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.
Aside from the benefit Twine brings to our team in helping us accomplish our goals, getting some exposure to the inner workings of a semantic system will also help us better develop our Tastevine wine recommendation engine . Nova, said that he’d let us jump the line if we hit the key points well enough, so hopefully he’ll be generous. We’ll definitely write a follow up once we get in and start using the magic. Twine is not only sparking the semantic web, but it is truly the first practical application of computer intelligence. Cheers to Nova and his team at Radar Networks for their pioneering efforts in this new frontier of humanity.
Tags: meaning, recommendation, semantics, tastevine, Technology, twine
