“You can use the Dude to store cool links that you find. Once you store something, you can send it to others, both inside and outside the Dude universe….
Your collection of cool links is anonymously related to other link collections in the Dude database, and the Dude then suggests other links to you. It’s sort of like the Amazon suggestion engine for books based on “people who bought this book also bought…”, but for links instead. Cool, eh?….
Item suggestions are connected to a profile, so as you discover new information, you’ll also connect with new people. It’s social networking with a purpose: You connect with others because you share interests.”
I continue to believe, until someone convincingly argues otherwise, that RSS-cum-Feedsharing-cum-personal newsreading will ultimately take off when a great recommendation engine is grafted onto a great feed aggregator, then married to some third cousin of social networking. Amazon+Feedster+NetNewsWireLite+Friendster. Or something. The Dude points in that direction.