different filtering solutions: The author decides The community decides The reader’s friends decide The reader decides I’d add three more options: An editor decides A hand-picked limited community decides An algorithm relying on a limited community
In a nutshell, I'm exploring ways for you to use your network of trusted friends to determine what's good, bad, and dangerous on the internet. Outfoxed does this by adding functionality to the Firefox web browser. Coding began on Dec 27th, 2004.
With a search, you start off with nothing and potentially end up with nothing. Counter to this approach is filtering, where we present everything available, and then encourage the user to progressively remove what they do not need.