What the SynapticWeb means for you and I

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The Synaptic Web has been around for a while now, the nearly two months are an age in internet terms, but it hasn’t been known for as long as the semantic web and the real-time web. They’ve been around for eons upon eons and are thus far better understood.

This is why we don’t know much about what the Synaptic Web is supposed to be, why I don’t know much about it, Khris Loux might, Eric Blantz perhaps, Chris Saad maybe, they coined the term after all, came up with the concept even. But outside of creating a lovely article on the subject over at synapticweb.org there hasn’t been much news on the matter.

However this doesn’t stop us from being among the first implementors of synaptic algorithms. Don’t think we just plunged into this head-first after hearing the buzzword though, we’ve been at it for a while now. Hunting for an elusive algorithm that understands users and content and the way information flows between sources. The phrase was just icing on the cake when we heard of it – finally a name to use.

But this brings us to an important question. Why would you care? Sure the whole thing is developer porn. But what’s in it for you, the user?

Web2.0 didn’t really bring you anything but a bunch of beta stuff. The semantic web went by largely in the background, Zemanta being perhaps the most for-the-user of the whole movement. Social networks are merely a logical next step from what we’re used to in the real world. And the real-time web is just flooding you with information every few seconds instead of a few times a day.

So what the hell can the synaptic web do for you?

For the first time in … a very long time … we are finally on the brink of changing the way humans look at information forever. Finally something that helps everybody and isn’t just a cool gimmick.

They Synaptic Web is the only possibility for people to get all the information … in manageable and orderly fashion.

Think about it for a moment. All the information. Manageably!

You will actually be able to read everything your friends say and won’t be flooded by the stream because there’s a gatekeeper helping you out. It’s like having a personal information butler that reads all the boring stuff and then points out what’s really interesting and cool.

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This entry was written by swizec, posted on December 22, 2009 at 9:13 am, filed under synaptic web and tagged Chris Saad, Human, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation, Real-time computing, Semantic Web, Social network, Web 2.0. Bookmark the permalink.
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