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.
Lew Tucker is CTO at Radar Networks, which recently launched Twine.com. Before joining Radar Networks, he was the driving force behind the development of the AppExchange at Salesforce.com and was a VP at Sun Microsystems with responsibilities for all of Sun’s internet properties. Joining Sun in 1994, Lew was early member member of the JavaSoft executive team and one of the first Java evangelists.
Lew has a Ph.D. in computer science and a background in parallel algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine architecture and neurobiology, and was director of research at Thinking Machines where he developed machine learning algorithms for the massively parallel Connection Machine.
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