Hanzo:Web -- An interesting social bookmarking tool

When I asked Brewster Kahle about the potential for integrating social bookmarking into the Internet Archive, I envisioned a service that would provide a social, human element to the archive.  One that took snapshots of sites as users found them of interest ... one that would provide an archive of content that was closer to the cultural experience that caught that person's interest.  Well, in the last session that I attended at ETECH, I sat through a presentation from the folks at Hanzo:Web ... a service that very closely resembles what I was thinking about.  It has a very nice interface (and the new version will be even better).  If I remember correctly, Clay Shirky suggested that services like these provided a mechanism for tapping into the demand-side economics of user attention.  A interesting take.

I wondered about the potential for archiving the actual web page that the user was viewing ... rather than the source from a robot that didn't included a user's unique experience and view of content ... an archive that displayed a rendered web page complete with all the greasemonkey mods and personalized view of content that wouldn't be available from a robot's view of content.  In other words, take the content rendered on the screen and archive it.  We're not there yet, but I think it will be interesting to see what happens when/if we do get there.

I also wonder about the potential role of services like the Coral CDN and wonder if a derivative of something like this might be interesting in a library and/or academic circle for both archiving and performance.