The next two weeks will help with specifics. The utility of social semantic tags and leveraging those tags to bring the browser serendipity with hints has many small details that I learn about by talking to folks, and I code whenever I get a free moment.

The piece I'm working on now is a very small fragment of a bigger web living service. One problem was the interface, the cloud is getting replaced, another was lists but we made lots of progress there (optimization,how much info to grab and parse while being realish time), finally there are many variations to visualizing connections to other people and trending information in an interest area. This is related to filtering out noise (one mistake was trying to scan the entire real time stream to hares topic interests, lists allow narowing that stream intelligently). The implicit tags need to be connected with explicit user filters to enable the right slice of social/info sharing.

Gotta run, will read over your comments more carefully after some tech catchup.

Says the guy who just left a ~300 word comment.

A thought for you, without understanding the full scope of the monster project you and Tyler Durden are working on: why not pick the most compelling feature of it and launch it, quickly, as a stand alone product? Or, if that's not possible, why not launch a more narrowly-focused version of it for a particular niche — and find someone to pay for it? If you haven't seen it before, check David Hansson's presentation where he mentions his target market — “the Fortune 1,000,000″.

I know you mentioned in a comment on Fred's blog Friday that you were looking for funding. I get the sense you'd be happier owning a profitable business that you could grow organically than relying on VC money, particularly if they are looking to invest in uber-arrogant types as Fred's post suggested. You can still get big growing organically, if you can find businesses willing to buy your product or service.

Another thought: is your approach to blogging similar to your approach to building this thing of yours? I ask because you tend to write long posts, longer than someone with my short attention span often has the patience to read in full (I am guilty of doing this also sometimes). You write well, and often present interesting ideas, but sometimes it's as if you are attempting to beat the reader into submission with copious examples and elaborations. Just a thought. I've noticed that some of the most widely-read bloggers tend to be pithier than knuckleheads like me and you who seem to put more work into our posts sometimes.