Minding The Planet is Nova Spivack’s weblog on emerging technologies and trends. It focuses ways in which the Web is becoming more present, personalized and precise.
Nova Spivack is a technology futurist, entrepreneur, and angel investor, and a leading voice on search, collective intelligence and the Semantic Web. More...
Just in time for the 4th of July, here is a comprehensive report on sunscreens which may be potentially unsafe to use. Yes, it turns out there are several new ingredients now being used in sunscreens which are not FDA approved and may cause unknown effects on humans. Other sunscreen ingredients paradoxically break down in [...]
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 mainstream press. It also goes into a lot of detail about what Radar Networks is working on.
One point of clarification, [...]
It’s been an interesting month for news about Radar Networks. Two significant articles came out recently:
Business 2.0 Magazine published a feature article about Radar Networks in their July 2007 issue. This article is perhaps the most comprehensive article to-date about what we are working on at Radar Networks, it’s also one of the better articulations [...]
Please join me at the next SF Web Innovators monthly meetup, this Thursday evening in San Francisco.
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Robert Scoble spent 2 hours with us looking at our app yesterday. We had a great conversation and he had many terrific ideas and suggestions for us. We are still in stealth, so we asked him to agree not say much about what we showed him yet. He blogged a very nice post about us [...]
DICE, a company that I helped to acquire and build while I worked as a co-founder of EarthWeb, has announced they are doing a $100M IPO. Great news! That’s two IPO’s for EarthWeb — one as EarthWeb Inc., and now as Dice Inc. After the Internet bubble burst EarthWeb’s content assets were sold and we [...]
We had a bunch of press hits today for my startup, Radar
Networks…
PC World Article on Web 3.0 and Radar Networks
Entrepreneur Magazine interview
We’re also proud to announce that Jim
Hendler, one of the founding gurus of the Semantic Web, has joined our technical advisory board.
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Hey everyone, it’s that time of the month again — yes, you guessed it, the monthly SFWIN meetup (San Francisco Web Innovators Network). Come join our high-quality network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, techies, and vendors for an evening of conversation, food and drinks in San Francisco (the Orrick Building). It’s close to transit and there’s [...]
There are thousands of promising drugs for treating diseases that are simply not getting studied or brought to market because they are derived from natural or common substances that can’t be patented. The dirty little secret of the pharma business is that even a miracle cure for cancer won’t be invested in if it can’t [...]
This is just a brief post because I am actually slammed with VC meetings right now. But I wanted to congratulate our friends at Metaweb for their pre-launch announcement. My company, Radar Networks, is the only other major venture-funded play working on the Semantic Web for consumers so we are thrilled to see more action [...]
I’ve been thinking since 1994 about how to get past a fundamental barrier to human social progress, which I call “The Collective IQ Barrier.” Most recently I have been approaching this challenge in the products we are developing at my stealth venture, Radar Networks.
In a nutshell, here is how I define this barrier:
The Collective IQ [...]
VC interest in my startup, Radar Networks has suddenly ignited in the last two weeks. We were planning to wait before shopping our deal, but I guess the app speaks for itself. VC’s have been coming over pretty much non-stop this week. I don’t know who is telling them about us. But anyway, if you [...]
Hey just a reminder — please join us at the monthly SFWIN meetup in San Francisco tomorrow (Thursday) evening. So far, there are around 40 people RSVP’d including several VC’s, demo companies, and early stage startups, and as always, good food and drinks too. Should be a good event, hope to see you there — [...]
Just a reminder that the next SFWIN mixer is this Thursday at 6pm.
Please RSVP so we know how many people to get food and drinks
for!
If you’ve never been to an SFWIN event before you may not know what
to expect. Each SFWIN is a great opportunity to discover new potential partners,
see new companies and technologies, find [...]
The folks at Read/Write Web have a great analysis of AOL’s recent move to support the OpenID initiative. AOL has integrated with OpenID, adding 63 million users in a bid to make AIM handles sticky.
Digg also just announced they are joining OpenID.
OpenID is one of the technologies that I am tracking as a key [...]
Tom Hayes has an interesting post in which he coins the word ‘beme" to mean a meme that spreads in the blogosphere.
Michael Malone’s ABC News column on Thursday mentioning "bemes" has certainly produced a lot of interest. Originally, I coined the word beme
to describe a meme propagated by blogs and bloggers. Now I can [...]
It’s been a while since I posted about what my stealth venture, Radar Networks, is working on. Lately I’ve been seeing growing buzz in the industry around the "semantics" meme — for example at the recent DEMO conference, several companies used the word "semantics" in their pitches. And of course there have been some fundings [...]
Hey I’m at DEMO this week. If you’re here too and you want to chat, drop me a line.
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My startup company, Radar Networks, has been busy working in stealth on the next-generation of the Web (sometimes called "Web 3.0"). We’ve been quietly growing and putting the pieces in place all year. Today we are celebrating the opening of our new, much larger office at 410 Townsend in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. [...]
Where do I sign up to support this initiative? A group of exasperated US airline passengers who were stuck on the tarmac for 10 hours last month have come up with a proposal for a bill to establish a Passenger’s Bill of Rights, which would include the following provisions:
Establishing procedures for airlines to return passengers [...]
A new "miracle drug" appears to cure many types of cancers in a novel way. But the catch is no pharmaceutical company will fund research in it because it can’t be patented! Maybe it’s time to start a government agency or a non-profit that funds research and development, and distribution of, wonder drugs that are [...]
Hey everyone, please RSVP if you are planning to come to the first SFWIN event of the year, in San Francisco — this Thursday, January 18. SFWIN is a gathering of technologists. There are about 200 people in the network and about 50 to 80 usually show up at each event. Please help get the [...]
KurzweilAI.net has published an article I wrote redefining the meaning of Web 3.0. Basically, I am proposing that Web 3.0 include a set of emerging technologies that are all reaching new levels of maturity at the same time.
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The SFWIN (San Francisco Web Innovators) holiday meetup is this Thursday, Dec. 7 — Please join us! We’re celebrating one year of SFWIN events. We’re teaming up with the folks from SFBETA for this event and we’ve got a max limit of 175 attendees, so you must RSVP — it’s filling up fast. Hope to [...]
Wow — there has been quite a firestorm over the term Web 3.0 on the blogosphere today and yesterday. While I am remaining neutral, I also have an open mind regarding what it could be defined to represent. Here are some random thoughts towards defining term:
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I’ve read several blog posts reacting to John Markoff’s article today. There seem to be some misconceptions in those posts about what the Semantic Web is and is not. Here I will try to succinctly correct a few of the larger misconceptions I’ve run into:
The Semantic Web is not just a single Web. There won’t [...]
A New York Times article came out today about the Semantic Web — in which I was quoted, speaking about my company Radar Networks. Here’s an excerpt:
Referred to as Web 3.0, the effort is in its infancy, and the very
idea has given rise to skeptics who have called it an unobtainable
vision. But the underlying technologies [...]
The CEO of MySQL, Marten Mickos, gave a talk this morning at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on his vision for a "great database in the sky" in which all data would be open and accessible on the Web (running on MySQL servers of course!).
In his talk, without mentioning the Semantic Web, [...]
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The next SFWIN (San Francisco Web Innovators) monthly networking event is happening this Thursday at 6PM in downtown San Francisco at the offices of Orrick, a law firm with a very nice event space overlooking the skyline. We usually have around 100 people or so and delicious food and an open bar. You can get [...]