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15 Nov 2006
Stikkit
A service that got some coverage the last weeks was Stikkit. I will not attempt to describe this service, just have a llok at the description on Daring Fireball.
Let me have a MicroContent look. I take the viewpoint that MicroContent is very similar to a database record. That means that any structure or semantics is created explicitly. Anything with a special meaning is put in a separate field. I guess that normally people are not that structured. Although have a look at an address book on paper or book with recipes.
And this point Stikkit thinks that it can play a role. In a piece of proza it will detect names of people, URL's, tags and dates. And this allows the service to offer searching those concepts. I think this is a great way to go and more concepts should follow.
You can imagine such a semantic text to be a mashing layer. Each concept could point to the appropriate MicroContent Item. Clicking on a person would show me the address card in my AddressCard application, Clicking on a tag would show me the tag cloud from that point and the associated bookmarks, cicking on a date would show the event in my Agenda, etc. One might see this as a form of automatic mashing.