Will Twine Be Your New Social Bookmarking Site of Choice?

For more than a century, Melvil Dewey has been the patron saint of libraries the world over. His patent Dewey Decimal System made quick work of what was once a herculean, life-consuming feat: creating a cataloguing system that could organize millions of books in a consistent and repeatable manner. Now, Twine, Radar Network's bookmarking and information tracking application looks to follow Dewey's suit, but with the entire internet.



Twine, like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and other sites, allows users to submit site links with summarized descriptions to specific interest groups/categories. Members of the same Twine receive alerts and have access to these links. These Twines, however, can be made either public or private, with additional limiting or selection restrictions available.

Each linked and summarized article or content page generates tags, while Twine, using a new semantic technology, estimates their importance and relevance to other tags. After some time, a cross-referenced knowledge base is produced, which allows users to pull up all articles and content pages deemed relevant by their community. These Twine knowledge bases are meant to provide more informative, intuitive and, above all, relevant subject results than their search engine counterparts.

Though Twine has only 50,000 active users at this point, its success rests not on the amount of active users it has (though that is very important), but on the performance and consistency of its semantic analysis technology. So far, the semantic analysis technology has proven effective. However, Twine has a lot more to prove if it is to be more successful than the other human powered and automated bookmarking sites it faces.

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