Another cool link and review from Marc - Ross Mayfield with SocialText is doing a good job in raising the bar on developments in social software.  Its really one of the neatest wikis i've seen - well categorised, easy to navigate and bringing blogging tools into a wiki.  There are also some 'faces' in the people's category !

Secrets of SocialText's new product - revealed!.

Coolio - so now we can finally see what Pete Kaminski has been working on.  He and Ross (of SocialText) have been talking about combining a Wiki and a blog - and now I know what they mean by that.  Take a look at the SuperNova Wiki.

They've added the concept of 'categories' to Wiki's - which can encapsulate concepts like PEOPLE, Bofs, any sort of 'special section - into a special kind of Wiki page.  They then take that 'category' and turn it into a series of blog entires..... delineated by each category linefeed.  The PEOPLE section is a blog, the Bofs page is a blog, etc.

So the Socialtext Wiki IS a blogging tool now. HHhhhmmmm...... I sure hope they support FOAF.  And ThreadsML.    [Marc's Voice]

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Marc Canter talks about faces :

"Face time.... not sure how I missed this - but Clay's last post - points to a wondeful post by Liz Lawley on faces one of my favorite subjects!" Marc goes on to say : "I'm totally in love with the idea that one's face is their moniker - it's their social greeting card.  The computer graphics folks know that rendering a human face - is by far the most complex task to  accomplish. Combine this with the ability for an RSS channel to have one's face and new kinds of aggregators could rely upon the face for a cool visual display.  Faces are also key in cross-between language barriers, expressing emotion and as a search metaphor. Now take FOAF, faces and some sort of People's DNS (OpenIdentity standard) and we're starting to ROCK!" [Marc Canter]

Particularly interesting when you talk about a shrinking globe, and networking with people thousands of miles away.  I have found myself wondering what a person i've been connecting with through my blog really looks like - its a 'touchy-feely' thing really - difficult to express - yet once i can put a face to the words i read, they somehow seem so much more human and real, and easier to make a connection with.  Moreover, it moves me away from 'judging' into the area of sensing and perceiving.  If i don't find a picture on a blog - i turn to Ryze - and more often than not - i find one there.  I like Marc's blog for this reason - and am quite happy to deal with my news feeds slowing down due to his large picture files !  And Ton has a neat faceroll at his blog.

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