Brainstorm!

[maradydd]

Prompted by a discussion with bunnykitteh, who's good at prompting these kinds of things:

Imagine a Facebook and/or MySpace application aimed at organising flash mobs for political action (e.g., the kind of thing Anonymous might use to quickly notify members of imminent $cientology activity in a particular location). What features should it have? (Twitter gateway?)

(Note that with Facebook, especially, there are all kinds of interesting concerns with respect to privacy...)

Comments

[mycroftxxx.livejournal.com]

Uhm, an auto-archival function would be nice. Something that followed all of the participant twitter/Qix/whatever streams during the event and auto-collated it all into a timeline-based "What just happened" page. Assuming a group organizer/moderator, it would also be a good spot to submit links from later blog postings.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Good call. Could be done on the fly using AJAX events pretty trivially, to boot.

And each event could be assigned a unique name to use in tagging, so that folks who register their blog with the app get posts tagged with that tag auto-syndicated (perhaps pending mod approval).