Twine: The Social Graph Meets the Semantic Web

With the explosive growth in social networks do we know more or are we just more connected? What would happen if the “social graph” was made part of a much richer semantic network of people, information, typed-objects, and relations? Could you then tap into what your friends know and easily connect with others to learn about and pursue new interests?

We’ll discuss and demo an innovative new service: Twine.com, built on a semantic web platform and designed to grow and enrich communities of interest. Users of Twine.com create, collect, and share information such that all users benefit from a growing network of knowledge. Semantics are used throughout as the system automatically annotates information with meta data, tags, and relationships.

Finally, through the release of a public API, Twine.com will be opened up to other developers and publishers furthering the development and linking together of new applications and services based on the semantic web.