Apparently different Facebook which is purely a social networking application. This entirely new approach is called "Knowledge Networking" by the company. Sort of like an e-personal assistant which can help to manage your emails, bookmarks, wikis and etc and share or collaborate with people you trust. All great ingredients for a community of practice here as envisioned by Etienne Wenger.
Will this is be the killer application that brings forth the knowledge management to the individuals and their social communities? It may even spark the new phase of Knowledge Management as what Dave Snowden had posted in Whence goeth KM.
Dave said "Finally KM was important in releasing technology from the corporate strait jacket. Most people forget that when KM started computing was still fairly new. The internet was in its early stages, email was not yet universal and the sheet volume of information that is now available was hardly envisaged by other than an enlightened few. The first collaboration software in Lotus Notes was a part of the creation of KM as a discipline and many of the early applications were written in it. It was also user friendly enough that people could start to build their own workflow and collaboration systems. Web sites, HTML etc etc all blossomed around this time and they co-evolved with the emerging ideas of KM to create the distributed, collaborative and information rich environment in which we now live. The last decade had seen technology move from centralised and privileged control to distributed free access and use. KM was and is a part of that."
Well, if Twine or similar products starts to evolve and gains wide acceptance and adoption, we shall then see than KM will definitely bloom in the next couple of years.
See below for some snapshots of Twine:
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