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IBM CASCON 2006: Social discovery and conferences

Posted on July 27th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

Another thing I want to build for IBM CASCON 2006 is an easy way to create an OPML file for conference registrants and session attendees. Imagine if you could associate your registration with a blog URL and then be able to:

• import an OPML file of all the conference registrants so far
• read an aggregation of all the conference registrants
• do the same for all the people who have registered for a particular session

Certainly, speakers with blogs should have them all listed. Tomorrow I'll ask for permission to get in touch with all of the speakers and ask them for blog URLs. We'll put together a page, export some OPML, throw up an aggregator (maybe even just a public Bloglines), and boom! Happy happy happy.

Even more advanced stuff: imagine a small-scale tech.memeorandum running against the speakers, the conference registrants, or session attendees... Imagine doing that with bookmarks, too! Maybe I can convince Pranam Kolari to do something like that.

In the future, people might even want to associate multiple blog URLs with their profile. For example, if they write topic-focused blogs, they might want their business blog to be aggregated with all the other blogs for a marketing session, while their technical blog might be better for the programming sessions. I don't think we're quite at this point yet, but it should be easy enough to build.

Sounds like a terrific tool. I have one month to build this and all the other nifty things I want to make for IBM CASCON 2006! I wonder if my developer sponsor and my research supervisor mind if I do this...

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