We’ve been following Twine for a good bit now, and are very excited to see it finally open in Beta. Twine is a tool that allows individuals, and more importantly, teams, to send items such as emails, notes, presentations, documents, webpages, pictures, and any other material involved in your personal and professional life to a twine or personal page. Their cutting edge semantic inferencing engine will then organize the data for you, helping you to gain a clearer perspective on what you and your team are working on, and also bring in creative recommendations from other individuals and teams with statistically and linguistically correlated twines.
We are especially interested in this because as a startup team, Twine’s system will prove invaluable in increasing productivity and creativity by having an outside party/unbiased mediator (their semantic inferencing engine) analyze our information and help align our thoughts and ideas. As a team, there is a commonality and vision that brings us together and binds us, but unfortunately without a purely unbiased outsider, the differences of each persons’ perceptions will leak into the project and slow it down due to self-interest. However, if you are sending your data to a team page/twine and their inferencing engine is what it is cracked up to be, then it will undoubtedly show us the most important linguistic and semantic components of our project, allowing us to creatively and productively move forward at a faster and more competitive pace. Read the rest of this entry »