Yesterday I left things off wondering if there were ways, other than geography, that you’d want to organize the photos/text/etc.

I had dinner with Patrick tonight and we talked about the project. From this discussion came the idea that this site, the geographic organization of media, might be integrated with a social network like Friendster. You could see the world that your friends portray, or you could expand your search outward and see what others have submitted. When combined with a blog, we end up with a “people’s history” of the world, with both chronological and geographic indices. Think of this over 50 years, 100 years, and so on. Why not, right? The information could be stored at a central server or even on a network like FreeNet. Yes, it would be many terabytes in no time, but I think storage technology is moving as quickly as we can fill it up, if not faster, so that’s OK.

There are some money-making possibilities here, too. The code could be licensed. The photos could be sent off the ofoto for prints. Etc…