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Tag: Collective Intelligence

The Global Brain is About to Wake Up

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nova

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.…

Posted in Best Articles, Miscellaneous, Science, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Collective Intelligence, collective IQ, future of the web, global brain, global mind, intelligent web, nowism, real-time, realtime web, Search, the semantic web, the stream, web, Web 2.0, Web 3, Web 3.0, Web 3.0, web future23 Comments on The Global Brain is About to Wake Up

What's After the Real Time Web?

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Nova

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.…

Posted in Best Articles, Science, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Government, Group Minds, Memes & Memetics, Mobile Computing, My Best Articles, Politics, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Society, Software, Systems Theory, The Future, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Transhumans, Web 3.05 Comments on What's After the Real Time Web?

Video: My Talk on The Future of Libraries — "Library 3.0"

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Nova

If you are interested in semantics, taxonomies, education, information overload and how libraries are evolving, you may enjoy this video of my talk on the Semantic Web and the Future of Libraries at the OCLC Symposium at the American Library Association Midwinter 2009 Conference.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Conferences and Events, Interesting People, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Society, Software, The Future, Web 3.0

Video: My Talk on the Evolution of the Global Brain at the Singularity Summit

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Nova

If you are interested in collective intelligence, consciousness, the global brain and the evolution of artificial intelligence and superhuman intelligence, you may want to see my talk at the 2008 Singularity Summit. The videos from the Summit have just come online.…

Posted in Best Articles, Science, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Biology, Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Conferences and Events, Consciousness, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Groupware, My Proposals, Philosophy, Physics, Search, Software, Systems Theory, The Future, The Metaweb, Transhumans, Virtual Reality, Web 3.0

Twine's Explosive Growth

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Nova

Twine has been growing at 50% per month since launch in October. We've been keeping that quiet while we wait to see if it holds. VentureBeat just noticed and did an article about it. It turns out our January numbers are higher than Compete.com estimates and February is looking strong too.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Venture Capital, Web 3.0

Fast Company Interview — "Connective Intelligence"

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Nova

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 connections between content, and between people. This facilitates the emergence of higher levels of collective intelligence.…

Posted in Business, Technology Tagged: Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Systems Theory, The Future, The Semantic Graph, Twine

Interest Networks are at a Tipping Point

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Nova

UPDATE: There’s already a lot of good discussion going on around this post in my public twine.

I’ve been writing about a new trend that I call “interest networking” for a while now. But I wanted to take the opportunity before the public launch of Twine on Tuesday (tomorrow) to reflect on the state of this new category of applications, which I think is quickly reaching its tipping point.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Microcontent, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

New Video: Leading Minds from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talk about their Visions for Future of The Web

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Nova

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 21st Century

Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.

…
Posted in Best Articles, Business, Science, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Conferences and Events, Global Brain and Global Mind, Interesting People, My Best Articles, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, Twine, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Weblogs

The Future of the Desktop

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Nova

This is an older version of this article. The most recent version is located here:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/future_of_the_desktop.php

—————

I have spent the last year really thinking about the future of the Web. But lately I have been thinking more about the future of the desktop.…

Posted in Best Articles, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Mobile Computing, My Best Articles, Productivity, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, The Semantic Graph, Web 3.0

Great Collective Intelligence Book; Includes a Chapter I Wrote

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nova

I highly recommend this new book on Collective Intelligence. It features chapters by a Who’s Who of thinkers on Collective Intelligence, including a chapter by me about “Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of the World Wide Web.”

Here is the full-text of my chapter, minus illustrations (the rest of the book is great and I suggest you buy it to have on your shelf.…

Posted in Best Articles, Business, Science, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Books, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Web 3.0

Artificial Stupidity: The Next Big Thing

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Nova

There has been a lot of hype about artificial intelligence over the years. And recently it seems there has been a resurgence in interest in this topic in the media. But artificial intelligence scares me. And frankly, I don’t need it.…

Posted in Best Articles, Technology, Wild Speculation Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Consciousness, Global Brain and Global Mind, Groupware, Humor, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, My Best Articles, Philosophy, Productivity, Semantic Web, The Future, Web 3.012 Comments on Artificial Stupidity: The Next Big Thing

Powerpoint Deck: Making Sense of the Semantic Web, and Twine

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Nova

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 Attribution License (you can share it with attribution this site).…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Quick Video Preview of Twine

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Nova

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 learning a lot from all the great feedback, and also starting to see some cool new uses of Twine.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

True Knowledge is Cool

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Nova

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 what the next generation of search is really going to look like.…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Software, The Future, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 3.0

A Video and an Audio Cast About Twine

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Nova

Last night I saw that the video of my presentation of Twine at the Web 2.0 Summit is online. My session, "The Semantic Edge," featured Danny Hillis of Metaweb demoing Freebase, Barney Pell demoing Powerset, and myself Demoing Twine, followed by a brief panel discussion with Tim O’Reilly (in that order).…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

What a Week!

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Nova

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 support from the industry, bloggers, the media and potential users.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 3.0

Radar Networks Announces Twine.com

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Nova

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 at the Web 2.0 Summit tomorrow.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Conferences and Events, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Groupware, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, The Metaweb, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Weblogs

Gartner is Wrong about Web 3.0

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Nova

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 fact, quite the opposite is true.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Groupware, Productivity, Search, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Knowledge Networking

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Nova

I’ve been thinking for several years about Knowledge Networking. It’s not a term I invented, it’s been floating around as a meme for at least a decade or two. But recently it has started to resurface in my own work.

So what is a knowledge network?…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Web 3.0 — Next-Step for Web?

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Nova

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.…

Posted in Best Articles, Business, Science, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, Philosophy, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Society, Software, The Future, The Metaweb, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Business 2.0 and BusinessWeek Articles About Radar Networks

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Nova

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 of the value proposition of the Semantic Web in general.…

Posted in Best Articles, Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Search, Social Networks, Software, The Metaweb, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Weblogs

Listen to this Discussion on the Future of the Web

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Nova

If you are interested in the future of the Web, you might enjoy listening to this interview with me, moderated by Dr. Paul Miller of Talis. We discuss, in-depth: the Semantic Web, Web 3.0, SPARQL, collective intelligence, knowledge management, the future of search, triplestores, and Radar Networks.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Group Minds, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, Venture Capital, Web 3.0

A Bunch of New Press About Radar Networks

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Nova

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.
…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Future, The Metaweb, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Radar Networks Profiled in Technology Review

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Nova

The MIT Technology Review just published a large article on the Semantic Web and Web 3.0, in which Radar Networks, Metaweb, Joost, RealTravel and other ventures are profiled. …

Posted in Technology Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, The Future, The Metaweb, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Metaweb and Radar Networks

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Nova

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 in this sector.…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, The Metaweb, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Is it Only Wednesday?

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Nova

Is it only Wednesday? It feels like a whole week already! I’ve been in back-to-back VC meetings, board discussions and strategy meetings since last week. I think this must be related to the heating-up of the "Web 3.0" meme and the semantic sector in general.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Group Minds, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Breaking the Collective IQ Barrier — Making Groups Smarter

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Nova

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.…

Posted in Best Articles, Business, Science, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Group Minds, Groupware, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, My Best Articles, Philosophy, Productivity, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Society, Software, The Future, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Diagram: Beyond Keyword (and Natural Language) Search

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Nova

Here at Radar Networks we are working on practical ways to bring the Semantic Web to end-users. One of the interesting themes that has come up a lot, both internally, as well as in discussions with VC’s, is the coming plateau in the productivity of keyword search.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, The Future, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Envisioning the Whole Digital Person

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Nova

Another article of note on the subject of our evolving digital lives and what user-experience designers should be thinking about:

Our lives are becoming increasingly digitized—from the ways we
communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce
transactions, to our online research.

…
Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Cognitive Science, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Email, Knowledge Management, Microcontent, Productivity, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Intelligence is in the Connections

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Nova

Google’s Larry Page recently gave a talk to the AAAS about how Google is looking towards a future in which they hope to implement AI on a massive scale. Larry’s idea is that intelligence is a function of massive computation, not of “fancy whiteboard algorithms.” In other words, in his conception the brain doesn’t do anything very sophisticated, it just does a lot of massively parallel number crunching.…

Posted in Best Articles, Science, Technology, Web/Tech, Wild Speculation Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Global Brain and Global Mind, Intelligence Technology, Memes & Memetics, Philosophy, Physics, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, Systems Theory, The Future, Web 3.0

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