Superfeed To Tumblog

I created a Tumblr blog yesterday.

http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/

Unexpectedly, it closes a loop for me. In January of this year, I built a mashup for a company to use at Lotusphere07, IBM’s annual Lotus event.

When we concepted it, we talked about how people on a team in a company could filter information that was meaningful to them before adding it to a feed framework, which is what my client’s product was all about.

I said, let’s have these hypothetical team members filter their best stuff through a Tumblog, then add it to the feed framework. It’s a great way to put quality information into the system. You could even have a “feed mixer,” some kind of information analyst, take the best information from each Tumblog.

What we ended up doing was building a little Rails app to tap a couple of APIs (like Technorati). In the first leg of the mashup, people could search for information and then mix items into a “superfeed.”

The superfeed then went into the feed framework where items could be routed to various devices. So, pretty good solution (our mashup was a finalist in the judging), but the Tumblog would have been the way to go.

Now I’m sure of it.