Been playing around with the new kid on the block called Twine. It is supposed to be a semantic web godsend, but its just there.  To simulate the average user wanting to quickly sign in, I did not pick topics for it to classify me. The result was a stream of comments from people beginning with “Don’t read it if you like twine”.   Not a good look.

The focus of the product is creating an interest feed. This concept sounds like what the folks at Netvibes and Pageflakes were trying to achieve with their public pages. Unfortunately those did not work out great either.  Also organization was one of the main points, but its just not looking like it.

This might be fantastic for someone else, but it might be better to wait until the folks have taken more time to play with it. The public release will likely be much better ( and faster), and it takes a little time to work out a great idea.

We hope it gets lots better so we can stand to look it in the face again. If you want to check it out for yourself we have some invites, you can ask in the comments or through the contact form.  We are also including a video from the creators showing how to use it fresh out of the box.