool machinery visible, but even after poking around it for a few hours and reading the developers' presentation and fans' notes, it isn't clear to me exactly what is, or what it is good for, in comparison with all the other portals / rss aggregators / CMS / social networks. On the other hand, that's what some people say about all babies, right? What are they good for? Potential.
Frassle was recently presented at Berkman, where the following hilarious exchange was recorded:
MF: Is Frassle just a giant echo chamber?
SR: that's a concern
Like Flickr, Simpy, Del.icio.us, Anselm Hook's new project, and Thingster, Frassle has user created tags as the organizing principle and pivot.
Tags seem to be the in thing these days, and I'd bet they will be one of the themes of next year's ETech, just as wikis, blogs and social networking software were the theme of the 2004 ETech. I wonder how many tag based information and media organizing tools this space can hold, and when they will evolve their own standard for talking taxonomy to each other?
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