Otavo, pioneering the intentional web revolution.

Michael Arrington at Techcrunch Wrote:

Ontario based Otavo is in the final couple of weeks of private beta testing and will be launching in May. I have been testing the service for a few days.

It is a new social bookmarking site with an interesting twist. Users can group tagged bookmarks under “quests” which are public search/research tools. Pete Cashmore saw it in March and calls it collaborative web search. I think that, like Wink, it shows the power of user generated tagging to produce good search results. Once the knowledge base is populated, many people could use this as a resource, and link to individual quest pages.

If you are interested in trying it out before launch, enter your email on the home page.

While Otavo has similarites to successful social bookmarking models it is quite different.

Otavo’s core concept is to organize your information on intentions (we call quests) instead of tags. Tags are used as a secondary organizer.

What’s the difference between Tags and Intentions?

Tags are categories. As categories, a tag does not store HOW or WHY you would use the information tagged, just where it belongs in the grand scheme of things.

Intentions store HOW and WHY you want to use the information.

This allows users to organize information for a specific purpose instead of just filing it like a librarian.