Knowledge Tool - Fun to use.

I just found this "tool" - I'm not share how it fits into building a conversation as directly as say - twitter or DimDim or some of the others, but it does lots of support for the research the backs up a good conversation. I'm intrigued by plasticity of the user interface - but that is only because bright shinny things always catch my attention.

The company describes itself this way. Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. Its relational analysis and explanatory graphics provide users with unparalleled contextual insight into the news stories of the day.

More than a news aggregation, Silobreaker provides relevance by looking at the data it finds like a person does. It recognizes people, companies, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context for the user. The graphical search results enables users to quickly and easily understand connections, trends and topics or navigate deeper into the most relevant stories for them. No other news search service provides such an extensive suite of contextual tools in the industry today.

Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research and multimedia sources. With the engine’s focus on finding and connecting related data in the information flow, Silobreaker’s user tools and visualizations are ideal for bringing meaning to content from either today’s Web or the evolving Semantic Web, or both.

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