David Sifry (http :\/\/twitter.com\/davidsifry) took a mere 48 hours to
create a Web2.0 app that truly demonstrates — and puts into action —
the power of social networks.<\/p>\n
His new tool is called 'hoosgot' (http:\/\/hoosgot.com<\/a> and The word 'hoosgot' is a phonetic spelling for the phrase, 'Who's got…?'<\/p>\n As in, 'Hoosgot a Kindle they don't really want, and can send it to Or, 'Hoosgot any idea how to upgrade a blogger.com template to the new Or maybe even, 'Hoosgot a way to get George Bush impeached before the If your blog pings Technorati.com, just using the word 'hoosgot' will In order to access your answers, you do one of two things:<\/p>\n 1. Go to the hoosgot.com site, and check the comments section of your 2. Follow the RSS feed for the comments in your blog aggregator (I One thing Sifry mentions is that this system will only work if you I'm posting this as an email to go@blogger.com from gmail on my
http:\/\/twitter.com\/hoosgot<\/a>). And it's a way for anyone to get stuff
they're looking for. And 'stuff' could be information or things.<\/p>\n
Roy in South Africa?'<\/p>\n
widgets version without losing all your old formatting?'<\/p>\n
Third World War he's started spreads all over the world?'<\/p>\n
get the post parsed by Sifry's innovation, and open your question up
to a huge community of people who might be able to answer it.<\/p>\n
query for responses.<\/p>\n
used to use the free Bloglines.com. Now I use the free Google Reader.)<\/p>\n
work it (some twelve step resonances there, I suspect). He means that
it's a community tool, which works through reciprocation. In other
words, don't only post questions. Sometimes, post some answers too.
It's a give and take situation.<\/p>\n
cellphone. So I'm not sure how links are treated. Hopefully they'll be
live. If they're not, you'll need to copy them into your browser. And
I'll rectify that when I'm online from my computer.<\/p>\n