Minding the Planet

Watch My best Talk: The Global Brain is Coming

Nova — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:16 -0500

I've posted a link to a video of my best talk -- given at the GRID '08 Conference in Stockholm this summer. It's about the growth of collective intelligence and the Semantic Web, and the future and...

The World is the Web

Nova — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:16:56 -0500

I've posted a new article in my public twine about how we are moving from the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World. It's about how the Web is spreading into the physical world, and what this means.

New Video: Leading Minds from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talk about their Visions for Future of The Web

Nova — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:29:47 -0500

Video from my panel at DEMO Fall '08 on the Future of the Web is now available. I moderated the panel, and our panelists were:Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the...

Let's Move Their Market Caps By Several Hundred Million! -- My Panel

Nova — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:00:52 -0500

I'm moderating a panel at the upcoming DEMOfall 2008 conference this year on Where the Web is Going. I've assembled an all-star cast of panelists, including: Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of...

Please Vote for Twine! Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards

Nova — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:33:33 -0500

Great news. Twine is a finalist in the Industry Standard’s Innovation 100 Awards. Twine / Radar Networks was chosen as a finalist in the community category. There will be one "winner" in each...

Follow Me on FriendFeed

Nova — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:35:34 -0500

As well as Twine, I am also enjoying Friendfeed. They are complementary services. Twine is about sharing and discovering information about your interests, and Friendfeed is about keeping up with your...

How To Use Twine -- Screencast!

Nova — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:49:22 -0500

I have made a screencast that teaches you how to get started using Twine, and explains most of the features, best-practices for using it, and where we are headed with the product. You can read more...

The Next Evolution of the Bookmark -- Beyond Del.icio.us?

Nova — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:20:59 -0500

I just posted an article on how bookmarking is evolving, in response to the discussion about "Who Bookmarks Anymore?" that I found on Techmeme. Del.icio.us was a start. Twine is taking it somewhere...

The Future of the Desktop

Nova — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:27:29 -0500

(Brief excerpt from a new post on my Public Twine -- Go there to read the whole thing and comment on it with me and others...). I have spent the last year really thinking about the future of the Web....

Subscribe to my Public Twine!

Nova — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:20 -0500

Twine is starting to gradually open up. Today we quietly made all the public content in Twine visible to the public and search engines. We're not doing a big announcement about this. We plan to do...

Blogging is Dead! Long Live Blogging! Why I'm Twining Instead of Blogging.

Nova — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:56:17 -0500

I love how my friend, Jason Calacanis, announces the death of blogging and his retirement from blogging...on a blog. He's a genius. You can read more here and here. But as anyone who reads this blog...

Most of My Blogging is Now in Twine

Nova — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:10:23 -0500

This is a note to readers of this blog. As many of you know, I'm the CEO of Radar Networks, the makers of a new service called Twine. Twine is a service for "interest networking," which I believe is...

Watch my Panel with Tim Berners-Lee today Live on the Web

Nova — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:10:24 -0500

Tim Berners-Lee is giving a talk, and then we're on a panel, live, today, discussing the Semantic Web, Net Neturality and Web Science. Watch the live Webcast and submit your questions to the panel...

Life in Perpetual Beta: The Film

Nova — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:41:57 -0500

Melissa Pierce is a filmmaker who is making a film about "Life in Perpetual Beta." It's about how people who are adapting and reinventing themselves in the moment, and a new philosophy or approach to...

Peace in the Middle East: Could Alternative Energy Be the Solution?

Nova — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:15:38 -0500

I have been thinking about the situation in the Middle East and also the rise of oil prices, peak oil, and the problem of a world economy based on energy scarcity rather than abundance. There is, I...

Video of my Presentation at The Next Web 2008 Conference

Nova — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:44:56 -0500

Here is the full video of my talk on the Semantic Web at The Next Web 2008 Conference. Thanks to Boris and the NextWeb gang!

Solving the Landmine and Cluster Bomb Problem

Nova — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:17:57 -0500

For decades the world has struggled with what to do about unexploded land mines and cluster bombs killing innocent civilians, even years after a conflict has ended. The problem is that a significant...

Tagging and the Semantic Web: Tags as Objects

Nova — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:02:21 -0500

John Mills, one of the engineers behind Twine, recently wrote up an interesting article discussing our approach to semantic tags. It's a good read for folks who think about the Semantic Web and tags....

Big Medical News: Use of Cellphones While Pregnant Risks Damage to Baby

Nova — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:09:59 -0500

A new study has found that using a cell phone 2 or 3 times a day while pregnant is potentially harmful to future child development. The risk level is on par with that of alchohol and...

If Social Networks Were Like Cars...

Nova — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:34:18 -0500

I have been thinking a lot about social networks lately, and why there are so many of them, and what will happen in that space. Today I had what I think is a "big realization" about this. Everyone,...

On the Difference Between "Semantic" and "Semantic Web"

Nova — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:46:40 -0500

This is a brief post with one purpose: to clarify the meaning of the term "semantic." It has suddenly become chic to label every new app as somehow "semantic" but what does this mean really? Are all...

Associative Search and the Semantic Web: The Next Step Beyond Natural Language Search

Nova — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:29:23 -0500

Our present day search engines are a poor match for the way that our brains actually think and search for answers. Our brains search associatively along networks of relationships. We search for...

Video of my Talk at Digital Now

Nova — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:22:08 -0500

This is a video of my talk at the Digital Now conference in Orlando yesterday. There's a long intro by Don Dea, and then I speak (starting at index 05:14) about the Semantic Web and Twine.

Great Collective Intelligence Book; Includes a Chapter I Wrote

Nova — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:53:43 -0500

I highly recommend this new book on Collective Intelligence. It features chapters by a Who's Who of thinkers on Collective Intelligence, including a chapter by me about "Harnessing the Collective...

The Wikipedia, Knowledge Preservation and DNA

Nova — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:54:49 -0500

I had an interesting thought today about the long-term preservation and transmission of human knowledge.The Wikipedia may be on its way to becoming the one of the best places in which to preserve...

Great Article about Benefits of Twine from a Beta User

Nova — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:30:00 -0500

If you are interested in hearing about how some users are using the Twine invite-only beta test, here is a great article about why one user migrated to Twine from del.icio.us.

Cool Twine Fan Video by a High-School Student

Nova — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:55:54 -0500

I was pleasantly surprised to see a very nice fan video for Twine created by a high-school student who is in our beta test. It gives the flavor of Twine and is really nice.

A Few Predictions for the Near Future

Nova — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:44:51 -0500

This is a five minute video in which I was asked to make some predictions for the next decade about the Semantic Web, search and artificial intelligence. It was done at the NextWeb conference and was...

Good Article on History of Talks Between Tibet and China

Nova — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:10:38 -0500

This article sheds some light on the history of attempts to find a resolution between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government. I found it to be quite educational. There have in fact been numerous...

Proof of Chinese Agent Provacateurs Dressing As Tibetan Monks?

Nova — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:11:22 -0500

You have to see this image.

Twine and Linked Data on the Semantic Web

Nova — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:22:15 -0500

Tim Berners-Lee just posted his thoughts about the importance of Linked Data on the Semantic Web. Linked data support is built-into Twine. All the data in Twine is accessible as open-standard RDF and...

My Visit to DERI -- World's Premier Semantic Web Research Institute

Nova — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:28:55 -0500

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit, and speak at, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), located in Galway, Ireland. My hosts were Stefan Decker, the director of the lab,...

Disturbing Eyewitness Testimony from Lhasa

Nova — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:10:28 -0500

I got this picture from a friend who received it from a friend who is on the ground in Lhasa right now. Please redistribute, especially to the news media. Things are much worse for the Tibetans than...

First Week of Twine Beta Phase II Report

Nova — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:44:24 -0500

This week we began letting the second wave of beta users into the Twine invite-only beta. It's been a very busy and exciting time for the Twine team. I'll be providing more detailed stats on an...

Twine Perspective on Yahoo Semantic Web Search Announcement

Nova — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:57:13 -0500

The Beginning of the Mainstream Semantic Web? It is being reported that Yahoo will be indexing a wide array of structured metadata, including Semantic Web metadata. This will make Yahoo's search...

Reminder: Twine is a Beta -- A note about what Beta means

Nova — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:44:57 -0500

I want to remind everyone, TWINE IS A BETA. It is only a beta. Beta means not finished, under development, work in progress, construction site, imperfect, open to feedback, undergoing testing,...

Response to Read Write Web article about Twine

Nova — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:23:13 -0500

UPDATE: I posted some further notes on the fact that Twine is in beta, and what "beta" actually means and why we are in beta here. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a critical review of Twine today that...

Do You Want Early Access to the Twine Beta?

Nova — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:08:50 -0500

Special offer to readers of my blog... There are now well over 30,000 users in the queue to get into the Twine beta. We're going to start letting people in from the waiting list in waves and it...

Insightful Article About Twine

Nova — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:36:00 -0600

Carla Thompson, an analyst for Guidewire Group, has written what I think is a very insightful article about her experience participating in the early-access wave of the Twine beta. We are now...

How about Web 3G?

Nova — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:16:18 -0600

I'm here at the BlogTalk conference in Cork, Ireland with a range of bloggers and technologists discussing the emerging social Web. Including myself, Ian Davis and Paul Miller from Talis, there are...

My Commentary: Radar Networks Raises $13M for Twine

Nova — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:45:29 -0600

I am pleased to announce that my company Radar Networks, has raised a $13M Series B investment round to grow our product, Twine. The investment comes from Velocity Interactive Group, DFJ, and Vulcan....

A Note to Fans of This Blog -- Thanks for your Comments and Emails

Nova — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:32:06 -0600

To all my readers -- and especially to those of you who have commented or sent me emails -- I just wanted to say thanks! I don't always have time to reply, but I always read everything, and I do try...

Video of My Semantic Web Talk

Nova — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:08 -0600

This is a video of me giving commentary on my "Understanding the Semantic Web" talk and how it relates to Twine, to a group of French business school students who made a visit to our office last...