Blueful: storytelling across tons of Web 2.0 platforms

Blueful is a fascinating Web 2.0 story, written across a series of Web 2.0 services, and maybe the most ambitious of all time. 

Here's how it works: pieces of the story, often text, appear on a site.  Then a link to the next one appears, usually as unlinked text, somewhere on the page.

It all starts with a basic web page, http://www.blueful.com/, then advances to Flickr, LastFM, Twitter, a WordPress blog, a LiveJournal blog, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Docs, Google Maps, a Wikipedia user tab, a MySpace page, a del.icio.us account, a Craigslist listing, an Imageshack image, YouTube subtitles, a Zoho slidehow, a Ta-da list, Ning, Sharemusic, a Polldaddy poll (!), Cafepress items, an OKCupid entry, and more.  If you get stuck, check the last site you found for a keyword in quotes, head back to the original Blueful page, and enter that word there to get a URL.

Sometimes the story is written into images:

It would make a fun intro survey to the Web 2.0 world.









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Comments

[Nicole]

This is really amazing! Such sophistication!

[Bryan Alexander]

Isn't it amazing? And I never hear it discussed. Blueful is a kind of limit case, in a way, an extreme form of what can be done, perhaps.