Oops. I wasn’t expecting much traffic, so I neglected to write an about page. My bad. So here’s a little background.
Opsop started because I wanted to make it easy to find stuff. I wanted some place where I can post about anything and be able to find it later. Bookmark my piece of the world. Restaurants I like, books I want to read, blogs I dig. And I wanted to find out what other people have to say, what they like, what they recommend.
There’s so much interesting stuff that gets buried in the Web. With search sites, the more results they return, the less relevant they become.
I don’t want 2 million results, when most are just trying to sell me stuff. It’s not interesting anymore. I want to find out what other people have to say. Do you like this restaurants? Is this a product you would buy? Got an interesting story to tell?
So I decided to go the opposite route, away from searchbots and massive databases. Make it all about people. Let you post what’s interesting to you, make the important stuff easy to find. Opsop lets you say it in your own words, put links, include images. You can be very detailed, or you can just post a link … wrote about it on your blog? then link to it!
There are no categories, no “this goes here”. To make stuff easy to find, you just tag it. And you decide which tags are relevant. Eating? For-sale? iPod? You can also tag things with a date (like this: 7/22/2005) and address (like this: “@619 taylor st san francisco ca”), so you can find what’s happening where you are, on any given day.
Anyway, it’s up and running, you can try it out yourself.