There's a lot of noise out in the SharePoint space around SharePointPedia which is something that Lawrence Lui has been championing within Microsoft. There is screencasts here and here.

Personalization

I've created my profile and have added some content to various tagged areas. Be interesting to see if I get recommended ;-) The My Tags feature is very clever in terms of showing you the tags you've used when submitting content.

Authentication

It uses Windows Live ID integration which is great, because the last thing I need is another username and password to look after!

Recommendations

It also has a Digg like recommendation and comments feature. It's great to be able to see what each user has submitted also to get an idea of what they are focused on.
The most recommended and recent posts are a good way to keep track too. With the Most Recommended there are only 2 on there, they must have capped it to over x amount of recommendations, I wonder if they'll have to keep incrementing this manually or whether there's some smarts in there. There's also some nice work done with the RSS feeds too.

Bill does point out that this is really what SharePointKicks was all about! And to be perfectly honest, why didn't they just use a social bookmarking site (del.icio.us/diigo) or something like Digg anyway? I guess it does just focus on the SharePoint community, lets see how it goes. I'll try and keep up with submitting content here as well as on Diigo for now to share with the community my findings.

Community involvement

I must admit, it would be great if someone like Steve Pietrek picked up this and started using it as his links are an awesome resource. I've tried emailing him in the past with no joy, does anyone else have better connections with this guy?

Recommendations

Firefox

One criticism I have is that it doesn't work fully in Firefox. For instance, the UI looks different in both and the Recommend button and Paging does not work in Firefox.
This is a typical issue with SharePoint functionality in general and does highlight one big failure of the product in the Web Content Management Space against it's competitors such as RedDot CMS and Interwoven TeamSite.
I tend to prefer to work in Firefox than IE because the tabbing is quicker and also I have the Diigo and Google toolbar all set up how I like it. The only reason I use Internet Explorer is because of SharePoint sites and I find that when IE crashes it can cause all sorts of issues for the Operating System whereas in the unlikely event Firefox crashes it doesn't.

Tags

There don't appear to be any tags for development type activities. Looking at my diigo tags I have a heap more, but again, everyone classifies things different so not sure how they've come up with these exactly. Only "Tier 2" users can create new tags so it will be interesting to see how this evolves.

Submitting content

When you try and add a URL that is already added, the validation just throws up saying that it already exists. It would be nice if it linked you to this item and allowed you to have the option to recommend it and make a comment. Rather than having to go find it yourself.

Recommendation link

It would be great to be able to hook in the recommendations straight into the linked content like Digg for example. Or even just provide a Recommendation quick link as most authors who are keen will already submit their content straight into SharePointPedia.

Profile information

It would be great to have more information on the SharePoint experts out there. I mean everyone knows who Joel Olsen, Andrew Connell, Bob Mixon, Arpan Shah and Isahi Sagi are but there are plenty out there for specific areas that are worth keeping up with.