"Curation of existing Web content is being explored by a number of semantic technology companies today /…/ SmallRivers, a firm based in Lausanne, Switzerland and its DIY news platform paper.li is [another] that analyzes millions of links per day in four different languages (and counting). Today, I interviewed Edouard Lambelet, one of the firm’s co-founders who feels that since their alpha-version launch in April, they have met a “sweet spot” with users that now number 300,000+ users internationally, with the greatest percentage coming from the US, UK and northern Europe. Paper.li as one of the front-runners of this technology offers features that are utilizing the “understanding of content and its linkage to users’ interests.” Matching subject matter and like-minded people who are simpatico with that type of content is where semantic technology is headed. To enhance the platform according to Lambelet is “nearly an endless task” but clearly one that positions “paper.li at the merging point between the social web and semantic web,” he says."
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Social Media’s Web 2.0 Merges Into Semantic Web With Paper.li
Paper.li - the Twitter-sourced automated news paper anyone can generate out from you and your followers, Twitter lists and their shared content or out from #hashtags and thus topical - has gained quite significant early adopter rate in the Twitter community. I pondered about its algorithms. I share a finding on the general story - we see an unfolding of the Semantic Web in action, which some refer to as “Web 3.0”. Could we please stop counting incarnations as referred as “upgrades” elsewhere, beyond that …please? And just get, adapt, understand, embrace - and act accordingly - the evolution in more natural flowish stageless real-time fashion?
