A cheesy social network :-) ?

When I was at the Europe office a few weeks ago, they showed me some interesting software they were developing, that enabled you to rate, review and comment on assets. John Sturino stopped by our offices last Friday and showed me an update to the toolkit. They now have an early beta of this here : http://gratr.uk.office.aol.com:8080/

This is a social network around cheese. They chose the subject to test the concept of ratings/reviews, not to actually get serious about Cheese. Actually, I think they should release it, since it may get all sorts of cheese lovers. Couple it with wine, and it could be a major hit ;-)

Check it out... They are trying to make a "toolkit" for the ratings/reviews, one which can be used to rate and review content (such as a music video or a news article on Boy George picking up trash from the streets of New York). The idea is the toolkit can be used simply on any page -- product based or content based.

http://gratr.uk.office.aol.com:8080/

Caveat : It's an early beta, it's on a developers machine in London, so it may be slow. Hopefully you will get the general concept.

Comments

Anonymous said…

There is a Dulles team working on something very very similar under Mark Donner and Yan Cheng. AOL definitely needs something like this in all of our properties, but probably does not need two versions : )

Donner and Co. are reaching out to the people that built this to sync up.

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