What is the Under Cloud?

While the web is a deeply connected shared space, the relational structure of any web page lies in the hands of the authors and not the reader.

What I propose is a web application that allows the reader to create relationships between web pages that goes beyond the hyperlinks within the very web pages they discover and read.

By allowing the reader to create annotated relationships between those web pages they find, they then build a referential catalogue of interlinked web pages that builds towards a store of not just meta data, but meta information, organized chronologically.

Additionally, because this is a social web application, people can share their store of collated, curated and annotated web pages with friends, colleagues and family, or everyone else.

If the web is now the cloud, then we are the curators of information under the cloud.

“Organic Knowledge”

Every business has contained within them a store of what I call Organic Knowledge, and it's within these silos of information and know-how that you differentiate yourself from everyone else.

Problem is, you either forget or take for granted what you know. Under Cloud can help you fix that, by helping you tie those important things together in unique and novel ways, linking them to other external sources.

And once you've started re-factoring your Organic Knowledge, you can quickly begin sharing your discoveries with your colleagues, co-workers and clients alike.

Making connections

Ever been frustrated at not being able to link together the things you find? That article on feminist poetry would have segued perfectly with that piece on a famous woman you read about last week.

Let's face it, no one ever conquered the world from a web page, or from adding a bookmark. But when you have the power to link things together in ways no one else had thought of, that's when things become interesting.

Living information

Think of all those articles you read about that famous politician, during their ascension to power. On that one day, hundreds of people wrote articles about them; opinion pieces the world over.

Or what about the hurly-burly surrounding that tech' start-up that grew out of obscurity and into a global enterprise in just a few years, and the dozens of things you bookmarked during that amazing period.

Topics are living, breathing collections of the things you find. You can sort, sift and shuffle your bookmarks into discrete collections, based on just a few key words, a tag or two, a specific date, a date range, or even a specific domain name.

As you bookmark more of things you find that match those criteria, your topics will grow and grow.

Want to know more?

If you want to know more about Under Cloud and how it could help you manage your business information, why not contact Wayne Smallman right now...