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Social bookmarking service Twine attracted a lot of attention as an early poster boy for semantic technology, which it uses to help serve you links customized to your interests. But in addition to delivering smarter bookmarks, Twine just unveiled a better interface for exploring that content.Rather than showing you the normal list of bookmarks that you see on Twine and other content-sharing sites like Digg, the service now offers a “visualization” option, which allows you to scroll through one headline at a time (see the video below), at a speed that’s much faster than scrolling up-and-down the page. Some have compared the interface to Cover Flow, the iTunes interface that lets you scroll through album and movie covers, though it also reminded me of Cooliris, which lets you scroll through a 3D wall to explore different media, including news articles. Twine’s visualization is more stripped-down than Cooliris’, showing only one article at a time — but that approach may work better for Twine, since it’s emphasizing text (specifically titles and headlines) rather than images or videos.The service was developed by a San Francisco company called Radar Networks, which had raised a total of $18 million from Velocity Interactive Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Leapfrog Ventures, and Vulcan Capital. When we last covered Twine, it seemed to be growing “explosively”. Traffic continued to rise for several months, according to data from Compete, but finally started to level off in May at just under 2 million monthly unique visitors.
What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. Twine, a site which lets you collect and subscribe to different interest feeds, just introduced a new way to wade through its streams. The new Flash visualization presents your stream of shared links as a deck of headlines which you can shuffle through (see video below). A slider along the bottom, lets you cycle through the deck by time, and arrows underneath let you move sequentially, or you can just click on a deck in the background to move it forward. If you want to learn more, you can flip each deck to read a snippet and link to the full detail page. The semantic tags associated with each item also show up on the side and can be clicked on to navigate through the deck.
What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. Twine, a site which lets you collect and subscribe to different interest feeds, just introduced a new way to wade through its streams.
The new Flash visualization presents your stream of shared links as a deck of headlines which you can shuffle through (see video below). A slider along the bottom, lets you cycle through the deck by time, and arrows underneath let you move sequentially, or you can just click on a deck in the background to move it forward. If you want to learn more, you can flip each deck to read a snippet and link to the full detail page. The semantic tags associated with each item also show up on the side and can be clicked on to navigate through the deck.