Category: Background

Linxpy is not only a powerful bookmark management environment, it also is powered by a ‘serendipity engine’. This engine is based upon the links of others which have strong overlap with your links. On a regular basis Linxpy provides you with one or more recommendations, which you can accept, deny or hide. According to ChatGPT…

The first digital incarnation of Linxpy (alpha version) is the result of almost three decades of deep thinking, inspiring conversations and heavy skunk works. 1998 Invention and high-level business plan. 2001 First working prototype. 2005-2008 Development of interaction concepts. 2015 Research on business models. 2020 Fundamental conceptual extension in order to integrate optional human curation…

The ideas behind Linxpy were born out of frustration with the so-called ‘information tsunami’ causing severe information fragmentation, saturation and overload. We’re drinking from the hose. Furthermore, collecting and managing bookmarks, favourites or links is often a cumbersome activity when you are having hundreds or thousands of them. Linxpy is an adequate solution for this.…

Linxpy (the Otlet edition) is a social bookmark serendipity engine to create, maintain and share self-curated syllabi. Inspiration for this engine comes from the life and work of the information science pioneer Paul Otlet (1868-1944), who was a Belgian visionary thinker, documentalist and peace activist. Otlet played a crucial role in developing early ideas about organizing…

The Engineer: Ronald Vendelmans (co-founder) The Designer: Peter J. Bogaards (co-founder) See also: The history of Linxpy