You can publish stories thru My. UserLand and pick them up on other sites that are running affiliate.root. You could run a search engine that indexes 25 sites that you like every hour. If you let other people use your search engine you could put ads on your home page and get a VC to finance you, do an IPO and retire to the Mediterranean and sail and make pottery. If you're not thinking about retirement at this time you could help us explore new related technologies in content management, editorial workflow and desktop editing tools.
Web based interface OK, now here come the docs.
To get an idea of what affiliate.root can do, become familiar with My. It's just an affiliate. Everything it does can be done within the context of affiliate.root, we know this is true because there's no extra software running on our server. This is the source code for My. At the top level of affiliate.root has a table called affiliateWebsite.