Any person has his own personal life path. A person believes that it is truly unique. However we may find a number of identical things that actually makes us all similar.
There is actually a structure of certain characteristics that describe us. In studying people researchers find that they hold the same structures with only difference – there is a unique image of inside particles.

Going deeper into it we may look at a self-definition pattern that is structured with self-similar parts such as Thinking, Needs, Love, Age, Emotions and Age. Inside each of them we have almost same structure. For example in Thinking we have five basic steps of thinking process. First time this has been described on human DNA by David Hilbers, who claims that all information for the human cells has fractal structure as it is shown on the picture.
So why not to define any person’s life information in a same way as fractals are structured. Inside each part there is a smaller identical part and this might be replicated for all type of information.

Thinking Processes

TO – indicates the purpose or objective of the thinking.
LO – indicates the information available and the information needed.
PO – is the stage of possibility. How do we create possibilities?
SO – narrows down, checks out and chooses from amongst the possibilities. This is the stage of conclusion, decision and choice. This is the result stage.
GO – indicates the ‘action step.’

So if we agree to this categorization, we could create patterns of people acting and experiencing things in a very similar way however remain unique in general.
Now imagine that people can finally find similar people and connect with them directly. This data may boost the research of needs and emotions and form a true social pattern that is impossible to research with mere questionnaires and focus groups. This may be ideal correlation chain where self-similarity is the only connecting particle that make people get interested in each other.

Connection = Self-similarity

Self-similarity based interaction may be a new communication mechanism by which people are getting focused on things that interest them most and are able to share more and more information on that. It is especially crucial in our age of total information overload. This might be the next step in semantic based communication tools.

-Albert

While getting into the depths of self-recognition with core functionality of Youtego, we came across the idea of visual communication to be used inside and even outside of the system. This will be a new communication process based on personal self-definition or self-visualization as we call it:

TegoChannels: the new format for personalized communication based on visually defined Tegos. TegoChannels centralize all expressions and impressions for any given Tego around the subscribers for that Tego. This channel concept is based on a natural idea: we focus on things that we define, so we would naturally like to share our expressions with the subscribers for that particular Tego.

Here is the example: I defined and visualized Tego ‘mediate’. As I subscribe to it (small orange icon on the flip side of the Tego) I see the whole list of subscribers (people that have that same Tego and also subscribed to it). Now when I post new expression on ‘mediate’ be that link to an interesting article or latest yoga book – all the subscribers will receive my message. So from now on all the expressions and impressions are channeled to their owners keeping them connected on the things they defined and visualized in Youtego.

As a new tool for visual communication TegoChannel is perfect for sharing information with any user that created and subscribed to that Tego. Remember – you can subscribe only to Tegos that you define. Here is another example, as I share my experience for “Photography’ Tego my expression will be simultaneously shared with all the subscribers and will be displayed in special TegoChannel page (you reach this page by clicking the name of the Tego on the flip side of it) (www.youtego.com/channel/photography). Similarly if you don’t want to receive any information from outside for any of your Tegos you just don’t subscribe to those Tegos.

TegoChannel page also displays how many of that particular Tego exist in the system: 34 in case of photography. You can also write an expression for that Tego right from the channel page.

You manage all your subscribed channels, type of notifications to receive (email or internal message) all in one place.

And what’s next? Coming up functionality will be integration with Twitter and Facebook, so that all your expressions and impressions will be sent to your Twitter account and/or displayed on your Facebook Wall!

All your feedback and ideas are much appreciated at feedback@youtego.com
In touch,
Artyom

The story of self-recognition is not a fantasy – it is a reality. Recognize your strengths, recognize your passion and you sense this incredible feeling of empowerment and entitlement. The whole idea of self-recognition is about answering one, simple question: what makes me unique? Answer that question, find your passion and be a success!

YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLnZKaGDA3o

All comments and feedbacks are appreciated.

- Youtego Team

An hilarious interview from Aronado at StartupLucky and Artyom Shamtsyan, founder of Youtego.

Public Profile

Now you can share your profile to anyone outside of Youtego. Mine looks like this: www.youtego.com/ego/albert

Google image search tab

We were long waiting to introduce Google Image Search to make more relevant icon search!

Edit profile new design

Eventually we have new design for Edit Profile!

Notification Preferences

In your Edit Profile form, in Preferences tab you can configure your notification settings the way you want.

Waiting for your comments
Cheers
- Albert

Dear All,

We attained another milestone – Youtego Public Beta Release! We move forward and this is the most inspiring feeling you may have while working on something new.
First of all, I would like sincerely and wholeheartedly thank our user community for this fantastic, energetic, proactive, inspiring attitude that they demonstrated right from the first days of Youtego. Really, Youtego is alive because of you and we truly travel this marvelous journey altogether!

You still don’t know what is Youtego? I think these TegoTours created by our most active user community members answer that question perfectly:





Thanks for following and please stay tuned, because this is the beginning – new surprises are coming up!

Kind regards,
Artyom

Youtego is now open for Open Beta!

Dear Friends,
Let’s create a younique buzz for Youtego together!

Join us – people from different countries/nations to say one phrase in a unique way in your language! This will be a short clip that you can shot all by yourself. So there is only one phrase to say – I AM YOUNIQUE – YOUTEGO, but it should be said/shouted/cryed/whispered in any way you want, in any way you feel is younique. We are confident – you will make it! Let’s make youtego experience unique for everyone around the world!

Youtego is a new visual tool for self-visualization in the net. We believe in the concept of “recognize yourself to recognize the world around you”. The concept of self-visualization represents what you believe, feel, know, taught or capable of doing. That concept represents you. The process of self-visualization in Youtego is a combination of semantics (word, phrase) and its visual representation (picture, photo), that you define and associate. Ultimately, you get the combination or matrix of visual objects that you personally defined and visualized. That combination is younique, because you are younique! However the elements of that matrix (we call them tego-s) may match with people’s tego-s anywhere in the world. As a result you start matching with people by elements (tego-s) that you defined and start experiencing this natural feeling that we all, humans possess – discovering the world of people, the world of self-similarities, the world of emotions around you. Aren’t we doing that everyday all our life?

Here is some examples we have got from Youtego Community! :)

And this is the Gift that we have prepared for all participants!

If you are ready to join “Say Youtego” project and inspired to make your unique “Say Youtego” video, please write us to alive@youtego.com.

Thanks a lot
– Albert

Today to be innovative and creative may not be enough. You have to be The Best and work with The Best.

So the idea to cooperate with the Best was our main target when we started iSemantix concept.

At Youtego we think that visual associations are the key attributes for creativity and inspiration especially for professional photographers and designers. So we have decided to involve ones who comprehend this world in a visual way – through lenses of visual patterns and emotional associations. That’s why we think Youtego, being a place where ordinary people search for visual associations for the knowledge and feelings they defined, will be interesting for designers and photographers. Why we think that’s the case? Here are our thoughts on that:

1. Each designer or photographer will have special account that gives you possibility to tag and upload your unique icons directly into Youtego. Similarly, users that enter Youtego may select these younique icons based on their definitions that match with specified tags and voilà – uploaded icons become an element of self-visualization for other users. Isn’t that inspiring?

2. To make that truly inspiring, we have placed designer’s name and a link to any of resources that they would like to share or promote, on the flip side of the icon. So that everyone sees the creator’s name and if interested follows his or her link. Hence people show and appreciate what designers did, because that icon represents them in Youtego!

3. We have many new features coming up. One of them will be self-presentation tour that users create based on Tegos they defined and visualized. Please see this http://www.youtego.com/static/tour to get the idea of self-presentation tour. Similarly, any designers’ icons may be tomorrow displayed in those self-presentation tours all around the world, since those tours will be easily shared throughout Facebook, blogs, Twitter and so on.

4. Another new feature that we are working on is a special plug-in for WordPress to integrate Youtego with any WordPress powered blog. The idea of that plug-in is a new concept of visual tagging that is built from Youtego content. And what is Youtego content? Those are your unique icons ;)

In fact we do hope that any designer and photographer involved will be a community member of Youtego! In Youtego everyone can easily check latest visual associations created by users in Planet section. Of course, we also provide possibility to search for any tag in the system to see what people associate with those tags.

This is opportunity to be the Best for all of us.

iSemantix Concept Presentation from youtego on Vimeo.

Thanks for following.

- Albert

We like to describe things as we see them, feel or experience. The usual way for that descriptive process is our verbally expressed words and phrases. Normally, we have emotional associations with those phrases and we often find it difficult to express them with mere words.

For example a word “dream” or “music” or “love”means different things for each of us. It is associated in a different way because our emotions that we relate to those words are different. As a result is not only the word that matters but also the emotion that we communicate with that word!

Emotions can be expressed with words or pictures – both options are acceptable, but what is truly exciting is a method that includes combination of both. So that a phrase is associated with its visual representation, and both of them, reference to our self. This can be a new way to express the world that we see and feel. The world that represents an infinite number of emotional and visual patterns. The world that reveals uniqueness of you.

Why not to look at the world through those lenses? Why not to make a recognition of ourselves an interesting, emotional and visual journey that has one, true objective – to recognize the word around us? Why not to make an emotional associations a way to find people that truly shares values and feeling as we see and define them?

You can argue that it may not be fully precise. Well, everyone should answer this question on his own. Maybe it is the step towards the highest level in hierarchy of our needs (based on Maslow) – the level of self-actualization – where we finally succeed in recognizing our true potential, our true passion that make us unique in this world.

Thanks for following and here is the video introduction on Youtego – a new way for self-visualization!

Kind regards,
Artyom