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A number of solutions exist for organizing the abundance of available information. Some are as simple as metadata or bookmarking while other practices, like the Dewey Decimal System, are gathering dust. Entrepreneur Matt Brown has been dealing with information organization for the last fifteen years, and recently founded ByteSwap as a result. Through the ByteSwap platform users can store and organize a myriad of information formats including web links, photos, contacts, any file format. Clusters of information can then be shared with other ByteSwap users.
ByteSwap remains a work in progress, but the most recent additions to the service include a "look later queue" for interesting but not imperative links; a list of routine sites available to the public; groups to locate information communities with similar interests; discussion forums; mini-blog; and also a profile section. The core elements of a social networking destination are evident through these add-ons to the primary functions of organization and storage. Visit the company's blog for further updates.
Upon first glance, ByteSwap does not seem to offer any functionality not possessed by a wiki, an enhanced blog format like commentpress, or even the Google suite of applications. For example, "routine sites" appears strikingly similar to a Blogroll and countless emerging companies unite users based on interest groups (there is a new one I've heard of called Facebook :)
If the mission of ByteSwap is to form a repository for information, Wikipedia and connected sites like Wikimedia are dedicated to chronicling large amounts of data in different formats. The wiki's easily editable pages complete with hyperlinks, audio, video, etc are increasingly familiar as well. It will be interesting to see how ByteSwap carves a niche for themselves.