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For Tony. Quick Intro To Twine
Posted by DaneMorgan • 8/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogcatalog, community, search, semantic web, taxonomy, twine
Go to this search.
www.twine.com/search?text=BlogCatalog
Right now you are looking at everything in Twine related to BlogCatalog sorted by semantic relevance. it's interesting to note that the top result is probably less than satisfying in this case because Dad's Blog for some reason linked to the BC front page, not to his profile, which skews the semantic meaning of the entry.
Now right above the results you can choose to limit that to people related to BlogCatalog or Twines related to BlogCatalog.
You can also choose to sort by date created, date updated, alpha ascend or alpha descend.
To the left you can filter the results based on:
related twines
related tags
related people
related places
related organizations
types of items
people who posted
Again there IS some skew in the listing because the data set is small and some people are participating quite a bit, while others are not at all. Over time this will normalize, but the service is small and new right now. But this IS the future of search.
Even so, look at what is semantically related to this search in "organizations"
* Google
* Google Inc.
* Islamica
* LinkedIn
* Muslim Business Club
* MyBlogLog
* Salam Business Club
* Shyftr Gets More Social
* SummerFest
* The Microsoft Network
* Toluu
* Twitter
* Unite
* Yahoo Inc.
And in "tags"
* audio
* blog
* blogcatalog
* blogging
* crm
* feed
* heart
* imama
* islamic
* magazine
* malcolm x
* mawlid
* milad
* moslem
* muhammad saleem
* muhammed
* music
* muslim
* nabi
* outlandish
* prayer
* project26
* prophet
* pulse
* rss
* shafii
* social networking
* stumbleupon
* tahir anwar
* umar faruq abd-allah
Pretty good list, I'd say. We have a blogger with a Muslim related blog, who is tagging BC items related to his blog, and that is skewing in the Islam references heavily because they are disproportionately represented right now. But take those away, and most bloggers, never having heard of BC would be able to tease out a good idea of what it is. A social network and directory for bloggers.
User Comments
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So, I've just been fired from BC by the Board and you're now in charge. What do you extract from what Twine is doing and integrate with BC and what you know about the community to increase the value of BC to members? -
At the simplest level you start tracking how posts about blogging relate to posts about wordpress or blogger or rss as opposed to history or fruit or obama. you start logging how many times these words appear together within a forum post or a blog post, or a book mark.
You also see how many of stonemans posts are about history or obama or wordpress and how many of timethiefs posts are about these things as opposed to blogging or marketing or advertising.
you start drawing conclusions that people interested in wordpress are bloggers and people interested in obama are political and people interested in Jesus are religious. You determine these connections by how they appear together in texts and how often what people reference them.
You also tag certain data sets as people, organizations, places, times etc.
Then when a search is done, rather than focusing on a strict keyword match, you provide semantic relationships. I might search for "blogging" and now you can actually return a blog post about "setting up your first wordpress blog" even though that article NEVER references the word blogging.
If DaneMorgan is searching for WordPress, you know from his texts that he already knows how to install it and you skew "beginner", "install", "setup" and the like downward. But then TimmyNeverBlogged does the same search, and because his texts have never referenced Wordpress before, you skew the same things up.
For both of them though, you offer options to filter the results based on tags, people, blogs, groups and other things that are semantically related to the search.
And then here is what NOONE else is doing yet.
You have two columns. In the first, you organize the results by giving a BLOG with basic info on the blog and then a couple of posts from the blog MOST relevant to the search. Then the next most related blog with a few of it's posts and so on.
in the second you do the same thing, but you do it with Blog catalog members and their forum posts. -
Oh, and then you rehire Tony....
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