Author: admin July 10, 2008
Twine going for semantic connections rather than social. Clive Thompson from Wired explains.
Twine applies a set of natural-language and semantic tools to any text you feed it — Web page, Word document, email — to determine the key content. It’s omnivorous: You can even email it all your bookmarks, and it’ll quietly venture online, examine the content of each link, and file the information away in your Twine account…
I’ve experienced this myself. My Facebook page attracts my friends, with whom I share social bonds. Meanwhile, my science blog attracts complete strangers, with whom I share a common interest in a topic — like a scientific study I’ve blogged about. It’s a semantic relationship, based on shared meaning. So those strangers tend to tell me things — and point me to links — that are more useful than the social stuff on my Facebook page. Information trumps friendship…Read More
Tags: Information Overload