Twine Brings Us Web 3.0?

Twine is a new service in private beta whose goal it is to help you share, organize, and find information with people you trust. In Twine, you can safely share information and knowledge, and collaborate around common interests, activities and goals and this helps you better leverage and contribute to the collective intelligence of your network. Although this sounds like a very generic web 2.0 service so far, it’s how Twine accomplishes this that may make it the harbinger of web 3.0, often referred to as the semantic web.  

According to CEO Nova Spivack, “Twine uses natural language processing and statistical, link and graph analysis, as well as Web crawling, data mining and machine learning to figure out what information users put into the system is about, what it means and what is should be related to. Then Twine connects it and organizes it for you automatically. Web 2.0, as Tim O’Reilly says, is all about collective intelligence. Twine does it in a smarter way—it’s Web 2.0 with a brain, which is sort of what web 3.0 is. From an industry and technical perspective Twine is the first mainstream example of how the semantic Web could manifest for end user. As Twine learns, it helps you to search better. Social search is based on the semantic graph. It ranks information in a couple of different ways—by relevance, time and relative to me, meaning the social distance from me in the semantic graph. We also have a new way to rank information based probability analysis of the semantic graph and how you are connected to the information, showing you stuff that is likely to be from sources you trust or is things you would be interested in. Basically it combines social and semantic search—the more you put it, the more it learns about you.”

Twine is designed more for teams sharing information among themselves, rather than individuals users. If you are as intrigued as I am, you can visit the Twine homepage and register for the beta.