Web 3.0 — Next-Step for Web?
The Business 2.0 Article on Radar Networks and the Semantic Web just came online. It’s a huge article. In many ways it’s one of the best popular articles written about the Semantic Web in the...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Social Operating System
In recent months we have witnessed a number of social networking sites begin to open up their platforms to outside developers. While this trend has been exhibited most prominently by Facebook, it is...
View ArticleDBpedia.org is Among the Coolest Semantic Web Datasets I've Seen
I’ve been poking around in the DBpedia, and I’m amazed at the progress. It is definitely one of the coolest (launched) example of the Semantic Web I’ve seen. It’s going to be a truly useful resource to...
View ArticleOpen Source Projects for Extracting Data and Metadata from Files & the Web
I’ve been looking around for open-source libraries (preferably in Java, but not required) for extracting data and metadata from common file formats and Web formats. One project that looks very...
View ArticleGartner is Wrong about Web 3.0
I have a lot of respect for the folks at Gartner, but their recent report in which they support the term "Web 2.0" yet claim that the term "Web 3.0" is just a marketing ploy, is a bit misguided. In...
View ArticleRadar Networks Announces Twine.com
My company, Radar Networks, has just come out of stealth. We’ve announced what we’ve been working on all these years: It’s called Twine.com. We’re going to be showing Twine publicly for the first time...
View ArticleWhat a Week!
What a week it has been for Radar Networks. We have worked so hard these last few days to get ready to unveil Twine, and it has been a real thrill to show our work and get such positive feedback and...
View ArticleIs Google Making Social Networking Middleware?
Google’s recent announcement of their OpenSocial API’s appears to be a new form of middleware for connecting social networks together. But it’s too early to tell, since the technical details are not...
View ArticleTrue Knowledge is Cool
The most interesting and exciting new app I’ve seen this month (other than Twine of course!) is a new semantic search engine called True Knowledge. Go to their site and watch their screencast to see...
View ArticleQuick Video Preview of Twine
The New Scientist just posted a quick video preview of Twine to YouTube. It only shows a tiny bit of the functionality, but it’s a sneak peak. We’ve been letting early beta testers into Twine and we’re...
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Powerpoint Deck: Making Sense of the Semantic Web, and Twine
Now that I have been asked by several dozen people for the slides from my talk on "Making Sense of the Semantic Web," I guess it’s time to put them online. So here they are, under the Creative Commons...
View ArticleFirst Full Online Demo of Twine
Scoble came over and filmed a full conversation and video demo of Twine. You can watch the long version (1 hour) or the short version (10 mins) on his site. Here’s the link.
View ArticleA Nice Video Intro to The Semantic Web for Non-Geeks
Question: What do you do if you’re not a computer scientist but you are interested in understanding what all this Semantic Web stuff is about? Answer: Watch this video!
View ArticleVideo of My Semantic Web Talk
This is a video of me giving commentary on my "Understanding the Semantic Web" talk and how it relates to Twine, to a group of French business school students who made a visit to our office last month....
View ArticleMy Commentary: Radar Networks Raises $13M for Twine
I am pleased to announce that my company Radar Networks, has raised a $13M Series B investment round to grow our product, Twine. The investment comes from Velocity Interactive Group, DFJ, and Vulcan....
View ArticleMy Visit to DERI — World's Premier Semantic Web Research Institute
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit, and speak at, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), located in Galway, Ireland. My hosts were Stefan Decker, the director of the lab, and...
View ArticleA Few Predictions for the Near Future
This is a five minute video in which I was asked to make some predictions for the next decade about the Semantic Web, search and artificial intelligence. It was done at the NextWeb conference and was a...
View ArticleAssociative Search and the Semantic Web: The Next Step Beyond Natural...
Our present day search engines are a poor match for the way that our brains actually think and search for answers. Our brains search associatively along networks of relationships. We search for things...
View ArticleNew Video: Leading Minds from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talk about their...
Video from my panel at DEMO Fall ’08 on the Future of the Web is now available. I moderated the panel, and our panelists were: Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the...
View ArticleFast Company Interview —"Connective Intelligence"
In this interview with Fast Company, I discuss my concept of "connective intelligence." Intelligence is really in the connections between things, not the things themselves. Twine facilitates smarter...
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