I was reading my month old copy of Wired today and they had an article about Twine which is a Semantic Web software to filter and provide users based on their browsing history and bookmarks. It's the type of application that I have been discussing in my last few posts. And it supports what I've been writing about.
I visited the site to sign up and they are only accepting applications for the beta release which is disappointing. I wanted to use this site.
I read some of the articles on the press page and some of them were extremely intriguing discussions of Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web.
Posted by: Chris B on Monday, June 9, 2008
Something similar to this? http://misearch.ncibi.org/misearch_help.html
Posted by: Michael Fisher on Thursday, June 12, 2008
That is sort of like what I am getting at but there is an issue with the way this works. In "Ambient Findability" by Peter Morville, he discusses personalization and details some issues with personalizing. In this case the issue is called "The Ambiguity of Behavior" by Morville which means that users aren't always looking for information based on their own needs. In Amazon, you could be buying gifts and searching for health information, you could be looking for someone else. The search profile I'm discussing allows the user to take an active role in what is part of their profile and what isn't.