SocialRouting
== Social Routing for listings and classifieds ==

The traditional method of dealing with classifieds is to have as large as possible list of them and then filter it on the preferences of the user.  In particular with the emergence of SocialSoftware the users can filter the messages based on the proximity of the poster in the SocialNetwork.  This is a good approach - but it does not fit in our P2P paradigm, it requires that there is a central repository of the advertisements. Fortunately since we want to anyway filter the messages by the SocialNetwork we can reach the same goal by doing the reverse thing - routing the messages via the SocialNetwork. 

== SocialRouting for Content Rating ==

By such a intimate connection with trust SocialRouting might be and ideal protocol for disseminating ratings.  This would lead to a system simmilar to the Slasdot Zoo system but distributed.
Some interesting coversations are taking place about reputation systems at http://www.everythinginmoderation.org

== SocialRouting for File Sharing ==

There is an interesting project started in the [http://matadorp2p.tribe.net Matador] group on tribe.net.  The goal of this project is a  P2P file sharing application with some Social layer to improve the quality of shared files.  P2P SocialNetworking is the exact environement where SocialRouting can be applied.