Why we think Synaptic Web will focus on the users

Our earlier post about the Semantic vs. Synaptic Web has raised some questions about the users of this new web trend. Why do we think it will be about the users and no more about the computers talking between each other.

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We can reference a bit with Ghost in The Shell. There is a network in which everyone is connected, our bodies are cyborg and only our brain and thoughts are real and even those can be manipulated if you know how.

How would we fit into the picture at our current age and development of web. We can look at it that we currently have this giant network of data, information and everything. The data is being processed, manipulated and given new meaning each second through mostly open API that people are giving out.

Here we then come to our brains and us as users. We alone read the patterns and connections that start to establish around the things. We give the best feedback to developers. Pushing how we use the application, trying to make it as much human as we can, but the machine can not learn so fast, there is still time to put in and connection that we must establish.

The synaptic web is focusing just on that, that we establish the necessary connection through user interactivity instead of just reading and parsing the text material data and produce extracts, tags and other meta data around things. The user should show us their patterns of use. We are each an individual, using the same applications in different ways.

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So tracking the users behavior and incorporating the connections in the application is the thing that Synaptic Web in our opinion will do. As Semantic Web was just gathering the data and extracting meanings, upgrading the web to a machine learning stage.

The Synaptic Web will hopefully bring the next step, connecting the machines to users and helping users interact with them in a simple way. All users really want is to get the important information for them first, without having to distinguish and apply their own patterns daily as we do currently.

Synaptic Web is the brain-computer interface of the web.

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This entry was written by Peter Čuhalev, posted on January 7, 2010 at 9:18 am, filed under synaptic web and tagged Application programming interface, Brain, Data, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation, Machine learning, Metadata, Semantic Web, synaptic web. Bookmark the permalink.
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