Seems that Combing Blogs into Networks (aggregate)

and then Adding SOCIAL Patterns could work really well

+ onDemand vistors, commenters etc.

clipped from developer.yahoo.com The Competitive Spectrum The designer needs to match the reputation system to the community’s degree of competitiveness. Identifying Labels Community members need to identify distinguished members of the community. Leaderboard In highly competitive communities, users may want to know who are the very best performers in a category or overall.. Points In some communities, participants want a tangible measurement of their accomplishments. Ranking In highly competitive communities, users may want to compare their performance against that of their peers. Reputation The user expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others.

Clipping the Web – 1st Part of DIY Mashups

So Clipmarks gets it right with their fantastic tool for clipping what I’m assuming is CSS/xPath based DOM.

Then we have tools for Adding it to a blog, SocialNet, Bookmarking sites.

No way to REMIX this though.. add new styling options (css), Markup tools ..

Too bad you can’t PLUG into Clipmarks.

clipped from clipmarks.com Enter your blog information for Clip-to-Blog™ Blogging about interesting things you find on the web has never been this easy, fun or spontaneous. Set up auto-bookmarking to del.icio.us or ma.gnolia Enter your del.icio.us or ma.gnolia account information so you can clip and bookmark at the same time.

Proper Defination of Social Sites

Excellent list of attributes

• Identity – a way of uniquely identifying people in the system
• Presence – a way of knowing who is online, available or otherwise nearby
• Relationships – a way of describing how two users in the system are related (e.g. in Flickr, people can be contacts, friends of family)
• Conversations – a way of talking to other people through the system
• Groups – a way of forming communities of interest
• Reputation – a way of knowing the status of other people in the system (who’s a good citizen? who can be trusted?)
• Sharing – a way of sharing things that are meaningful to participants (like photos or videos)

From http://nform.ca/publications/social-software-building-block