Knowledge: The Intersection of Truths and Beliefs
Discovering Beliefs
A lot of thought, time and money has gone into the 'knowledge discovery' space. At Circos we too are investing in this area but we are tackling the problem from a different perspective. Many companies organize information/facts/truths and allow people to access those 'truths', process it, and draw conclusions. It has long been a goal of these companies to turn information into knowledge and organize/manage that knowledge. At Circos we are starting with the 'beliefs' about 'things', we add in the 'truths' about 'things', then we empower people to find knowledge. The technology has been developed (it works) and will be launched as a consumer Internet application in Q108.
Plato is cited as the originator of the thesis depicted above. Our thesis goes goes like this: there are many more beliefs about things than there are facts about things. So the picture above (from wikipedia) is way off scale and the market for discovering, scoring, and providing access to beliefs is huge.
UPDATE - This (arguably) is a better depiction of our thesis.
