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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

O'Reilly and Spivack grapple with the Webs

O'Reilly and Spivack grapple with the WebsIdeas on Web 3.0I agree with the writer that associated with the Web 3.0 there are many intertwined ideas and proper distinction between them is not clear. It may very well be as a result of the whole thing being a rather new and...

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Web, Web 3.0, semantics, Spivack

Discussion threads 2007-11-04

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News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Network, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Sales Strategy, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others

On 11 June, Rennsaelaer Polytechnic Institute RPI is hosting a debate to explore the views of luminaries in the evolving Semantic Web. Somewhat unusually, the questions that panellists face will be influenced by "the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world." Anyone can ask a...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Podcast Subject, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Is all publicity good publicity?

There's a well-known saying that all publicity is good publicity, but you have to wonder whether the team over at Radar Networks feel that way this morning. The company is behind Twine, which was unveiled to much fanfare at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit last November. Having...

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

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

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

Who is afraid of the GGG?

Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Network, Relationship, Onus, GGG, Tim, Scepticism, WebTop, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph

Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-22

Talking about that Semantic Web thing

Opinion, to put it mildly, is somewhat divided on the whole Semantic Web thing. Is it the same as 'Web 3.0'? Or is it simply close enough for the distinction to pale into insignificance amongst those who don't see counting angels on the heads of pins as...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-09

True Knowledge enters the semantic search ring

True Knowledge is previewing in private beta a new search engine that deliver answers rather than a list of statistically relevant links as in most search engines. Type in "Is Jennifer Lopez single?," and the engine disambiguates the term "single," and produces a correct, structured response. ...

Tags: Knowledge, True Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Anthony Lilley doesn't seem keen on Web 3.0

With Ian Davis and I packing to join the UK contingent hopping across the Atlantic to this week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it was interesting to see Anthony Lilley's piece on Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in today's Guardian. He's clearly not a fan...

Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Data, Semantic Web, VC, Nova, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

O'Reilly and Spivack grapple with the Webs

I've really enjoyed the recent flow of posts between Talis Platform Advisory Group member Nova Spivack and (not yet a member!) Tim O'Reilly. Through them it's possible to see some of the complex interrelationships between aspects of 'Web 2.0' and the more pragmatic areas of 'Semantic Web' development. 'Web 3.0'...

Tags: Web, Nova Spivack, Tim, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...

Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine

Danny Hillis Metaweb, Barney Pell Powerset and Nova Spivack Radar Networks shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped...

Tags: Web, Data, Powerset, Twine, Freebase, Freebase Database, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-19

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

Coming up: Web 2.0 Summit

Tomorrow the star-studded Web 2.0 Summit gets underway. Co-hosted by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly. I will be blogging from the event over the next few days and trying to figure out, once again, the import of Web 2.0. Thematically, the Summit will focus on the following questions. ...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Semantic Web reading material

I noticed a few interesting posts on semantic Web themes. Jon Udell discusses his test driving of Metawebs Freebase. Stephen Downes give his reasons why the semantic Web will fail good discussion following. Paul Miller interviews Nova Spivack of stealth startup Radar Networks on semantic Web topics. On Read/WriteWeb Phill...

Tags: Semantic Web

Blog posts 2007-03-26

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

From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0)

Nova Spivack of Radar Networks maps out his view of the evolution of the Web over the next 25 years. Nova said he isnt sure about exact dates or technologies on the top end of the map, but his view of ten-year blocks to fully evolve each phase is realistic....

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-02-14