Synop.it: A Different Take on Cataloguing the Web
Tagging. It has fundamentally changed the way we find and manage content on the Web. Take a page, an image, or a chunk of media, surround it with keywords, and allow others to do the same. Then mix that tagged content with more tagged content and suddenly context starts to form. But tagging, for all its benefits, will only get you so far. Between tagging and the content, there's the opportunity for another level of classification - brief summaries of content. And that's where Synop.it hopes to find its niche.
While Synop.it's workflow is similar to social bookmarking - find a site and add it to a repository for future reference - the level of detail is quite different. Synop.it doesn't allow the user to tag content. Rather, it offers the opportunity to provide the next level of detail - a short summary of the content.
