Converge

Twine has significantly expanded its beta in the past few days… and as is often the case, I signed up for this beta so long ago, that when I got the invite, I couldn’t remember what exactly it was for. I think I’ve figured it out, and I think I have a use for it.

What is Twine? There’s a good explanation from TechCrunch:

[excerpt] On the surface, Twine is a place to organize information you find or create on the Web—bookmarks, notes, videos, photos,contacts, tasks. (A Web browser plug-in makes it easy to save stuff to your Twine wherever you may find it on the Web). You can also share that information with a private group or publicly. Once you ingest in all the information you want to organize, Twine applies a semantic analysis to it that creates tags for each document or video or photo. The tags match up to concepts that Twine’s algorithms associate with each piece of content, regardless of whether that concept is specifically mentioned in the Web page or other content being tagged.

I’ve joined, and a few other public media types are already members, too. I’ve also created a twine devoted to collecting research and presentations, blog posts, etc., related to either public media or new media or convergence, or whatever. I’m looking for other public media people to join Twine and contribute content to this new collection. And then we’ll see what happens.

Yes, it’s all semantic web, all web3.0. Confused? Intrigued? Feeling a little freaked out about it? Excited? Well, if you want to check out the beta, email me at my gmail address (you can find it on the site or just take a wild guess at it) and I’ll send you an invite.

If the Public Media Twine gets interesting, great. If it dies, well, it was a fun experiment. Jump in if you want… the water’s fine.