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Web 3.0 Documentary by Kate Ray – I'm interviewed

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Nova2 Comments

Kate Ray has done a terrific job illustrating and explaining Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web in her new documentary. She interviews, Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, me, and many others. If you’re interested in where the Web is headed, and the challenges and opportunities ahead, then you should watch this, and share it too!…

Is Live Content More Valuable than On-Demand Content?

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Nova

I have started blogging about a new concept that I call The Scheduled Web. The Scheduled Web is the next evolution of the Real-Time Web, in which it will become possible to actually navigate the time dimension of the Web more productively.…

The Birth of the Scheduled Web

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Nova7 Comments

If 2010 was the year of the Real-Time Web, then 2011 is going to be the year that it evolves into the Scheduled Web.

The Real-Time Web happens in the now: it is spontaneous, overwhelming, and disorganized. Things just happen unpredictably and nobody really knows what to expect or what will happen when.…

The Digital Generation Gap

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Nova10 Comments

We exist in a epoch of great technological change. Within the space of just a few generations we have gone from horse drawn carriages to exploring the outer reaches of our solar system, from building with wood, stone and metals to nanoscale construction with individual atoms, and from manual printing presses and physical libraries, to desktop publishing and the World Wide Web.…

Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Nova53 Comments

Today I am announcing that my company, Radar Networks, and its flagship product, Twine, have been acquired by Evri. TechCrunch broke the story here.

This acquisition consolidates two leading providers of semantic discovery and search. It is also the culmination of a long and challenging venture to pioneer the adoption of the consumer Semantic Web.…

A New Layer of the Brain is Evolving: The Metacortex

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Nova24 Comments

The human brain is like an archaeological record. Different layers and functional areas have evolved outwards over time. And now a new layer is evolving. I propose we call this new layer of the brain “the metacortex.” (Note: Metacortex also happens to be the company that Neo worked for in the movie, The Matrix)

The metacortex is the Web — our growing global network of information, people, sensors, and computing devices.…

How Siri Works – Interview with Tom Gruber, CTO of SIRI

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Nova8 Comments

Sneak Preview of Siri – The Virtual Assistant that will Make Everyone Love the iPhone, Part 2: The Technical Stuff

In Part-One of this article on TechCrunch, I covered the emerging paradigm of Virtual Assistants and explored a first look at a new product in this category called Siri.…

Singularity University — Good Progress There

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Nova

Barney Pell invited me to a dinner tonight for the founders, funders, and friends of Singularity University tonight at the NASA Ames campus. I’ve been following the progress of the initiative for some time, via Peter Diamandis, who I’ve known since I attended the International Space University program in 1992.…

The Global Brain is About to Wake Up

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nova23 Comments

The emerging realtime Web is not only going to speed up the Web and our lives, it is going to bring about a kind of awakening of our collective Global Brain. It’s going to change how many things happen on online, but it’s also going to change how we see and understand what the Web is doing.…

Eliminating the Need for Search – Help Engines

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Nova36 Comments

We are so focused on how to improve present-day search engines. But that is a kind of mental myopia. In fact, a more interesting and fruitful question is why do people search at all? What are they trying to accomplish? And is there a better way to help them accomplish that than search?…

Test This Out With Me — Way to Monetize Your Tweets

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Nova6 Comments

I’m testing out a new service that provides a way to make money via Twitter. It’s an insanely viral idea. And they seem to be implementing it tastefully. Quite impressed so far.

I’m going to test it out and see what happens.…

Twine "T2" – Latest Demo Screenshots (Internal Alpha)

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Nova11 Comments

This is a series of screenshots that demo the latest build of the consumer experience and developer tools for Twine.com’s “T2” semantic search product. This is still in internal alpha — not released to public yet.

Twine T2 Demo & Dev Tools (Screenshots Series)

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The Road to Semantic Search — The Twine.com Story

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Nova5 Comments

This is the story of Twine.com — our early research (with never before seen screenshots of our early semantic desktop work), and our evolution from Twine 1.0 towards Twine 2.0 (“T2”) which is focused on semantic search.

A Yarn About Twine — ISWC 2009 Keynote — Nova Spivack

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The Evolution of the Web: Past, Present, Future

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Nova7 Comments

This is a talk I have given many times, on the past, present and future evolution of the Web, and particularly the Semantic Web.

Web Evolution Nova Spivack Twine

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The Web Wide World — The Web Spreads Into the Physical World

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Nova

I have noticed an interesting and important trend of late. The Web is starting to spread outside of what we think of as “the Web” and into “the World.” This trend is exemplified by many data points. For example:

The Web on mobile devices like the iPhone.

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A New Economic Framework for Content in Web 3.0

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Nova2 Comments

(FIRST DRAFT — A Work in Progress. Comments Welcome)

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Print media publications of all kinds — newspapers and magazines –are dying out, as the Web and online advertising take their place. Increasing amounts of what used to be premium content (via paid wire services and databases for example) is now available for free on the Web.…

What's After the Real Time Web?

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Nova5 Comments

In typical Web-industry style we’re all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us call “The Stream,” is not an end in itself, it’s a means to an end.…

Check out Factual

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Nova

My friend Gil Elbaz is launching Factual today. It's a new service that aims to aggregate spreadsheet style data from around the Web to create a vast open database of facts. Interesting stuff. Check it out. Here's the TechCrunch coverage.…

Vote for My Panels & Twine at SXSWi 2010

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Nova

The panel picker for SXSWi went live this morning, and Twine has propsed several submissions. Browsing through the huge list of proposals (over 2200), it’s clear that the Semantic Web will be popular topic at this year’s conference.

With “Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web,” we are planning to offer both an overview of the current state of the technology, as well as a careful look at what needs to be
addressed for semantic search to finally reach its potential.…

The Future of the Web: BBC Interview

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Nova

The BBC World Service’s Business Daily show interviewed the CTO of Xerox and me, about the future of the Web, printing, newspapers, search, personalization, the real-time Web. Listen to the audio stream here. I hear this will only be online at this location for 6 more days.…

The Next Generation of Web Search — Search 3.0

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Nova2 Comments

The next generation of Web search is coming sooner than expected. And with it we will see several shifts in the way people search, and the way major search engines provide search functionality to consumers.

Web 1.0, the first decade of the Web (1989 – 1999), was characterized by a distinctly desktop-like search paradigm.…

Nowism — A Theme for the New Era?

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Nova2 Comments

DRAFT 1 — A Work in Progress

Introduction

Here’s an idea I’ve been thinking about: it’s a concept for a new philosophy, or perhaps just a name for a grassroots philosophy that seems to be emerging on its own. It’s called “Nowism.” The view that now is what’s most important, because now is where one’s life actually happens.…

Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom Gruber

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Nova3 Comments

Sneak Preview of Siri – The Virtual Assistant that will Make Everyone Love the iPhone, Part 2: The Technical Stuff

In Part-One of this article on TechCrunch, I covered the emerging paradigm of Virtual Assistants and explored a first look at a new product in this category called Siri.…

Welcome to the Stream – Next Phase of the Web

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Nova25 Comments

May 8, 2009

Welcome to The Stream

The Internet began evolving many decades before the Web emerged. And while today many people think of the Internet and the Web as one and the same, in fact they are different. The Web lives on top of the Internet’s infrastructure much like software and documents live on top of an operating system on a computer.…

Can We Design Better Communities?

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Nova2 Comments

(DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress)

The Problem: Our Communities are Failing

I’ve been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today.

Our present communites are not working and most are breaking down or stagnating.…

Twine is Now Integrated with Twitter

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Nova

We’ve integrated Twine and Twitter so you can “tweet what you twine” — it’s surprisingly easy and cool. Try it!…

Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It?

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Nova

I am worried about Twitter. I love it the way it is today. But it’s about to change big time, and I wonder whether it can survive the transition.

Twitter is still relatively small in terms of users, and most of the content is still being added by people.…

Web is 20 Years Old – Web 3.0 – Third Decade of Web, Officially Begins

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Nova

The Web is 20 years old this month. The third decade of the Web has started. This means we are officially in Web 3.0 now. Web 2.0 is finished. Read more about this definition of Web 3.0 as the third-decade of the Web, here.…

Wolfram Alpha is Coming — And It Could be as Important as Google

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Nova

Notes:

– This article last updated on March 11, 2009.

– For follow-up, connect with me about this on Twitter here.

– See also: for more details, be sure to read the new review by Doug Lenat, creator of Cyc.…