The semantic web could be the calculator of the future. It could be the wheel of the past. It could be the doughnut of this morning.

Best,
-CF

http://blog.the-shades.net/2008/05/i-love-twine.html

I first read about Twine today in a swedish newspaper named “Ny teknik” (“New technology”). It caught my attention immediatly.

One of the many reasons are the fact that I love beta testing and contributing in development and testing.
I am currently testing the FF3 betas, Mozilla Labs’ Prism and Weave, OpenLina (www.openlina.org), OpenOffice 3.0, among others.
I have suggested ideas that have been implemented in several projects – and a few days ago I’ve got an email from the developers of one of the projects in which they told me that they are sending me a shirt with their logo as thanks!

This is one part of why I like the web as well as the technology behind it. Anybody can contribute. Everybody can use it, everybody can help, everybody can give feedback and everybody can improve it.

And about the technology and development:
When the first search engines on the web was launched, they *anything* could end up in the results besides what you searched for. Ranking was just based on how many times the words was repeated.
Now I can search for anything on Google and usually find it in less then five clicks, thanks to that the ranking and indexing are better.

Thanks to the semantic web, including RDF, tagging, item linking, microformats, microservices and data portabiliy and these kind of services, I might not have to search for anything again – just bookmark everything I like and it will be linked to everything that’s related and showing me what you might like.
And the only time when searching will be necessary would be when looking for things that you haven’t looked for using these web 3.0 services before.

And the social parts makes it even better – I might not even have to send those links that I find to my friends, I just have to add all the tags and data to the items and my friend will se that I have them bookmarked.
All I have to do is to tell them that I found something they might be interested in and in what category, then they can see what I found along the way and even add more data to it.

I’d love this, and if I could get a beta invite I’d be happy.
I can’t wait until I can get all my friends using it, and then this will be another one of my favorite always-open-when-I-get-access-to-the-Internet sites.

I can’t wait until everybody understands what the semantic web is all about and when all sites are using microformats, and similiar – and I will do what I can to contribute.

I would like to test that technology mainly due the fact that my web-browser bookmarks have no AI, let alone that sometimes it is hard to find the exact content I am looking for, since I have more than 1500 links. I hope the Twine technology shall help me manage all those stuffs and share them with others too.

Best Regards!

Marcelo

New approaches to searching and making results more productive and rewarding is something a lot of developers are concerned with. I am interested in learning more about how innovations such as Twine, microformating, and other semantic web solutions will affect how I work with data.

Part of my professional responsibilities include knowing how technology is being used for meaning making. Staying informed is a large part of what I need a tool like Twine for.

I would love an invitation to participate in the Twine beta.

Thank you for your site and for the opportunity.

Treden

Mebbe now is my chance to get out google reader and comment ..

the blog design is pretty cool .. good work on posts

ok, before twine.. i am working in UCD dublin for my phd research in the field of image analysis n tagging and semantic / ontologies techniques .. if it gives some idea that i have been involved in semantic techniques and have tested few other websites which have been trying to collaborative or semantic or other similar ways like powerset labs search, recently also tired pageonce. thou its not that exciting as it has no actual ML/semantic web

and per twine.. i have heard about it for sometime now and the most interesting part of their work as far as i have read in webware or other sites, is the use of semantic web techniques like RDF etc.. thou not sure how much of it actual of use in real life scenario and would love to see what sort of things they are testing. Another thing i read was about giving tags (i love tags .. i have to thou .. its my research topic) to stored items, if i am correct, on twine.. and what kind of usefulness they have in twine and if its gives useful recommnedations based on user tags and semantic graphs…

ok gotta rum, FC barcelona playing MU..

hope to get n try twine ..

good work on blog again.. keep it up

cheers
Mo.

I’m a doctoral candidate in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and a certificate candidate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. My research (both professional and academic) concerns young people’s interactions with new technology in educational environments (http://gregorydonovan.org/cv.html). My dissertation largely focuses on the semantic codification of young people’s everyday life – looking specifically at how young people produce, consume, circulate and evaluate digital information across race/gender/class. Young people’s concept of privacy and ‘openness’ in such an informational environment is also a major theme of my research.

I’m also a blogger (http://cyberenviro.org) and an avid user of facebook, del.icio.us, Flickr, Last.fm, twitter, youtube, etc… I’ve tried to construct my blog as an aggregator for my various research-related online activities. This is perhaps most visible in the “digital footprint” section of my blog, where I’ve tried to organize all of my RSS feeds (http://gregorydonovan.org/cyberenviro/social-feed/). I setup my blog to function as both an epistemological tool for the development of my dissertation and as a space for playing around with the various ways information can be consumed/produced/circulated/evaluated online. Which brings me to why I’d LOVE a twine account…

What looks so interesting about twine is the way it is fully embracing the semantic web (or attempting to fully embrace). I’ve completely given up on MySpace, Friendster and Orkut – and facebook just barely interests me, its essentially the best of the worst. Having a chance to participate in the beta version of this social network would be a valuable peek into the ways cyber-sociality and knowledge production might operate in the near future. Also, being part of a community that is playing around with OWL, RDF and Semantic Graphs would give me some much needed experiences from which I could situate my somewhat abstract understanding of the semantic web.

OK – that’s it for now. I’m writing this from a cafe and my battery is about to die…

Cheers!

I’ve read the French translation of your precedent post about “Why I Migrated Over to Twine (And Other Social Services Bit the Dust)” on the blog of a friend (link here http://xtof.livejournal.com/20729.html).
I really trust this friend, and I specially “over-trust” him when it’s about microformats or other semantic-related subjects
So, I think that if he spent time to translate your post (a very good one I have to say), it’s enough motivation for me for being impatient and trying to have an invitation for the beta.

I could ad that I’m 100% with you concerning the interest and the “power” of the process of a real beta and the interest of living a beta VS all the “pseudo” betas that just have the name beta.
For mapovino, the main project I work this time, we try to take the more juice of the beta, and we’ve just started planing some “beta-tastings”, that are kind of IRL meeting during the [real] beta where we share about the project, features, feedback etc. while we also taste some good wine (yes, this is a wine related project!). There will be more about this beta-tasting experiment on betatasting.com very soon.

My last point is that we are going slowly with mapovino but/because we have on our priorities to be the most “semanticly intelligent” we can.
We want microformats everywhere, we want to organize the “social network” side of the project in regard of what is discussed about DiSo, data portability and other stuffs like that, and I think that experimenting Twine could bring at least some sane ideas, and may be more with possibility for using some APIs between mapovino and twine (e.g. for bookmarks).

And here is the short comment: please, I’d love [beta] tasting [T]wine!