When I posted about the Semantic Web (3.0) and corresponding filters I had yet to see a good example to point to that illustrated the point I was trying to make at the time. At that same time, a new company called Twitturly was just beginning to break into the news — I just took notice a few days ago and loved what I saw.
Twitturly uses a single basic semantic rule to organize Twitter posts (tweets). The rule is that URLs represent a topic of interest when passed around to peers. The more a given URL is passed around, the more interesting it is. Twitt(URL)y reads through Twitter’s massive database of posts and organizes “news” stories based on frequency of URL usage.
The result? I pseudo-news page that is a first step toward a completely Web 3.0 aggregation system. As I type this blog post, the following are top “stories” on the site:
1. Tweak Firefox 3 to Display Richer Colors
2. Easy Website Highlighting and Notes with Awesome Highlighter
3. Happiness As Your Business Model
4. Surviving the Net
5. Updated Yahoo Exec Tracker - 114 Execs Left Since January 2007
Most of these come from TechCrunch because that is the audience that uses Twitter, but I think the idea and the direction semantic web will allow us to go is more obvious after seeing this excellent use by Twitturlly.
