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- andyduncan, on 10/19/2007, -1/+8My head just asploaded from all the ***** jargon.
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/19/2007, -0/+4It's partly your fault now.
- JoeNapalm, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4It's SkyNet! Auuugh!
-Jn- - jackyyll, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3Apparently their servers are held together with twine :p
- units, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3'Spivack had an interesting term for what Twine is doing with Semantic Web technologies, riffing off the Facebook Social Graph. Spivack is calling Twine a "Semantic Graph", which he says will map relationships to both people and topics.'
It's not 'riffing off the Facebook Social Graph', all Semantic Web knowledge representation formats to my knowledge are based in a triple format (subject, property/verb, object), which maps directly to a directed graph format, where properties are edges, and subjects and objects are vertices, so anything calling itself 'Semantic' (capital S) is inherently utilizing Semantic Graphs. These concepts all predate Facebook entirely, by the way. - Phocion55, on 10/19/2007, -2/+5Anxious for a beta invite. The key to the success of semantic web are a few interesting apps that will show people its amazing range of capabilities.
Hopefully this is one of them. - Phocion55, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3Have you tried the beta yet?
- conradovina, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2Cool app! I wonder who will buy it. Google, Yahoo... Facebook's first acquisition?
- Phocion55, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2Supposedly this is driven on some sort of semantic framework like RDF, RDFS, OWL, etc. That's new in itself.
- Phocion55, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2So essentially he's patenting the exact idea of semantic web? Can he do that?
- MtheoryX, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2That sounds retarded. Think about what you just said. You pretty much destroyed the whole point of RSS in one fell, ill-informed, swoop.
- jesuswuzanalien, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2I for one welcome our Web 3.0 overlords.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1No, it's TwineNet.
- mikos, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1How is this different from Freebase - launched by Danny Hillis' Metaweb?
- jackyyll, on 10/19/2007, -1/+2Too bad twine.com takes 2 minutes to load :/
- jackyyll, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Holy *****! You're inventing a porn search engine!
- waynesutton, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1any beta invites to share?
- Sparser, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1Actually, its funny you mentioned that because that is EXACTLY what I'm working on right now. Unfortunately I'm only one man (RCG) and I only have so much free time, but by the time I'm done every single web developer on here will want to strangle me because my project is so brilliantly obvious.
- Fant, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2"Spivack had an interesting term for what Twine is doing with Semantic Web technologies, riffing off the Facebook Social Graph. Spivack is calling Twine a "Semantic Graph", which he says will map relationships to both people and topics. So Twine's Semantic Graph actually integrates the Social Graph. Spivack said that his company has patents pending on this."
Buried for patent b*llsh*t. - Chirp08, on 10/19/2007, -0/+0Sounds like a company that is advertising the "internet"
twine = facebook + wikipedia + google + digg
Just because you can combine everything into one spot doesn't mean people want that, most people like having things seperate, i would much rather have 4 sites to visit to get my fill of the internet than 1 site. - HerrEisenheim, on 10/19/2007, -2/+2An interesting idea, but it seems far too complex. It's like Digg on crack.
- Kailash.Nadh, on 10/20/2007, -1/+1Yep, thats what we need. More and more and more social news, information, bookmark sharing platforms :-s
- viral612, on 10/19/2007, -0/+0Semantic Web Application
- behroozv, on 10/22/2007, -0/+0soo funny, you have to give these guys some credit for their Marketing and building this kind of hype around a product that really doesn't seem too exciting.
People automatically get intrigued with a new company if it has the following elements:
1. Some big name VC guy(s) behind it
2. 'Web 3.0' thrown in there somewhere (BSSS)
3. 'Patent pending' (which doesn't mean anything)
4. A jacked up process that no one really understands, that keeps the people guessing
We have seen way too many of these startups come and go. The 'Hype' can only take you so far, to go all the way you have to build products that are clear, helpful, functional, and to the point. - mitjai, on 02/05/2008, -0/+0This is great but there is much more you can do with auto inserting data, gathered from net.
- units, on 10/19/2007, -1/+0Also, this is all a Web 2.0 version (read: high-contrast logo, rounded edges) of several other projects already out there, like OntoWiki:
http://ontowiki.net/Projects/OntoWiki - moonlonely, on 10/19/2007, -2/+1There's an interview with Radar Networks/Twine founder Nova Spivack here: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/10/19/twine-a-so ...
- lauriehin, on 10/19/2007, -1/+0Yeah, all we need, more and more social news and uninteresting tidbits....fantastic!
- Tyr7BE, on 10/19/2007, -3/+2So......facebook for wiki pages?
Meh. I knew something with a sensationalist title like 'semantic web' would be a non event. - fLUx1337, on 10/19/2007, -5/+3Sounds like a big yawn to me...
These new startups/web-apps recently just seem like they were made because the developers couldn't think of anything better.
Honestly, I don't know what could be next, but Digg, Twitter & even Wikipedia brought something NEW........thats what we need more of.
But I tell you, the next big idea, which ends up being as big as Digg one day, will be simple, and every damn web developer capable will kick themselfs for missing it, thats how it works ;)
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