Twine

Another interesting aspect to the participatory web has been rise of social networking - born of bulletin boards, forums, list-servers, wiki's and blogs - social networking has seen the growth of platforms that allow direct instant and delayed communications with friends and acquaintances - comparison of likes, sharing of music tasks, photos of the dog and latest camping trip and all the other fun things people fill their time with.  The recent announcement of (see the O'Reilly Radar post here) Twine.com by Radar networks promises a platform that will allow social networks to develop information streams, that are correlated by an automated tagging system and most importantly by people... which is a very intriguing idea, since ideas come from people and who better then the source to best illuminate what is meant by that particular paragraph.  It also relates by the recent Radar post about in-stream documents - documents are no longer a discrete file, to be opened/read/edited - the information they contain are objects that can be assembled based on search criteria into dynamic repositories of data.  Can't wait to try it! Also interested to see how these platforms will play with efforts like Fedora