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"TilePlex is a new site that is looking to create a map for the six degrees of separation, for everyone and everything.\nWith TilePlex, you can find items on the site, and make connections from there.  Connecting items on TilePlex is called \"slinking\" and once you've selected two items to be slinked, jot down a word or two explaining how the items are collected, and you'll get a dynamic, animated representation of your growing tree.  The end result is a \"mosaic\" of related items, from country singers to pretty hair to Hollywood celebrities, to Scientology to babies.  You get the idea.  Every item on TilePlex has its own profile page, so you can see at a glance the mosaic of slinks it has, leave comments, send it along to a social bookmarking site, or subscribe to it via RSS.  Search for more slinks to be added, or choose from the short list of recommendations at the bottom of the page.\nThough they're hard to get to, a user's profile page will display the items they've slinked, along with comments they've left on the site, etc.  There's little interaction amongst users otherwise.  Right now items on TilePlex are those that are on Amazon, though more sources for items will be added soon.  Surprisingly there's no way to purchase these items through Amazon, and there are no bookmarking tools for users to add their own items. It would also be helpful to have a search function present on the pages, as well as the ability to browse by category, which are already predefined within TilePlex's service.\nIn related news, MindMeister  has recently released an API for its mind-mapping tool.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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