For the past month, I’ve been working on a new web app/service called lloquy.com. The purpose of the website is simple: Discover new people through their content. If you like discovering interesting stuff to read through Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News, or some other similar website, lloquy.com may be interesting to you.

Online, people are consuming data at an incredible rate. In fact, people double their consumption of information every two years. With this incredible increase, it’s becoming more important to curate, or filter, the information you are receiving. Today, you probably use your friends and social networks to curate content for you. The problem is that this type of curation only occurs from people you know. We believe it’s the people you don’t know who may have the most valuable information to share. lloquy.com was created because we want to help you find those people! 

lloquy.com is “people” focused instead of “content” focus. What does that mean? When your friends link to an article on Twitter, for example, you click the link to read the article, and then move back to Twitter to find the next curated article. lloquy.com focuses on the person who wrote the article, allowing you to easily follow that person and read other content created by that person.

lloquy.com is currently in “beta”. If you want to get an invitation, sign up on the launch page. You’ll get one shortly. If you refer people to the website, you’ll get in quicker. Referring people also has the added benefit of increasing your website influence (Trust me, it’s important. Like currency.). 

Currently, you’re able to do a few things on lloquy.com.

1. Create Dynamic Content Streams: Follow interesting people you meet, and we automatically create a Follow Stream of their actions on the website. This way, you’ll see what these people write, comment, and like on the internet.
2. Comment & Vote Up Webpages: Using the lloquy.com bookmarklet, you can easily comment and vote for content you find on the web. You can also share your comments with your followers on Twitter.
3. Bookmark content for later reading.

That’s about it. While I’ll have more over the coming days/weeks/months, I really want to hear what you have to say. Let me know by email or follow my Twitter account.