e-Literate

The guy who created BooksWeLike is now apparently working on a general embeddable system for distributed categorization that does the following:

1. Let you publish citations to books, urls, photographs and other digital ephemera.
2. Categorize your observations using tags
3. Pivot on tags and observations to find more like tags, observations and people.
4. The application should be embeddable; running on personal systems not just LAMP / UNIX .
5. Small
6. Fast
7. Clean understandable source
8. Standards based
9. A foundation for future projects
10. Strong social discovery aspects
11. Recommendation
12. Tag clustering using LSI techniques (or any technique that comes to mind) [Note from Michael: LSI is apparently a text categorization algorithm that looks vaguely like Bayesian filtering to my highly untrained eye.]
13. Perhaps even a general purpose content management system.
14. Run on Java 1.2 or any ‘older language’ – don’t require bleeding edge (to improve embedability and portability).

(Found via heyblog, which appears to be temporarily down as of this writing.)