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Medina @ MIT Media Lab

Medina is a social-networking site based around the idea of exchanging knowledge. The project explores new interfaces for visualizing connections between people and ideas. Knowledge and interests are valuable in and of themselves, but also provide useful structures for traversing the network. The site constantly measures the interactions between people and their interests in order to provide a more accurate picture of what relationships and information are important. The goal is to build an interface that more accurately represents the state of the network.

The word Medina, literally meaning "city" in arabic, is commonly used to describe the original historic part of a Moroccan city. These old historic centers are still extremely active marketplaces. Sociable Media - MIT Media Lab