Twine trial feelings

by:阮一峰

onI once wrote a"Freebase further study "later,Xulian ofUser give me aTwine.comthe invitation to join.

leading IT mediaReadWriteWeb, have said may be Twine "A mainstream application of the Semantic Web "(The First Mainstream Semantic Web App). Therefore, I very interested in it.

Below is some of my feelings after the trial.

one, Twine what »

First, the need to explain, Twine the site of what is in the end. This is not a very easy thing, because it's a bit complicated concept.

although not exact, but can be simple to understand, Twine is a strengthening of the delicious bookmarksdel.icio.us.

del.icio.us all the features, Twine offer, but also more. It allows you to save at the same time, the entire contents of the page preserved.

However, it is not just a bookmark sites, it allows you to upload files. You can drive in the report, photos, video, upload boost. In other words, it actually also integrates a part of Flickr's features and Youtube.

Therefore, from this point of view, Twine is a personal Internet data centers.

Below are the user's personal page (click to enlarge).

2, Twine information management

whether bookmarks, or upload documents, Twine require users to add their summary (Final) and tag (label).

Twine automatically analyze these terms in the text, and then extracted from one of place names and organizations were. Then, through these symbolic terms, Twine will know your interest, you will automatically provide relevant content and information management organizations.

For example, yesterday, Xinhua news"the Olympic flame in Hong Kong Highlights transmission frequency is ":

5 on 2, the Beijing Olympic Games torch relay activities held in Hong Kong, China. The first rod torchbearers, Hong Kong, China has won its first Olympic gold medal in windsurfing famous athlete Lee Lai-shan started carrying the torch pass.

According to the design concept, Twine for some of these words to add the following meta-information. (This step can only do manual, the system has not to this degree of intelligence.)

figures: Lee Lai-shan

Location: Hong Kong, China

Organization: Beijing Olympic Games

With these meta-information, the different elements can be linked up.

Below is the relevant content pages show pictures (click to enlarge).

Twine

This is the design of Objective: To all of the pages of a parcel of the semantic (semantic wrapper). After the machine to create the conditions for treatment. This is it called the "semantic Web,"the reasons for the application.

3, Twine of the groupware features

all users to add a single material, known as the item (entry). Twine will allow you to a number of related item, the formation of a node, but this node can be shared by many members of the building.

For example, the "Beijing Olympic Games"is a node, you can add to this node and all related things, whether external pages, photos, videos can be. Therefore, it is tantamount to a number of members to build a common project.

From this point of view, Twine also a bit like the strengthening of wikipedia.

Below is the "Social Network"node pages picture (click to enlarge).

Fourth, the Twine On

introduced from the above we can see, Twine's still a good idea. However, after my actual use, I found that it has a major drawback: it is too high for the user's requirements.

Twine the design objective is to establish a user's personal information management meticulously organized on the basis of. But in fact, users are less likely to add information, it is also bother to consider how to mark meta-information.

This has resulted in the information management advantages Twine difficult to play. From reality, most nodes are very low quality of the information, it is not structured in a hodgepodge.

No wonder there are messages that users pessimistic:

such a complex system will not be successful. Users are lazy. Some of my friends, use del.icio.us, or even too lazy to enter tag. (Never seen such complicated system ever won. User is lazy; some of my friends now even don't want to tag in del.icio.us any more.)

My feeling is this, Twine of the Semantic Web features in fact meaningless, because its use is very troublesome. It should immediately adjust positioning, to move closer to personal information management site, or simply have no future.

P.S.

I can invite five people to join Twine. If you are interested in it, and in my previous post on the Blog of not less than three, please stay below your Email address. While stocks so far.

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