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March 1
fred-wilson wrote: I really enjoy watching the reblog activity on tumblr. Bijan posted a photo of the Stones from 1964, I reblogged it below, browneyes picked it up from me, and then twink picked it up from browneyes. Tracing the movement of content around the web like this should be possible, but I haven’t seen it done across the web at large. Someone should make that happen. Fred would really enjoy the R&D work, I think, of my friend Jonah Peretti — whom I’m sure he knows from Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post, two sites he co-founded.  Eyebeam’s reBlog software, which Jonah created with Mike Frumin and Stamen Design, was a direct inspiration for the reblog feature in Tumblr (David and I used to talk about it a lot — I had installed it in my Movable Type-powered version of this blog, before Tumblr was launched). The Eyebeam R&D team also developed a tool called forwardTrack, which attempted to follow the spread of ideas via email and blogs, and which was used to power and track the spread of a number of political campaigns (I used it with PFAW to power several of their advocacy campaigns in ‘05-‘06).  One of the reasons this works so beautifully on Tumblr (besides Davidville’s brilliance at simple and elegant design) is the shared database powering all of our posts. But it’s harder to track trends on the web by analyzing the content alone.  Technorati was one attempt; Buzzfeed is another.  Ultimately it may take some sort of standard — a plug-in or shared API like OpenID or TrackBacks — for us to really track reblogging from platform to platform as ideas mutate like people playing telephone.  Knowing how many smart people read Fred’s blog, I wonder if there isn’t a startup in the works already.  

fred-wilson wrote:

I really enjoy watching the reblog activity on tumblr. Bijan posted a photo of the Stones from 1964, I reblogged it below, browneyes picked it up from me, and then twink picked it up from browneyes. Tracing the movement of content around the web like this should be possible, but I haven’t seen it done across the web at large. Someone should make that happen.

Fred would really enjoy the R&D work, I think, of my friend Jonah Peretti — whom I’m sure he knows from Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post, two sites he co-founded.  Eyebeam’s reBlog software, which Jonah created with Mike Frumin and Stamen Design, was a direct inspiration for the reblog feature in Tumblr (David and I used to talk about it a lot — I had installed it in my Movable Type-powered version of this blog, before Tumblr was launched). The Eyebeam R&D team also developed a tool called forwardTrack, which attempted to follow the spread of ideas via email and blogs, and which was used to power and track the spread of a number of political campaigns (I used it with PFAW to power several of their advocacy campaigns in ‘05-‘06). 

One of the reasons this works so beautifully on Tumblr (besides Davidville’s brilliance at simple and elegant design) is the shared database powering all of our posts. But it’s harder to track trends on the web by analyzing the content alone.  Technorati was one attempt; Buzzfeed is another.  Ultimately it may take some sort of standard — a plug-in or shared API like OpenID or TrackBacks — for us to really track reblogging from platform to platform as ideas mutate like people playing telephone.  Knowing how many smart people read Fred’s blog, I wonder if there isn’t a startup in the works already.