Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

Microsoft’s Astoria project has decided to make RDF a lower priority and is not supporting it for now. So much for Microsoft participating in the Semantic Web. The Astoria project page describes the project thusly: The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be [...]

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 everyone. If you haven’t heard of it yet, check it out! Related Posts:A Few Predictions for the Near [...]

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? I define a knowledge network as a form of [...]

Peter Royal got me interested in GRDDL recently. It looks like something we may want to use here at Radar Networks for scraping data from the Web and turning it into RDF triples. After doing a little digging around lately, I’m wondering if there is a list of sites that support GRDDL yet? Or any [...]

I’m sitting the Dynasty Lounge in Taipei, enroute to Singpore where I will be addressing ministers of the government there on the potential of the Semantic Web. Singapore is a very forward-looking country and they have some very exciting new initiatives in the works there. After that I hope to have a little time for [...]

Web 3.0 — aka The Semantic Web — is about enriching the connections of the Web. By enriching the connections within the Web, the entire Web may become smarter. I  believe that collective intelligence primarily comes from connections — this is certainly the case in the brain where the number of connections between neurons far [...]

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 [...]

I met today with Jim Wissner, Chief Architect and co-founder of my company, Radar Networks. Jim started the company along with me and Kris Thorisson several years ago when we were just a few guys doing futuristic R&D. Jim has been working for a few months on a "secret project" in his spare time, and [...]

Danny Ayers has posted some good general guidelines for Web 3.0 system builders. I’ve commented on the thread on his post, so I won’t add too much more here. But it’s a good set of guidelines for the best-practices of building sites and services for Web 3.0 — the Data-Web. Related Posts:Meet Me at the [...]

I really liked this post. A brief explanation of the value of the Semantic Web for organizing the world’s collective knowledge. Related Posts:Twine "T2" – Latest Demo Screenshots (Internal Alpha)Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom GruberVideo: My Talk on The Future of Libraries — "Library 3.0"Fast Company Interview — "Connective Intelligence"Associative Search and [...]

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 [...]

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. Related Posts:Radar Networks Announces Twine.comWeb 3.0 Roundup: Radar [...]

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. Related Posts:Radar Networks Announces Twine.comWeb 3.0 Roundup: [...]

This article on XML.com is a very good summary of the benefits of RDF and SPARQL — two of the key technologies of the emerging Semantic Web. Related Posts:A Few Predictions for the Near FutureMy Visit to DERI — World's Premier Semantic Web Research InstitutePowerpoint Deck: Making Sense of the Semantic Web, and TwineTrue Knowledge [...]

The SF Chronicle just did an interview with Chris Jones, of my startup, Radar Networks. Here’s the link. Related Posts:Twine "T2" – Latest Demo Screenshots (Internal Alpha)Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom GruberTwine's Explosive GrowthFast Company Interview — "Connective Intelligence"Interest Networks are at a Tipping Point

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. Related Posts:Web 3.0 Roundup: Radar Networks, Powerset, Metaweb and Others…How the WebOS Evolves?Radar Networks Announces Twine.comQuick Video Preview of TwineDiagram: Beyond Keyword (and Natural Language) Search

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 [...]

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. Perhaps it is also due to the coverage we got [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been saying for quite some time that the first thing the Semantic Web will accomplish is “doing for data what HTML did for documents.” HTML made it possible for everyone to publish, access and connect documents on the Internet. RDF and OWL — the languages of the Semantic Web — make it possible to [...]

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. As the Web gets increasingly large and complex, keyword [...]

Editor’s NOTE, February 27, 2007: I guess this post must have helped. The Wikipedia has reinstated a page about Web 3.0 and hopefully it will improve over time. Thanks if you helped argue the case. Someone at Wikipedia has repeatedly deleted the Web 3.0 page and locked it — they’ve done this despite the fact [...]

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 [...]

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. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster, we are doing more [...]

Nice article in Scientific American about Gordon Bell’s work at Microsoft Research on the MyLifeBits project. MyLifeBits provides one perspective on the not-too-far-off future in which all our information, and even some of our memories and experiences, are recorded and made available to us (and possibly to others) for posterity. This is a good application [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here is my timeline of the past, present and future of the Web. Feel free to put this meme on your own site, but please link back to the master image at this site (the URL that the thumbnail below points to) because I’ll be updating the image from time to time. This slide illustrates [...]

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. [...]

A few days ago my CTO, Lew Tucker, participated in the SD Forum’s panel on the semantic web — Shrinking the Meaningless Web. Related Posts:Twine "T2" – Latest Demo Screenshots (Internal Alpha)Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom GruberTwine's Explosive GrowthFast Company Interview — "Connective Intelligence"Interest Networks are at a Tipping Point