Twine goes fully public with next-generation bookmarking
Twine, a bookmarking and knowledge-tracking application developed by Radar Networks, is leaving its closed beta tonight with an array of new features, in hopes of becoming one of the definitive websites of the next generation of the Internet.
Here’s why it might succeed: It hopes to create a web of connected knowledge encompassing the whole Internet, which will start by replacing your bookmarks bar and finish by assembling a modern-day Dewey Decimal System for the cluttered,… Continue Reading
Early Twine review: Twitter meets Wikipedia
We’ve been excited about the prospect of Radar Network’s web app Twine for some time. The application, still in an early beta version, finally opened to press tonight (but not the general public), so I’ve been testing it out for a first-impressions review.
Twine is intended to help its users collect and organize information, acting as a sort of semi-intelligent personal encyclopedia. It’s based on heavy-duty semantic tech developed in-house by Radar — but since it’s… Continue Reading
Radar Networks receives $13M for Twine, plans to start opening in March
The funding round for Radar Networks that we briefly mentioned last week has been officially announced. It turns out that the company took $13 million more, and added Ross Levihnson, the former News Corp. exec and head of Myspace, to its board of directors.
We spoke with CEO Nova Spivack toward the end of the week, and he filled us in on a few more details. Twine, the semantic application aimed at collecting and organizing information… Continue Reading
Radar Networks receives new funding for Twine
Radar Networks, the San Francisco semantic web startup, has received a fresh round of funding for development of its first application, Twine.
New investor Velocity Interactive Group participated in the round, according to Dan Primack at peHUB. We’ve also heard from our own sources that the investment is probably in the $15-$20 million range (no giant, Metaweb-style $40+ million fundings here).
More details are due to be announced next week. Radar previously took a round of about… Continue Reading
Radar’s Twine: A semantic complement to Google
More than a year of secrecy spawned rumors about Radar Networks. The most popular: It’s a “Google killer.”
Tomorrow morning, San Francisco’s Radar will surprise a few people by launching Twine, a tool for collecting and organizing information that’s very different from Google. But it’s potentially just as ambitious.
An example of how Twine works: A user uploads a text document to their Twine account. Twine then parses the document to find the words with meaning —… Continue Reading