Hands on with Swipp: Compare global opinions in real time

January 28, 2013

The latest contender in social networking emerged from stealth mode this week, offering yet another forum to share and compare opinions in a social stream of your acquaintances and the web at large. Hush-hush development of the Swipp Social Intelligence Network has been going on for two years, but its appearance this week may have been hastened by Facebook's announcement of Graph Search, which like Swipp gathers and shares information about people, places, and things. Swipp offers a graphical representation of its participants' opinions about a variety of topics, such as a movie or a restaurant, a city or a celebrity. Your rating on a 10-point scale (+5 to -5) contributes to a graphical map of those opinions, which can also be sorted by gender, location and other factors. Using Swipp requires a Facebook account, although Swipp's developers are quick to point out the differences between Facebook and Swipp. They say that Swipp gives its users greater control over their own content. Downloading and reusing material, for example, will be easier than Facebook, they say. Swipp's API will be more open, too. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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