A Promise Service
As an early demonstration of the social contract idea, I am considering writing a small standalone promise service in which people can create, bind, and transfer promises within an open public, community setting. I would build it around a web service API first, with a light web front end. Nothing fancy, just enough to convey the social parts of this stuff. Interesting extensions like economics and folksonomies could be layered on top later via the API.
I could see this working with OPENSTUDIO, but only via this API. I’d like to keep the code separate. At this point I think we all see the power of many useful standalone components rather than a few big, messy specialized ones.