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OLISP: Open List Processing

What is OLISP?

OLISP (www.olisp.com) is a Web 3.0 social listing service. Think of Delicious but not just for bookmarks. “OLISP” stands for “Open List Processing.” For the geeks out there, the reference to “LISP” here is intentional. OLISP is Dacris Software’s first experiment in the world of social media as well as Web 3.0.

Philosophy Behind OLISP

  • Open: For developers, this means back-end source code is available through intelligent REST APIs. Front-end is infinitely extensible and we encourage the development of plug-ins and mash-ups as needed. For users, it means you can access your data however you want, and share it with the world at the same time.
  • Simple: The core function of OLISP is simple – create arbitrary lists (bags) of items, where each item is assigned an arbitrary set of tags. The core features of OLISP will remain largely the same 20 years from now.
  • Dependable: Developers can rely on the API which will always be backwards compatible. End users can rely on plug-ins to be well-behaved and safe. Their lists, items, and shared links will still exist and work 20 years from now.

20-Year Vision

It’s often hard to think in terms of decades in the age of Moore’s law. Yet this is exactly what we are attempting to do with OLISP. Why? Because we believe the benefit to the community will be enormous.

The web needs a brain. It has been unable to get one for the longest time, because of changing standards and evolving infrastructure. Now, the web has matured enough that we can expect certain technologies, like JavaScript, to still be in use 20 years from now.

This is a call to action to developers worldwide to start building on OLISP and produce the first brain for the Internet. We argue that Web 3.0 is distributed intelligence. We alone can’t make that vision happen. However, we can set an example for the community with OLISP.

What will the web look like 20 years from now? Most likely, it will be a collection of distributed data, accessed through HTTP. Data over HTTP (also called the “semantic web”) is a key aspect of Web 3.0. Programs built on this data will be extremely intelligent, allowing you to spend less time finding what you actually want (as opposed to what others think you want).