Well 2008 has been a good year as far as Imindi`s reception with the leading tech blogs has been concerned. We were chosen out of 1000 companies to attend Techcrunch 50 in September and in November we were chosen as one of the 10 semantic apps to watch in 2009.

Hopefully 2009 will be the year where we actually deliver on this expectation and get the only approval that matters, the approval of lots of happy customers!!

But is Imindi a semantic app? Well yes and no. Yes Imindi is definitely an expression of semantic information. The data base that we are building is a three dimension network of subjective human thoughts and the broad semantic relationships between them. However, the semantic web is a vision of creating a machine readable web, making data smarter and making the web - the one machine - more intelligent. From that perspective Imindi is not a semantic web application because our goal could not care less making machines smarter and paving the way for an artificially intelligent web. What we want to do is to use the power of computing and the internet for the purpose of making human smarter, individually and collectively.

This vision of making humans smarter by computers was actually the dream of  pioneers of computer science like Vannever Bush (As we may Think, the Memex), Douglas Engelbart (Augmenting Human Intellect), Ted Nelson ( Hyperlinks) and Alan Kay (Xerox Park, Small Talk, Graphical User Interface Pioneer) and we are steadfastly following in their footsteps.

Anyway, we will be opening up our Private Beta in January 2009 so you can decide for yourself whether we are indeed a semantic web or not.