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Capturing Traffic Once and Making That Traffic Available to Multiple Tools

I’ve been struggling with a problem for a while now. The problem is how to
properly display on my site everything online that I create vs.
everything online that I find and enjoy. The issue is that these two
types of content need to be differentiated to provide maximum value to
readers.

So here are my requirements.

  1. I want to be able to instantly send any content that I’m viewing,
    regardless of medium, to my website as a link. So if I’m reading an
    essay/article or watching a video clip, I want to hit a single button
    and have it highlighted on my site’s sidebar under
    Discovered Content.

  2. And I want the same capability for any content I create myself, but that
    would happen automatically as I posted it. So if I post an essay on my
    blog, or I send some images to Flickr, Tweet something, or I write a
    comment on Reddit, I want a link to that content in my site’s sidebar as
    well, but this time under
    Created Content.

I think the best distinction you can make regarding content is whether you
made it yourself, or whether you’re simply passing it along as part of your
input stream. Created vs. Discovered. Output vs. Input.

So here’s what I’m proposing: a service that separately collects
together everything you create vs. everything you
discover online, and then builds an aggregate syndication feed for
each, and then gives you a simple javascript block that you can drop into
your site to display each.

So it’ll:

  • Collect your content (both created and discovered)

  • Aggregate each into two distinct feeds (think Yahoo! Pipes)

  • Give you a javascript snippet that you can use to embed it in your
    site/blog

Here’s a simple mock-up of the architecture as I see it:

This is very rough right now, but if I still think this is a good idea in
like a week I’m going to contact some people at my favorite services, e.g.
Google, FriendFeed, to see if they’d be interested in implementing it.

Any thoughts? Does this sound like something people would be interested in?

Gerald Businge

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