Map and share your links from the Internet

« The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is attachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation.( ...)The map has to do with performance, whereas the tracing always involves an alleged competence.»
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, rhizome ( Thousand Plateaux). 
Polyphonies: the bazaar rather than a cathedral, the babbling voices rather than a symphony

Data circulating on Internet are multiple contents, they create a mosaic of liquid and diversified informations, moving constantly; a polyphony, a bazaar, a diversity. They are constitutive of a collective memory of the Web and contribute to its wealth, and are part of an historiography.
These data are mostly stored in the history logs of our web browsers, in the links we create, in the bookmarks we keep. Some of these data are part of what we target as the deep web. the hidden territories of the Web, the links that are not ranked in the main web search engines.
buzzaar is meant to contribute to the development of Internet at the service of its users and and to counterbalance the influence of the ranking of Web sites, controlled by the main search engines. Its main purpose is to give back informations created by Internet users and make them public, displayed in interactive cartographies which can be re combined and freely shared. So you can share your links with your peers, create your own personal cartographies of links, skinning them, taging your links based on criteria such as of popularity and proximity of interests,you can go back in time and compare your results from days, weeks, months ago, send these maps to your friends, create interactive images... as much as new and personal topographies of your own Internet.
buzzaar is a non profit cooperative project, based on a peer to peer network architecture. It is developed by the netartists of meetopia *team extended* associated with the developers of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of EPFL and their partners from UniNE and ISTI. It is supported by the Swiss Office federal of culture, sitemapping project, EPFL and Hasler Foundation.

meetopia team extended consists of:

EPFL Martin Rajman; Le Bao Anh; Tran Huu Duc

UniNE Pascal Felber; Etienne Rivière; Lorenzo Leonini

ISTI Patrizio Dazzi; Matteo Mordacchin

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buzzaar concept 12 | 2009