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Radar Networks opens Twine to the world with version 1.0

Radar Networks opens Twine to the world with version 1.0TwineI can't get my head around Twine. I understand what it promises to do, but getting a Twine set up seems a bit clumsy and it seems way too much collaboration is needed to start to get suggestions as to...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, network, Twine, Radar Networks, radar

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Radar Networks opens Twine to the world with version 1.0

Less than a year after its unveiling at last year's Web 2.0 Summit, and a mere eight months after closing a $13 million Series B funding round, Radar Networks' Twine today moves out of beta as a 1.0 Release, open to all comers. The 'Semantic Web' with...

Tags: Network, Radar, Beta, Radar Networks, Twine, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Networking, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round

A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...

Tags: Network, Investment, Radar, Radar Networks, VentureBeat, Spivack, Twine, Nova, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-24

Radar Networks receives more funds for Twine?

Chris Morrison reports on VentureBeat that Semantic Web company Radar Networks has received a fresh round of investment, probably in the order of $15-20 Million. This is less than the $42.5 Million to Metaweb that I mentioned in my last post, but the detail of how much control each company...

Tags: Network, Radar, Radar Networks, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-22

The next big thing: User-contributed metadata

We know all about user-generated content, masses of users contributing to burgeoning Web corpus. It's a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google YouTube, Yahoo Flickr, Fox MySpace, etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative...

Tags: Metadata, Web, Facebook, Advertisement, Metaweb, Radar Networks, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Radar Networks weaves semantic Twine

Radar Networks has finally taken the wraps of its stealthy semantic Web platform. I met with company CEO Nova Spivack earlier this week to get the lowdown on Twine, the first application of the company’s technology. “Twine is a new service for knowledge networking, sharing, organizing and...

Tags: Web, Social Search, Network, Knowledge, Vision, Radar, Information, User, Web Page, Radar Networks, Twine, BlueOrganizer, Powerset, Semantic Web, RDF, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Manufacturing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Metaweb: Creating the world's searchable global brain

One of the stealthy semantic Web startups, Metaweb Technologies revealed its product strategy. According to John Markoffs New York Times story, Metaweb is developing Freebase, "a centralized repository that is more like a digital almanac," in contrast to the distributed card catalog that is the current way Web is searched....

Tags: Search, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Additional Resources

Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks

Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom� that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...

Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Radio Radar 1.1 (Mobile)

Radio Radar helps you find the local station frequencies so that you can quickly tune your radio to the kind of station you want. All the radio tower information comes from a local database. It features offline database for fast and reliable searches, identifies national networks: NPR, KLOVE, and Air1,...

Tags: Mobile, Radio, Kurt Schwartz, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-23

Why PayPal lost this customer over credit card fees policy

I have this event coming up and will be be the funds-collector from people scattered across different locations. Initially, I thought of PayPal as the easy way to go. Boy, was I wrong. Today, thanks to a very poor experience with the company's Web...

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PayPal, eBay Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-19

WiFiFoFum 1.21 (Mobile)

The best mobile WiFi scanner comes to the iPhone. WiFiFoFum scans for 802.11 wireless networks and displays information about each network it detects, including: SSID, MAC, RSSI signal strength, channel, AP mode, security mode and transmission rates. The radar display provides a graphical representation of nearby WiFi access points.Version 1.21...

Tags: Security, Mobile, Aspecto Software, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Scanners, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-07-21

Is the Tour now the best BlackBerry on the market? [video]

Is the Tour now the best BlackBerry on the market? [video]Closed-captionedAre there any closed-captions for this video? I am deaf and can not understand what he is saying.RE: Is the Tour now the best BlackBerry on the market? [video]No mention of the 8900 which includes WiFi. You can't talk about...

Tags: Corporate communications, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, VZW, video, RIM BlackBerry, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Carrier strength drives smartphone selections

Carrier strength drives smartphone selectionsI'd swap 2 and 3, but otherwise agree with the orderThe only dropped calls I've had since switching to Cingular(later bought by AT&T) later turned out to NOT be their signal. There was one spot on a highway near the local airport where I would lose...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., GSM, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Twitter Trust #Fails

There's a big difference between a 'Trust Fall' and a 'Trust #Fail' to use the increasingly tiresome valleygirl slang #word Twitter users assign to stuff that doesn't meet their high standards. A 'Trust Fall' is a trust-building exercise often conducted in turns in...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Metal Sludge, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Micro-presence: changing the 'status' quo

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Donald J. Patterson There is no way that managers and their subordinates see eye to eye on social networking in the workplace.  Why should they?  To employers and employees alike, most social networking sites are...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Donald J. Patterson, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-26

The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadership

The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipmake the GPS manufactures pay a license fee/deviceit's like using the roads...RE: The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipHow about charging a license fee to those who don't pay taxes to maintain...

Tags: Handhelds, Network technology, GPS, GPS satellite program need, satellite, program need, GPS satellite, General Accounting Office, leadership

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked

Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked Why does....The FAA need to have these systems linked to a public facing system? Couldn't they use private networks and segment this stuff from the internet? I just don't understand why there needs to be a connection. I would just like someone...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Linux, ATC, FAA, Linux IS

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War

Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...

Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-30