Twine (social network)
Type of site | Public semantic web service |
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Created by | Radar Networks |
URL | twine.com |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | October 19, 2007 |
Current status | Inactive |
Twine (at Twine.com) was an online
Twine combined features of
Site description
Twine serviced
Twine was a social network and its users could add contacts, send private messages and share information. Users could collaborate on collecting data through private or public twines; data collections focused on a certain topic, such as politics.[8]
Data could be imported to Twine's website through conventional uploading of files, writing text with a
Information discovery was mostly done through a user's main page where items appeared, organized by the twine they belonged to. Twine also used machine learning technologies that used semantic metadata to learn and generate more relevant, automatic information recommendations of possible interest to the user.
History
Radar Networks remained in stealth mode until October 19, 2007, when Twine was announced and limited invitations were handed out for
On March 11, 2010, the search engine Evri Inc. announced the acquisition of Radar Networks and Twine.com.[2]
On October 5, 2012, Evri laid off much of its staff and shut down its commercial offerings, including evri.com[10]
See also
- Freebase (database) — Online semantic database
- Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- Semantic Web
- Web 2.0
- Web Ontology Language (OWL)
References
- ^ a b c Erica Naone (2008-09-21). "Untangling Web Information". Technology Review. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ a b Evri Inc. (2010-03-11). "Evri Announces Acquisition of Twine, Relaunches Consumer Site". Archived from the original on 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
- ^ Rafe Needleman (2008-03-07). "Twine: The Semantic Web Takes Shape, with Twine". Cnet news. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ John Markoff (2006-12-11). "Entrepreneurs See Web Guided By Common Sense". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ a b Tim O'Reilly (2007-10-18). "Web2Summit: Radar Networks Unwinds twine.com". O'Reilly Radar. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
- ^ W3C Semantic Web FAQ
- ^ Michael Copeland (2007-03-07). "Web 3.0: No Humans Required". CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- ^ Sarah Miller (2008-02-03). "An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
- ^ Dan Farber (2008-07-31). "Radar Networks readies new release of Twine". Cnet news. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ Cook, John (October 5, 2012). "Paul Allen-backed news aggregator Evri calls it quits". GeekWire.