Fuses are the next generation information spaces .
what is httpfuse.com?
A Fuse allows groups of people to build important bookmarks on the topic of their interest. These bookmarks are maintained across different areas of the topic which form sections of the fuse.
HttpFuse contains a collection of such fuses on a wide variety of topics.
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A fuse contains a collection of bookmarks/links on a particular topic; unlike personal bookmarking services it is built up by a community of people rather than an individual.
Sample fuses on various topics:
Global Warming,
MySQL,
iphone,
AIDS,
Gmail,
Adobe photoshop,
Mahatma Gandhi
Other definitions of Fuse
- Fuse is all about group (i.e.
groups of people) collaboration of bookmarks on a topic to bring out
important and interesting bookmarks (i.e links) across different areas
of the topic.
- In Wikipedia
for every topic, users will collaborate to bring
out the best content related to the topic. Where as in httpfuse
for every topic users will collaborate on bookmarks (or links) to bring
out important and interesting bookmarks related to the topic. Such a
collection of bookmarks on a topic is called Fuse.
- Fuse allows community to build
interesting bookmarks on the topic of their interest.
How fuse is helpful to me?
As bookmarks discovered by each one on the topic are stored at one place. Fuse helps each other in discovering important bookmarks across different areas of the topic.
Interesting applications of fuse
Fuse and web2.0 help of a product
If such fuses are built on a product. Quality resources (i.e. links) across the web for the product are being aggregated at a single place with the help of the community. Such a fuse built on a product (i.e. product fuse)
where important resources are born from the consumer rather than the owner is called WEB2.0 help of the product.
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Such product Fuses built on open source products are of great help to the users.
Sample product fuses (Web 2.0 help on various products)
iphone,
Gmail,
Yahoo Pipes,
Adobe photoshop
Fuse as an Utility
Group of people working on a common task or project can build their own fuse to store important bookmarks that their team has discovered. Such a fuse will help everyone to discover important bookmarks across different areas of the project.
How the HttpFuse is different from social bookmarking sites ?
Social bookmarking sites is all about personal bookmarks. Its main focus is the bookmarks of a person and the discovery of related bookmarks from other users who has saved the same bookmark.
But in the Fuse, main focus is to build important bookmarks on a topic from a community who are interested in that topic.
You may argue that i will search in Social bookmarking site the important bookmarks related to a topic. But those bookmarks are not comprehensive, with respect to the topic.
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