Conversant Release on Monday
Macrobyte is gearing up to release Conversant on Monday. Conversant is already available as a hosted solution (with emphasis on solution there, as in “to all of your web management problems”), but this release will allow people to run it on their own servers under Radio.
Okay, the main reason my web sites are successful is because I put in an obsessive amount of hours, but in a close second is Conversant’s flexibility and power.
The other day I received an e-mail out of the blue from someone at a foundation with a lot more funds and time than I have who was extremely impressed with the enormous amount of cross-referencing of information at my AnimalRights.Net site.
Over the past five years I have written in excess of 300,000 words on the animal rights movement in over a thousand separate articles. Trying to organize and cross-reference that information is rendered simple by Conversant’s extremely powerful and easy to use metadata tools.
So I have a massive FAQ area which currently lists well over 200 separate organizations, topics, and individuals. Each article is tagged with metadata in a process that takes about five seconds so that the software automatically generates topical pages that list all the articles related to, say, PETA.
Look, for example, at this article I wrote about PETA a few weeks ago. There on the right is a nice dynamically generated box that lists related topical pages that cover things mentioned in this story.
So someone who reads this story but knows little about Craig Rosebraugh can immediately click on his name in that “Related Topics” box and learn more about Rosebraugh.
I haven’t implemented it yet, but it will be rather trivial to included such a box on the Craig Rosebraugh page that lists related topics for him as well.
Boom — instant hypertext knowledge web.
I receive a lot of e-mail from people who are new to my site who do not realize that the site is run by a single person in his spare time. They assume their must be some large organization or foundation behind it.
Nope, just little old me and Conversant.
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May 17th, 2002
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