Encyclopedia of open source

That’s perhaps a bit grandiose as this needs a bit more time to develop, but Swik is a pretty slick wiki devoted to open source projects that mixes in tagging and blogging to bring an added level of community involvement and oh, we’ll call it serendipity, to the process. What I mean by that is best illustrated by way of example – if you went and typed in WordPress, the weblog system I recently switched to, you’ll get a brief introduction to what wordpress is and on the right you’ll get a list of related projects and terms. One of those terms is weblog, and clicking that will take you to a whole list of weblog-related topics. For those of you familiar with del.icio.us or other web apps using tagging this is nothing revelatory, the difference with Swik is the focus solely on open source projects. If you’re ever trying to track down info on a project, or see me mention something here and wonder what the heck it is, the chances are fair to good that Swik will actually be more useful to you than a google search.

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