Nova Spivack's Journal of Unusual News & Ideas "Straight From the Global Mind to Your Brain"
How to Build the Global Mind
by Nova27 Oct 2008 at 1:12 pm
I've Twined a new article on How to Build the Global Mind, here.
Twine User Engagement Stats: Users Spend 12 Minutes Per Session on Average
by Nova21 Oct 2008 at 4:20 am
I've blogged about some interesting Twine stats that show positive user engagement trends, that beat several leading sites -- here on my Public Twine (which is where I actually do most of my blogging...
Interest Networks are at a Tipping Point
by Nova20 Oct 2008 at 9:17 pm
UPDATE: There's already a lot of good discussion going on around this post in my public twine.I’ve been writing about a new trend that I call “interest networking” for a while now. But I wanted to...
Watch My best Talk: The Global Brain is Coming
by Nova2 Oct 2008 at 3:18 pm
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
by Nova18 Sep 2008 at 11:16 pm
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 V...
by Nova12 Sep 2008 at 3:29 pm
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
by Nova11 Sep 2008 at 6:00 pm
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
by Nova27 Aug 2008 at 9:12 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 2:59 am
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!
by Nova27 Aug 2008 at 3:35 pm
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?
by Nova26 Aug 2008 at 10:39 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 5:14 am
(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!
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 12:40 am
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.
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 4:14 am
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 8:06 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 7:56 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 8:12 pm
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?
by Nova29 Aug 2008 at 12:48 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 8:00 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 7:58 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 12:42 am
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 7:14 pm
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...
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 8:06 pm
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"
by Nova29 Aug 2008 at 7:58 am
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 Languag...
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 7:55 pm
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
by Nova26 Aug 2008 at 10:42 pm
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
by Nova29 Aug 2008 at 7:53 am
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 8:02 pm
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
by Nova28 Aug 2008 at 12:41 am
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
by Nova26 Aug 2008 at 10:43 pm
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.