'Semantic' website promises to organise your e-life

'Semantic' website promises to organise your e-life

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"Although only available to only about a 100 testers, Twine has caused a stir among web experts because it is one of the first few commercial ventures to try harnessing the semantic web.
Other semantic start-ups include the search engines Powerset and True Knowledge, and a free semantic database service called Freebase.
As a technology that could transform the way websites work, the semantic web is often also associated with the term "Web 3.0".
Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined. A user adds information to Twine by creating a note, forwarding an email, uploading a document, or tagging a web page.
"Twine is a service that helps you de-fragment your digital life," says company founder Nova Spivack. "Today we all have different bits of data in different places, there is no easy way to see all you know, and share and manage it.""

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Alex: The semantic web, by making greater sense out of and helping to organize the digital world, will, I believe, be as revolutionary (i.e. on the order of magnitude) as the original Internet to pre-Internet days. I'm not sure how long it will take leading companies in this area to make a strong impact to the masses. Nova is a Facebook friend (Powerset's Barney Pell is as well), and I've heard a lot of very great things about his company.