For novel networking node noodling (k)nolledge, try Twine beta?

Side note: Ecto 3 Beta 7, the nifty blogging tool for OS X (and earlier tools) just came out. I keep noting this because this version seems to incorporate a feature I asked for in the feedback forum: a default plain text style option. And getting the "add link" a keyboard shortcut again: ⌘-U. Ok maybe it wasn't really my big idears that got it in. But I am trying to help!

On a completely unrelated subject, Kanye West's mom was killed by plastic surgery. Another horrible sign of the times. A tough lady who evidently told her son about a few tricks of language:

After 31 years rising through the teaching ranks to chair the English Department at Chicago State, Donda West retired in 2004 to manage her son's burgeoning career. She also headed up Super Good, the parent company of the emcee's fast-growing business empire, which includes apparel, accessories and other lifestyle products, and was the chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to increasing literacy and preventing youths from dropping out of school.

TWINE: Here is an interesting one for people to see. Twine is in early development stage. It is an attempt at "web 3.0" but perhaps remains at "Web 2.5" in the judgment of experts. Here is what their About page says:

Twine Ties it all Together: Twine is a new service that intelligently helps you share, organize and find information with people you trust.

Share more productively. In Twine you can safely share information and knowledge, and collaborate around common interests, activities and goals. Twine helps you better leverage and contribute to the collective intelligence of your network. Use Twine to share more productively with friends, colleagues, groups and teams.

Get more organized. Twine provides one place to tie everything together: emails, bookmarks, documents, contacts, photos, videos, product info, data records, and more. And, because Twine actually understands the meaning of any information you add in, it helps you organize all your stuff automatically. Finally, you can search and browse everything and everyone you know, about anything, in one convenient place.

Find and be found. You are like a snowflake – you are totally one-of-a-kind. Twine recognizes what makes you special: your unique interests, personality, knowledge and relationships, to help you find and discover things, and be found by others, more relevantly.

Who is Twine For?

Friends. Colleagues. Groups. Teams. Anyone who needs help dealing with the growing array of information and relationships on the Web today. Whether you just need to organize and share with friends, or you need to collaborate better with teams, Twine provides the smartest way to tie it all together.

How Does Twine work?

We thought you’d never ask! Well, in a nutshell Twine uses the Semantic Web, natural language processing, and machine learning to make your information and relationships smarter. But if that’s all Greek to you, just think of Twine as your very own intelligent personal Web assistant, working for you behind the scenes so you can be more productive.

Here is Radar Networks' list of articles about Twine. Basically you can put in all your stuff and RSS feeds, etc, and the website pulls out all the keywords. Then you can share with your friends/team etc and everything works nicely. So far the gurus are a bit skeptical because the front page is really not exciting. This was a thoughtful review of the potential. Here is one from Tim O'Reilly, the big guru of the O'Reilly tech books and related schemes. I signed up for the Twine beta review, and will check it out.

On a related note, there's a good review of Web2.0 vs Web1.0 and what Google is trying to do in the Big Picture, now with this new "Open Social" protocol. They say it's a 'kind big brother' for providing services, and that is a little bit questionable.