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| May 14, 2010 | Evri Shutters Twine, Launches Evri Thing Tech Android App (iPhone Is Next) | Realtime content discovery engine Evri is moving into mobile today with the launch of a tech news reader on Android phones called Everi Thing Tech. It is available in the Android market, and a nearly identical app is awaiting approval for t... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Twine CEO to Startups: Be Modest With Your Money | The semantic web is one of the leading trends we track here at ReadWriteWeb, so it was big news to us earlier this month when Evri announced it was acquiring Twine creators Radar Networks. Following the announcement, Twine CEO Nova Spivack ... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data | Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The announcement was not without its critics, but the Ins... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Windows Phone 7 Series actually looks pretty good | Zune -- along with Expression Blend, Silverlight, Visual Studio and XNA -- may yet save Windows Phone 7 Series. During the kick-off MIX10 keynote earlier today, Microsoft product managers showcased features, development scenarios and, most ... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation | After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team an... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Evri Acquires Radar Networks, Redesigns Semantic Search Website | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Evri, a Web startup focused on semantic search and discovery, announced today it has acquired San Francisco-based Radar Networks, the maker of Twine.com. Financi... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Paul Allen Backed Semantic Service Evri Has Been Acquired (Updated) | Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we’ve learned from a reliable source. The service specializes in extracting the names of people, plac... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Will the smartphone replace the PC in three years? | It's the question to ask after the bold statement made yesterday by Google's John Herlihy. According to Silicon Republic, Herlihy told Digital Landscapes conference attendees that: "In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In ... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | Bing, Google, And The Enigmatic T2: The Race For A Complete Semantic Search Engine | Yesterday, Bing released a surprisingly useful new feature around recipe search. If you search for “Chicken,” you can narrow the results down by “chicken recipes” and then a whole bunch of new filtering options appear down the left-hand col... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | Microsoft isn't losing its consumer edge, it was game over long ago | I disagree with Mark Anderson, writer of the Strategic News Service, about Microsoft's future. Last night, at his 10th annual "Predictions Dinner," Anderson asserted that in 2010 Microsoft would lose "its consumer play. Speci... |
| Dec 5, 2009 | Advertising is the wrong model for the open Web | Some Betanews readers made such excellent comments to yesterday's post, "Can there be a free Web if no one makes money?," I will respond to some of them with another post rather than piecemeal in comments. The current advertising ... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010 | This morning, Microsoft kicked off its 2009 Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Typically, Microsoft times PDC around new operating systems that are testing and launching in the near future. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Twitter Data Dump: InfoChimps Puts 1B Connections Up for Sale | Data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages was released today by a tiny Texas startup company that forward-looking geeks have been watching for a year. Austin-based Infochimps announced this afternoon that it is now selling two import... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Sneak Peek At T2, Twine's Semantic Search Engine | Extracting meaning from the Web is huge project that is very difficult to do at large scale. Keyword search only skims the surface of meaning locked in Web pages. Various semantic search technologies try to go deeper by adding structured da... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | Twine Traffic Falls – New Version Coming, But it’s Make or Break Time | Since it was first unveiled to ReadWriteWeb back in October 2007, Semantic Web application Twine has traveled a rocky road. The product is a knowledge management service, in practical terms similar to social bookmarking site Delicious. Howe... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Chrome OS is futureware, not vaporware | Many of the pundits claiming that Chrome OS will threaten Windows give the wrong reasons. They're not seeing the big picture. Likewise, those people asserting that Chrome OS is no threat to Windows are wrong altogether -- same can be said o... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design | What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. T... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | New Twine interface lets users visualize shared bookmarks | Social bookmarking service Twine attracted a lot of attention as an early poster boy for semantic technology, which it uses to help serve you links customized to your interests. But in addition to delivering smarter bookmarks, Twine just un... |
| May 27, 2009 | Siri: A Powerful Virtual Assistant For The iPhone | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Nova Spivack, CEO of of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine
A new paradigm for using the Internet is about to begin: Virtual Assistants (VA’s) are coming to a mobile device near yo... |
| May 25, 2009 | Connect Your Thoughts To The Mindex With Imindi (Private Beta Invites) | What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. Adam Lindemann learned that the hard way with iMindi, a startup trying to create a “thought engine” that was skewered by our judges at last year’s TechCrunch50. “It almost destroyed us,” sa... |
| May 22, 2009 | Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed | It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times a... |
| May 17, 2009 | Jump Into The Stream | Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages. Web compan... |
| May 8, 2009 | Making Decisions With Machines and People: 3 New Cyborg Q&A Services | The following post was originally titled The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services and ran a week and a half ago. It’s a slow morning around here and we thought readers who missed this the first time might appreci... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services | One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on the idea.
In the following post we take a look at three ... |
| Mar 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3.0, Facebook Privacy Controls, Web-based Books, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we cover the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, review the highlights from Microsoft’s MIX event, look at Facebook’s new privacy controls, check out some... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Twine Could Soon Surpass Delicious, Prepares Ontology Authoring Tool | Nova Spivack’s semantic web company Twine is developing a free service to write and host semantic ontologies; the classification trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context. Ready to play Aristotle and create an ontology o... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
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A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers | Editor’s note:This guest post was written by Aaron Strout and John Cass, two marketing professionals who are monitoring how the semantic web will help companies and marketers help consumers.
What is the semantic web, you wonder? Don’t worry... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | Stephen Wolfram and the techno-dianetics of Google-ology | reader comments 30 with 30 posters participating
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| Mar 8, 2009 | Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big. | Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram. Spivack originally published it on Twine, ... |
| Mar 8, 2009 | Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an electronic brain | Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.
Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years of working in stea... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Twine, explosively growing, is an early success | It hasn’t been long since Twine, a semi-intelligent bookmarking service, launched last October. That means it’s too early to call the company a surefire success. On the other hand, all signs so far are pointing that way: A casual check I re... |
| Dec 26, 2008 | Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies | In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Bern... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Microsoft Live Labs Tackles Web Clips With Thumbtack, Still Needs Polish | Microsoft’s Live Labs has just released Thumbtack, a web clipping service that allows users to compile links, media, and text snippets into online storage bins for future reference. Users can also share their Thumbtack collections with thei... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch – One Year Later | In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we’d check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they’re progressing. What’s changed over the pa... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Platform Blues, Web 3.0, Android Apps, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we analyzed why platforms such as Facebook and Open Social have been a let-down, we looked at a new (perhaps under-appreciated) plat... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Twine's social bookmarking on steroids | Twine untangles beta
Nova Spivack, creator and CEO of Twine, sees that networks based on its users' interests are at what he calls a "tipping point". In the last year, you've seen dramatic growth in this space, with the rise of Fr... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Twine: "We Organize That Shit." | A year after launching its beta, Twine opened up today to the general public with a completely redesigned site. The relaunch got lots of coverage. Maybe you read some of it. Even if you did, you probably still don’t know what Twine does. So... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Twine Launches 1.0 Version – Eyes Facebook, Google Reader, Delicious, Digg, … | When Twine announced itself to the world exactly one year ago, it claimed to be “the first mainstream Semantic Web application”. However despite raising millions of dollars in its quest to bring the Semantic Web to the mainstream, Twine has... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs | Conspiracy theorists will love this one: A computerized assistant that can help you manage your day to day life, built atop an artificial intelligence platform developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the United S... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps? | RDF is the cornerstone of The Semantic Web, yet there still very few commercial RDF apps.
In the latest issue of Nodalities, a magazine about the Semantic Web by UK company Talis, there is an article by Talis CTO Ian Davis about the state o... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | The Future of the Desktop | Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? | You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world – being social is becoming an important full time job.
“Community Manager” is a posi... |
| May 22, 2008 | SemTech Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls | What sort of funding opportunities exist in the budding Semantic Web space? What are VCs looking for and how much are they will to invest? That was the topic of a panel at the SemTech 2008 Conference that just concluded in San Jose.
The pan... |
| May 5, 2008 | Tagging Goes Semantic With Zigtag | Bookmarking and tagging websites can be a messy business. Zigtag, a new sidebar-based plugin currently in private beta, is looking to offer clean and streamlined bookmarking and tagging. The plugin differentiates itself from the multitude o... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | Powerset: Don’t call us a search engine | It appears 2008 might well be shaping up to be the year that semantic technology kicks off: Semantic search engine Hakia has begun licensing its technology, the intelligent organizer Twine is readying for launch, and now natural language se... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | European startups set out their pitches | The TheNextWeb conference happens in Amsterdam next week, and they’ve announced the startups that will be pitching in the startup competition (below). Some 22 companies get to pitch and the last 2 will be chosen by the crowd. A few other no... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | SemanticHacker Offers Cynical Bounty for Semantic Apps | Contextual ad platform Textwise launched SemanticHacker.com today, a contest for applications and business plans built on the company’s semantic analysis technology. While the new API is offered for free, the contest will award three winner... |
| Mar 15, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 10-14 March 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. It’s been a busy week, with a RWW interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, iPhone analysis aplenty, a special look at Web visualization, reviews of Semantic Apps Twine and R... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | Twine Disappoints After Semantic Web Hype | Twine is the most hyped semantic app of the season and recently opened up for some press previews. General availability of this smart, social bookmarking and research tool may come in a matter of weeks.
If that’s the case, it will probably ... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Early Twine review: Twitter meets Wikipedia | We’ve been excited about the prospect of Radar Network’s web app Twine for some time. The application, still in an early beta version, finally opened to press tonight (but not the general public), so I’ve been testing it out for a first-imp... |
| Feb 24, 2008 | Radar Networks Raises $13 Million B Round; Velocity's Ross Levinsohn Joins Board | Semantic Web startup Radar Networks raised $13 million in a B round, led by Velocity Interactive Group. Velocity’s Ross Levinsohn will join the board. Other investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital. The comp... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Twine Raises Millions More for Semantic Web | Radar Networks, the home of the eagerly awaited semantic web app Twine, will announce on Monday that it’s closed another round of funding, including a major investment from the fund lead by Ross Levinsohn, the man who bought MySpace while a... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Radar Networks receives new funding for Twine | Radar Networks, the San Francisco semantic web startup, has received a fresh round of funding for development of its first application, Twine.
New investor Velocity Interactive Group participated in the round, according to Dan Primack at pe... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Semantic Web: Where Are The Meaning-Enabled Authoring Tools? | By Nitin Karandikar Much has been written recently about the concepts, approaches and applications of the Semantic Web. But there’s something missing. In terms of understanding, finding and displaying content, there is no doubt that the Sem... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | BlueOrganizer releases new version of semantic web plug-in | The so called “semantic web” is on its way — or, according to Adaptive Blue CEO Alex Iskold, already here, and just waiting for the right applications to exploit it.
With the latest release of his company’s application BlueOrganizer, a Fire... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Questia founder moves on to stealth semantic startup PeoplePad | In 1998, a young New England lawyer frustrated with the difficulty of library research decided to scan and index every book in the world.
Troy Williams moved to Texas, raised $150 million, and started a company called Questia, and convinced... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Franz, seeking funding, wants to become the foundation for a “semantic web” | Talk of the “semantic web” was deafening late last year, with startups from search engine Hakia to travel organizer TripIt touting specific uses of semantic technology. That trend has continued into this year with fundings. Metaweb got a gi... |
| Jan 14, 2008 | Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M boost | updated
Metaweb Technologies, the San Francisco company developing an open shared database called Freebase to store and edit the world’s information, has just gotten a big boost from Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs.
The two firms have i... |
| 2008 | What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 | Some people say that the bubble’s going to take a downturn in the next year or two – that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) word... |
| Nov 29, 2007 | Semantic Technology In Action: An Interview with Dr. Paul Miller | Each night this week while making dinner, I’ve listened to a different podcast interview with a semantic technology professional. It’s been a fascinating experience and the man I have to think for the education is Dr. Paul Miller, technolog... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch | One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts t... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | A personal assistant for nix | Move over Web 2.0, your successor Web 3.0 is here. Start-up search engines have harnessed a technology that could transform the way websites work: the semantic web.
Simply, the semantic web is where information is stored in a machine-readab... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | TrueKnowledge Demos Its Semantic Search Engine | Venture funded UK semantic search engine TrueKnowledge is unveiling a demo of its private beta today and looks like an interesting site to watch. One cannot help but think of the still-unlaunched Powerset, but it’s also reminiscent of the v... |
| Oct 31, 2007 | Natural language advertising coming: Peer39 receives $8.2M | When we broke the news of peer39’s initial $3 million funding in March, we reported that the company was working on a platform to use natural language processing for advertising. Less than six months later, we’ve learned that the startup ha... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | Evernote wants to be your “outside brain” | Ever wish all your records, business contacts and discussions — in other words, your memory — were filed away in one program? A little-known Windows application called Evernote does just that.
Like ScanR (our coverage), Evernote lets its us... |
| Oct 21, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 15-19 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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| Oct 21, 2007 | What is Web 3.0? It’s Web 2.0 with a brain | This week, we sat down with Nova Spivack (pictured left), the co-founder and CEO of Radar Networks. The company launched its first product, Twine, on Friday.
Twine is a tool that intelligently collects and organizes information like documen... |
| Oct 19, 2007 | The New Era of Semantic Apps | I’m here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O’Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine – see our review here). The pan... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Radar’s Twine: A semantic complement to Google | More than a year of secrecy spawned rumors about Radar Networks. The most popular: It’s a “Google killer.”
Tomorrow morning, San Francisco’s Radar will surprise a few people by launching Twine, a tool for collecting and organizing informati... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? | On Friday Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a “knowledge networking” application. It has aspects of social networking,... |
| Twine | “Twine automatically captures and routes customer intelligence from Sales and CS calls. Everyone’s aligned in minutes, not months.” |
