Twine Positions Semantic at a Forefront

Social bookmarking sites are quickly replacing the conventional way of saving one’s favorite websites on an Internet browser. Sites like Digg.com are becoming more widely used as a means for catching up on news in technology and entertainment, among other industries. And although Digg.com has reigned in popularity, it appears other companies want to take social bookmarking one step further. Twine is a bookmarking site which also prides itself in being a knowledge-tracking application that plans on changing the way in which users bookmark.

What will set Twine apart? The New York Times reports that “Twine is built on years of work in semantic technology, a branch of computer science that makes human-generated information understandable to computers.”  That is to say, Twine will go through different submissions and pull specific information to create tags. The semantic web is the most up-and-coming technology that industry leaders are looking to enhance user experience. Only time will tell if Twine will bring semantic to the forefront and users will be able to understand how semantic can help their Internet experience.