Is a Semantic Web in Your Future?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Oct 9, 2008 at 09:19 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I am
>reminded, when reading about Twine and Freebase, of Eric Sommer’s vision of ADM being
>a world-wide outline. While I maintain that ADM was, and still is, among the top out
>liners,

Qua outliner, yes.

the out line metaphor may not have been the best one for realizing Eric’s
>vision, although as a front-end for structuring information a person has in programs
>such Twine and Freebasem it may be appropriate—and this is an assumption on my part,
>given that I have yet to register at these two programs, and am just going on the basis of
>what I have seen written about them.

Well, if it’s not an outline interface, what is it? Something like The Brain?