Somewhere between the realm of Personal and Shared media lies the realm of the Universal.
The realm of the universal is something that I call the Library of the Commons, a global repository of user-generated and crowd-sourced media and information.
Services that logically nest in the Library include: Amazon Reviews, Yelp, YouTube, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Flickr, Tweets.
This post not only provides a framework for understanding the Library of the Commons, but suggests a federated listing model that I call the Infodex - a kind of next generation Rolodex - for housing, organizing and sharing such listings.
Read the full post HERE.
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