Cem Basman wrote a great post about ThisIsLike.Com on his blog. Here's the excerpt we especially like:

"[...] Dmitry und ThisIsLike.Com zeigen mir wieder einmal, dass wir alle viel zu webzentrisch und technologisch denken und entwickeln, wo hingegen wenn „Branchenfremde“ unbefangen mit dem Medium frei spielen, wunderschöne originelle Erfindungen entstehen. Ich würde mir mehr Dmitrys wünschen, Bergsteiger, Opernsängerinnen, Kinder, Hausfrauen, Schildermaler, Schlachter… Ja, und Journalisten auch. [...]"

My German is not so perfect, but here's the translation (corrections are welcome): "[...] Dmitry and ThisIsLike.Com show us once again that we all think and develop in a way that's too web-centric and technological. Whereas great and original discoveries also come up when the "strangers in business" start to play freely with the medium. I would like more Dmitrys, climbers, opera singers, children, housewives, painters, butchers... Yes, and journalists also. [...]"

Thank you, Cem! When we developed ThisIsLike.Com, the idea was to move away from the technical and scientific approach. Of course, the software itself is very complicated, we have guru developers, we try to follow the standards. We were inspired by everything from neural networks and semantic web to post-structuralism and contemporary art. But in the end ThisIsLike is for free play. The ultimate goal is to make it work the same way our brain does, and only a small part of it is "semantic". When I think of "blue", I don't think of a color necessarily, it might remind me of a great place I've been two days ago, the sky, or of a wall in my house. Semantic web and ontologies are great, but they are too "digital". We want the web that's more analogue and human.

Read the whole post at Cem's very inspiring Sprechblase blog.