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Twine: A social network built on the semantic web dls interview
The concept of a semantic web is based on the idea that machines can be taught to understand language more like the way people understand it. For example, a semantic web search engine would know the difference between John F Kennedy the person and John F Kennedy the airport. But the truth of the matter is that Google does a pretty good job of meeting your search needs. And that's why we were interested in speaking with Nova Spivack, the CEO and Founder of Radar Networks, one of the companies pioneering the Semantic Web.
Today Spivack is announcing Radar's first product. Twine is a "knowledge network," built on a semantic web platform. Basically you can think of Twine as a cross between Facebook and Google, with a little bit of del.icio.us thrown in for good measure.
We asked Spivack why Radar would focus on a social application rather than a search engine, and here was his response:
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information. And our mission is really to organize your information. Your information is really the most important information in the world. It's the other 90% of the information that Google isn't indexing really. I think that Google is doing a wonderful job of crawling the web. And in fact it's something that we plan to leverage. Certainly I don't think that it would make a lot of sense for any company today to directly compete with Google. And in fact, there's lots of opportunity in areas that Google isn't really strong at. And this is one of them."

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
