Wis.dm Through Tagging

A specialty of Web 2.0 is the wisdom of many rather than the knowledge of one. Many ones come together to form one big pile of many, but the pile is quite organized. That’s the kind of thinking that seems to have jumpstarted a site called Wis.dm, a social network – small at the moment – which, in essence, is a bunch of things rolled into one friendly, ultra-connected mob. Can you tell we like it?

The folks who gave birth to Wis.dm seem to have taken a lesson right out of the Wired playbook. The big, blocky colors; similar fonts; a lotta different information in one place without the mess. It’s all very good. Well done, guys – and gals, if you’re in there, too.

Where they run with Wis.dm, however, makes it one of a kind. At least we presume it is. (We know, presumptions can be proven false, but that’s where your comments come in.) Wis.dm is all about tags and blurbs. Users add wis.dm (clever, eh?) by adding site links - either their own, or places they’ve visited. They tag finds however they wish, and they’re done.

That’s it. Oh how quickly we reached the end of the tour. Did we rush through? No, no, there really is more, but not much. We only failed to mention the social networking aspect of the site, which is how we introduced the darn place to you to begin with.

Given that Wis.dm is cool and new and wonderful and all that, you’d think that exciting words and phrases would be enough to get you to take a look, but if you need to know more about it before you click the link, here’s more info.

The social networking apparatus in Wis.dm works the same way as your friends list on Digg. You can view what they’ve viewed, commented upon, loved, slammed, etc. We inevitably resort to comparing sites to others. We can’t help it. Like in our real lives, there are six degrees of separation between you and I and him and her and them on the Web. The same goes for our Web favorites.

This wasn’t always so, but ever since the global population connected through the Internet moved into the hundreds of millions, well, you get where we’re going with this. Think of what sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc., are to you, put ‘em together, and something a lot like Wis.dm comes out. But we did say it’s one of a kind, so do us a favor: play along and put this find in its own class regardless.

We haven’t stopped liking it, and we’re not going to, so you should start to. Oh, no, we’re not being pushy. We just know what’s best for you is all.

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