Watch a demonstration video of Primal Fusion
By Robert Barlow-Busch (@becubed)
Posted on March 5th, 2009
For a good orientation to the alpha release of Primal Fusion, view this 6-minute video of our stage presentation at the DEMO conference.
Interested in what you see? Request a free alpha account today to get hands-on with Primal Fusion.
Tags: alpha, DEMO, demonstration, primalfusion, video, walkthrough
March 5th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I looked up for your demo at DEMO.com cos I could not get my account activated. Could not wait to see what the thought network was all about. I had applied for account activation but was not able to get it work… too bad.
I follow your blogs and really love your idea of the semantic web. I am looking forward to contribute around this idea.
Keep up the good work and keep your followers like me updated on your progress.
Regards,
Shreya
March 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Hi Shreya, sorry to hear you had troubles with your account. FYI that Primal Fusion is in private alpha still, so accounts may not be activated immediately; perhaps this is the issue you ran into? If not, I encourage you to post the issue on our support forum. Several folks from Primal Fusion monitor these forums and respond to inquiries ASAP.
March 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Yes… I believe you guys activate only a few accounts at a time. I can wait… thanks
March 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
This is phenomenal. Can’t wait to use it
March 10th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Just out of curiosity: are you using classic and improved text mining algorithms to retrieve related key words?
March 10th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Finally… something to work WITH me.. instead of consume my time. This is exactly how my brain works when I research and I brainstorm. I get very frustrated trying to specifically articulate my thoughts into a google search engine, only to have to sift through completely unrelated material, because of a keyword or ridiculous association or meaning. I cannot wait to test this tool! Thanks Team!!!
March 11th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
This is really cool. Waited too long for such a tool….
March 11th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
This is really cool!!! Like the previous commenter, this is how I also think and try to gather information. I also like the options of doc, web or RSS, and that I can keep track of my own tangents using a combination of these if I wish. It’s also great that I can delete or add topics, pics or whatever, along with adding on more.
I can’t wait to start playing with this!
The only turn-off I have right now is that “thought directed” sounds creepily close to “thought control” ala G. Orwell….Sentient Search Drive???? That’s a minor hitch, considering the scope of this otherwise I-want-to-play-with-this-now!-network.
This, to me, does represent much more closely, the way that creative thinking works and I think that that is it’s utter genius.
Thanks for the demo, and I eagerly await the next,
Karen
March 12th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Looks fascinating. Couple thoughts/questions: can I aggregate content around multiple attributes? You showed a use case about “reputation management” however let’s say I want to have several dependent attributes, i.e. look at content specific to reputation management AND companies that operate in the retail sector AND who operate in the EU?
Secondly… is there any sentiment scoring or similar for aggregated content, so that I may filter down further?
Thanks.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:56 am
This is exciting time. Can’t wait to see more Agents built on the thought network. Keep up the good work, folks.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Hi folks, thanks for all your comments! I’ll address a few here.
@raluca With regards to text mining, I can mention that we’re using a variety of analysis methods for retrieving data. However, what’s unique about Primal Fusion is our underlying technology for semantic synthesis. This allows us to dynamically calculate related concepts in real time, in response to a provided context (currently, a person’s answer to the question “What are you thinking about?”). This topic deserves a proper explanation, so FYI that we’re working on a white paper that explains things more clearly.
@anonymous I hear you! Some of the terminology we’ve introduced around thought networking sounds creepily close to “thought control”. Rest assured that’s not on our agenda.
One motivation for introducing this new idea of thought networking is that we’re taking a different approach towards semantics: instead of trying to “semantify” all the data on the Web, we’re instead helping people to semantify their ideas — which will enable computers to help us more effectively online.
@darcy Aggregating thoughts and content around multiple attributes is possible, though it’s not well supported in our current user interface. We don’t have sentiment scoring as such, but our platform supports some pretty interesting mechanisms for filtering down and exploring relationships — again, these will surface in future updates.
@everyone_else Thanks for your encouraging remarks on the vision for thought networking! It sounds like we’re all motivated by similar frustrations and desires. Please remember that what we’ve launched is a very early alpha release, so it’s only a tentative first step towards that vision. But we’re sharing it now in order to connect with people who’d like to help shape the evolution of thought networking. If that’s you, please sign up for an alpha account and participate in our discussion forum.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Long long do you take to activate the account? I cannot wait to see it working. Its been a while I registered but my account is still not activated.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@shreya It won’t be long! We’re really ramping up our activations today, in fact. We’re prioritizing them in order of when people made their requests, so earlier requests are fulfilled sooner.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:59 am
This looks like a very promising platform. Looking forward to exploring the software (got my activation yesterday). Is there any documentation that provides a definition of a ‘thought network’?
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Definitely progress in the right direction. I like it! Interesting work Fred!
June 1st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Can I give the thoughts collected any structure that Primal Fusion will remember? Or it is only PF that connects topics?
June 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
@Michael, we’re in the process of preparing more information on how the platform works. Looking forward to your feedback on it. In the meantime, a concise definition of a thought network is a consumer-directed semantic network, where the semantic network is based on their abstract thoughts (as opposed to those based on existing knowledge representations such as documents).
@Dory, the current app doesn’t yet allow users to define the structure precisely, but that capability is on our roadmap.
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December 8th, 2009 at 9:51 am
A new video is available, folks! Check out this 60-second introduction to Primal Fusion’s updated alpha, over on our new Products blog.