Amoeba is, sometimes more, sometimes less, related to a number of other projects in the web that are dealing with the attempthttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif of creating information about information in a semantical way.
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RDF (the idea of metadata)
* Tim Burner Lee's "
Semantic Web" (metadata)
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Digg (rating/digging of text articles)
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Slashdot (moderation)
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Stumble Upon (rating/tagging of websites)
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Flickr.com (tagging)
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Del.icio.us (tagging)
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Technorati (tagging)