Both 43things and flickr are new age applications which have really been making me think lately.
Both 43things and flickr are new age applications which have really been making me think lately.
I got into the beta test of 43things the day it came out, and Ive loved the idea of the app ever since. I’m trying right now to trudge through learning rails and building my own app with a lot of similar ideas – socially aware goal driven software – and I think this new sort of thing is really exciting. Another incarnation of 43things is due out soon.
There are seven thousand some users registered and maintaining goals right now on 43things, and it’s still a fairly new service. People all have their own things, and as those things get tagged with keywords they start to relate to other peoples things within the pool of all 30,000 plus things in the system now.
I always though it would be really great if 43things could become more of a social networking site – if it could get you in touch with others doing the same sorts of things you are doing, or who have done them to help you out with accomplishing your goals. Create a mentoring system of sorts, a global tutoring application. It looks like these ideas are going to come out more and more as 43things develops, which is great.
But what is exciting to me is that if you could take a 43things-like framework and focus it on one thing, say, learning to swim or something, and then get a number of people who wanted to better their swimming abilities to come and participate in the community sharing their experiences within some sort of framework, they could all help each other become better swimmers.
First you could structure the app so that just by using it they could improve their swimming abilities – or at least monitor their times, how often they get out swimming. They could compare how they are doing with others, have an audioscrobbler like list of people who are the most similar to you in their swimming ability and goals, and this could very much streamline { learning to / improving your } swimming.
Cool.
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