Comments on: Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life

By: Converge : Public Media: Join the Twine

Converge : Public Media: Join the Twine — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:39:53 +0000

[…] is Twine? There’s a good explanation from TechCrunch: [excerpt] On the surface, Twine is a place to organize information you find or create on the […]

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[…] while back, TechCrunch wrote about They said that once you give Twine whatever information you want, it then applies a semantic […]

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By: Rethinking information | Socialbytes

Rethinking information | Socialbytes — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:47:37 +0000

[…] Twine “applies a semantic analysis to it that creates tags for each document, video or photo. The tags match up to concepts that Twine’s algorithms associate with each piece of content, regardless of whether that concept is specifically mentioned in the web page or other content being tagged. What Twine basically does is automatically generating smart tags and connects them together.” as explained by ERP-network. […]

By: Collective creativity

Collective creativity — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:43:49 +0000

Rethinking information…

On the latest blogpost of Think Differently!! they posted a video by Michael Wesch to explain the shift from paper-based information to digital information. It’s a video that tries to summarize some of the content of the book Everything is miscel…

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:48:02 +0000

Is it just del.icio.us with nice GUI? Looks like it’s a bit more SN like Facebook, it better not go down the Social Network route of Facebook. It’d be great to replace my annoying StumbleUpon and have better intelligence as it claims.

By: aaron schon

aaron schon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:35:30 +0000

This seems like a different flavor of Freebase.com from Danny Hillis’ Metaweb? Nova, could you illustrate the differences, if any? My first instinct is that this is just a rehashed Freebase - which BTW does not seem to have a great uptake.

By: Phillip Marquez

Phillip Marquez — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:45:58 +0000

@NosyJoe
Interesting… But I don’t think these are comparable. Obviously I don’t have hands-on experience with either Twine or NosyJoe, but from what I’ve gathered NosyJoe relies on user submissions for interesting stuff then runs it through the “auto-magic process” (my words, not theirs) for searches. My understanding of Twine is less Digg-like and more on a personal level with the ability to make my collection of stuff private/friends/public viewable (and thus, searchable).

By: Phillip Marquez

Phillip Marquez — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:40:59 +0000

@John F.
Above and beyond the potential for information sharing between friends, I do an immense amount of searching for stuff at work. Rare and hard to find information gets printed (so I have a hard copy in case the original site goes poof) and bookmarked (del.icio.us). For a while I was using clipmarks (to avoid having to hard copy stuff), and so on and so forth.

I’ve considered setting up a wiki for paraphrasing and reference links. The problem with this is that I don’t have the time at work to always make these notes for the wiki, etc. Having something that bookmarks, allows notes, tasks, etc. sounds like a godsend.

Yeah, there’s stuff out there that does this (mostly diverse services for different aspects), but the icing is the semantic bit and the auto-tagging. If twine begins even half as great as this sounds on paper, I’ll be a happy camper.

@john
Read comment #7 by Nova regarding the DARPA bit.

By: john

john — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:20:44 +0000

man if the spooks have funded this, i won’t use it for anything, go ahead and put your whole life in their - i’m sure the gov would love to troll the database. hopefully radar isn’t using it for gov-sponsored research
chilling

By: NosyJoe

NosyJoe — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:40:56 +0000

Twine appears very interesting idea however it seems NosyJoe does pretty much the same job although taking kinda different approach and seems simpler. Based on the content submitted by the users NosyJoe.com’s engine extracts the meaningful components like sentences, phrases and keywords from the content and makes it meaningfully searchable, web visible and findable, clusters it into contextual channels and smart tags and applies a set of algorithms and user patterns to further ranking, mashing and sharing

http://www.nosyjoe.com/tags/twine

By: Sheri Larsen

Sheri Larsen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:32:47 +0000

I just went to the site and found the following:

“Due to enormous popularity, our servers are experiencing extremely high loads.

If you wish to register for Beta, please send an email with your name, email, and organization to info@twine.com.”

Seems like the pressure may have been too much!

By: John Fitzsimmons

John Fitzsimmons — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:09:11 +0000

@Les - same thing happened to me.

@Nova Spivack - If you read this please let us know if our emails got accepted for beta invites. Thanks.

By: John Fitzsimmons

John Fitzsimmons — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:44 +0000

@Phillip - I’m excited too.

This sounds like it has great potential. I almost see it like a del.ic.ious / digg (bookmarking, tagging, social sharing, etc) but add in smart tagging (cause I hate labeling stuff) and then combine that with search results that prioritize by what you and your friends have submitted… friggin’ sounds sweet.

Hope it’s executed well. C’mon beta!!!

By: Les

Les — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:04:49 +0000

I tried signing up for the BETA as this looked very useful. My browser (or their site) froze. Then I tried registering again and the message back indicated that my e-mail address already existed. So I figured that I was registered after all. And then ….. I looked for a lost password link (since the system) never prompted me for one prior to freezing the first time. And there was none. So now I am posting here because this site doesn’t freeze and I want these guys to know that their server may be over-subscribed. Like posting on Tech Crunch won’t generate traffic — DUH!

By: Phillip Marquez

Phillip Marquez — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:33:10 +0000

Wow, I read the article, ran over to the twine site and signed up for the beta then read the few comments here and can’t help but wonder… Am I the only consumer that is excited about this?

Nova! Pick me! Pick me!

I’m ready to test this, since it seems quite useful both for my personal junk as well as work stuff.

By: MonkeyTalk

MonkeyTalk — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:56:58 +0000

Sounds like a perfect match for AOL junk, why dont they picth this idea to them - AOL might be very interested in it. Why do people re-invent the wheel? There are already gazillion applications that do this, and BTW Google will crush it in no time - pretty soon.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:10:04 +0000

Funny, their logo looks pretty similar to TripIt. What’s with all the generic logo graphics lately?

By: 42mb.com

42mb.com — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:45:53 +0000

I like the idea of semantic analysis and tagging features, I hope that will help to let the content travel fast. Thanks for the detail.

By: Nova Spivack

Nova Spivack — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:06:02 +0000

Just a note — Radar Networks has not raised money from DARPA and we are not DARPA funded. We did however subcontract on a DARPA funded SRI program, CALO (”Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes”) for a few years, several years ago, in the early stages of research. If you could note that, I would appreciate it.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:43:38 +0000

If you are online that much, you don’t have a li…….
Oh never mind!

ttp://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: myLook

myLook — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:55:27 +0000

These kinds of services are extremely useful for highly specific searches. I now use del.icio.us quite frequently over Google for a QUALITY tutorial or software download page.

- myLook

By: Noah Ready-Campbell

Noah Ready-Campbell — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:49:09 +0000

I see why this is cool from a provider/producer perspective, and I see why Twine’s tags will make search interesting once everyone uses it, but where is the value for the consumer now? There are already about a million ways to bookmark things, many of which also allow one to search through one’s bookmarks.

Businesses like network effects because, long term, they’re one of the best sustainable competitive advantages out there. But you need to offer enough initial value for people to jump on board. It’s hard to get the mix right, and I’m not sure Twine has.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:35:18 +0000

I wonder if they their bet is based on an assumption that sharing information and tools for sharing is going to replace web searching?