Hooze

24-Jul-2006
At OSCamp this morning, I spent some time with Ethan McCutchen and Lewis Hoffman learning more about the Hooze.com and wagging. Hooze is focused on s and in particular, helping them create a shared and voice which may point in a directions that are more aligned with their consumers. Imagine having access to a huge collaboratively built database of consumer experience right at the point of purchase — that would be valuable.

The underlying technology is a wiki of sorts, but because it leverages tagging and 'cards', they call it 'wagging' (wiki+tagging). Cute. Not to mention that it has the 'tail wagging the dog' feeling which sends a good grass roots message. In the wagging environment, each tag you create has a snippet of information attached to it, like a card or a page. But the power is created when you combine tags. So if there was a tag for 'Ray King' and a tag for 'Razr', then I would naturally put my experience with Razr's on that page. Once there is a of this information, then looking up any topic brings up a rich subset of other related topics. I look forward to watching this get off the ground. There's more information on wagging at their system site, .

Via our weblog at RecentChanges.info.

Hooze description
Although it is beta, so may not be open to the public yet. A wiki that combinds tagging with itself!
 *  I really like their treatment of names: To get started, you'll need to choose a 'Name Tag' which will be used to identify you and your contributions to the site. In the spirit of transparency, we ask that you use your, eg. Millard Fillmore.  In the spirit of uniqueness, you are also welcomed to insert a nickname in the middle of your Name Tag, eg Robert 'Yellow Wood' Frost.
 *  Wagging the merging of Wiki and Tagging

Cards
Hooze.org organizes all its information into cards. All over the site you will see boxes with blue headers that open and close; they're all cards. Cards are very simple; they have a unique name, a type (eg. , Metric, Image, User, etc), and some content.

You can learn more about the concept of organizing with cards at Wagn.org.

Company
Hooze's primary focus is gathering information about companies. We define companies as legal entities that carry on industrial enterprise. In other words:  organizations.

Hoozer
Hooze members, or 'Hoozers', are people who not only seek answers but also seek to share them.

Metric
Metrics are how we organize company details that we've researched on Hooze.org.

To add a detail card to a company using one of the metrics below go to the company's card.

Request
A request could be a question about Hooze, or something you'd like to see done on Hooze. A request, like everything else on Hooze, is a card, and as different Hoozers attend to a request, they will continue to take note of it here.

Stream
A stream is a flow of information about multiple companies.

(Each stream comes from a source - one source may have one or more streams.)