October 2008: The Semantic Web Gang discusses the launch of Twine
In October’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, a full complement of regulars is joined by Radar Networks‘ CEO Nova Spivack and Chief Architect Jim Wissner in a discussion of Twine.
Unveiled at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2007 and released in beta earlier this year, version 1.0 of Twine was opened to the world toward the end of October, and widely reported (see my coverage on ZDNet here, for example.)
In this discussion we touch upon the purpose of Twine, review the first few days of live operation, and then focus upon the team’s plans for the future.
When originally announced, Twine was closely associated with the Semantic Web, although the company’s current marketing is less quick to make that link. In conversation we discover more about priorities for the 1.0 release and dig into some of the ways in which semantic technologies will play an increasingly important role moving forward.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- Calais
- compete.com
- Freebase
- Glue
- ISWC
- Metaweb
- Movable Type
- OWL
- Powerset
- Quantum Computer
- Radar Networks
- RDF
- ReadWriteWeb
- Semantic Web Challenge
- SIOC
- Siri
- SPARQL
- Twine
- Web 3.0 Conference
This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 October, 2008.
