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title: Social Data Mining
categories:
- work
content-tags:
- technology
- software
- web
- aside
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[Swivel][1], [previewed on TechCrunch][2], looks to be the coolest new web service idea since [Mechanical Turk][3].  This is one of those rare ideas that illicit a reaction not of "oh, neat" but rather "if I was half as smart as I like to think, I would've thought of that."

   [1]: http://www.swivel.com/
   [2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/05/swivel-to-launch-this-week-communitize-your-data/
   [3]: /2006/08/25/meat-based-web-services.html
