Read a cool article in Wired today (or was it Entrepreneur?) about a company called Twine – basically a service that interprets your content interests and recommends cool stuff on the web for you. It’s an invite-only beta and I have no invite, so can’t comment on the service, but the concept is pretty sweet. Ultimately, this type of thing will be immensely helpful to websurfers – the ability to find and filter relevant content for users. Given the information overload that we suffer from today, it will enable us to be that much smarter and more focused on the things we care about.
This harkens back to the idea I had about a web recommendation engine – a comprehensive survey where you can fill in everything about yourself (demographics, behaviors, etc), maybe feed a little data on your web browsing history and your current pains (e.g., too much email, can’t do tasks on time, etc), and the neat little survey spits out a list of the services that you need to use (and you can use only those).
It would suggest Xobni for people who can’t remember past email threads, Netvibes for those that can’t manage their blog feeds, FriendFeed/Spokeo for those who spend too much time browsing social nets for updates, and so forth…
Idea only half-baked and lot harder than it looks, but here’s to wishful thinking
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