Radar Networks has recently launched Twine, an application that organizes information and connects people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos and photos. Along with Metaweb’s Freebase, Powerset, Hakia, Reuters’ Calias, AdaptiveBlue and a few other start-ups, Radar Networks is trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web. Twine attempts to build a “semantic graph” of relationships between content, tags, people and Twines (the collection of items of an individual or group on the service). Radar Networks CEO Nova Spivack said that each piece of content is a “semantic object” that uses Twine’s underlying ontology and database, which applies semantic technologies such as RDF for storing data.
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