Twine
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Seedcamp-backed Twine launches marketplace for creatives
Having made headway in building out its community for creatives, Twine recently flicked the monetization switch by adding a marketplace to its wares. This lets businesses post creative briefs and the type of specialism they are looking for, from which Twine’s community can pitch for the advertised work. Read More
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Twine Canvas Is Like Tinder But Based On Personality, Not Sex Appeal
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Beauty is only skin deep. It’s what’s on the inside that counts. These are the mantras of millions of young singles scouring the internet for someone with which to have intercourse, or potentially procreate. But mobile app developer SourceBits has released a new dating app, called Twine Canvas (??), that may be just the ticket. Read More
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Sourcebits-Incubated Twine Launches On iOS And Android To Flip The Mobile Flirting Game On Its Head
After a year in development and looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of “people discovery” apps like Highlight and mobile flirting apps like Tinder, today Twine is officially bringing its “ice breaking” app to App Store and Google Play. Read More
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‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet
Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry’s done? Well MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5″ rubber square which connects to Wifi and allows objects to “communicate” under certain conditions. The Twine, which reminds me of a Square from a design simplicity perspective, comes with a… Read More
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Nasty Lawsuit Between Radar Networks And A Very Upset Investor
There’s a nasty, and very personal, lawsuit in progress between Radar Networks and a jilted investor, Kate Paley (daughter of CBS icon William Paley). The defendants include founder Nova Spivack, the company that eventually acquired Radar Networks (Evri) as well as investors Steve Hall, Ross Levinsohn and Baris Kardogan. The company, known by most through it’s product Twine, was… Read More
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Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation
After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine. Rumors surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri was being acquired, but that is not the case. Evri is the acquirer. Read More
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Bing, Google, And The Enigmatic T2: The Race For A Complete Semantic Search Engine
Yesterday, Bing released a surprisingly useful new feature around recipe search. If you search for “Chicken,” you can narrow the results down by “chicken recipes” and then a whole bunch of new filtering options appear down the left-hand column. You can further narrow results by recipe rating, cuisine (vegetarian, Spanish, Southwestern), convenience (quick/easy… Read More
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Sneak Peek At T2, Twine's Semantic Search Engine
Extracting meaning from the Web is huge project that is very difficult to do at large scale. Keyword search only skims the surface of meaning locked in Web pages. Various semantic search technologies try to go deeper by adding structured data to web pages so that the Web can be treated more like a database. But adding semantic metadata to the Web is laborious and time-consuming. Just look… Read More
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Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. Twine, a site which lets you collect and subscribe to different interest feeds, just introduced a new way to wade through its streams. The new Flash… Read More
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Connect Your Thoughts To The Mindex With Imindi (Private Beta Invites)
What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. Adam Lindemann learned that the hard way with iMindi, a startup trying to create a “thought engine” that was skewered by our judges at last year’s TechCrunch50. “It almost destroyed us,” says Lindemann. But he and his team have completely redesigned the product, which creates a mind map of your thoughts… Read More
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Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed
It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times as many unique monthly visitors as FreindFeed (714,000 vs. 188,000). On a worldwide basis, comScore shows FriendFeed still slightly ahead of Twine. … Read More
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Twine: "We Organize That Shit."
A year after launching its beta, Twine opened up today to the general public with a completely redesigned site. The relaunch got lots of coverage. Maybe you read some of it. Even if you did, you probably still don’t know what Twine does. Some semantic shit, right? Exactly. Twine’s marketing department made the video above as a joke for their staff meeting today. (Warning: Turn… Read More
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Radar Networks Raises $13 Million B Round; Velocity's Ross Levinsohn Joins Board
Semantic Web startup Radar Networks raised $13 million in a B round, led by Velocity Interactive Group. Velocity’s Ross Levinsohn will join the board. Other investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital. The company previously raised $5 million from Vulcan, Leapfrog Ventures, Ron Conway, and Peter Rip. Radar Networks is the company behind Twine, a site… Read More
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Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life
Radar Networks, the not-so-secret stealth startup, is finally unveiling its site, dubbed Twine. Twine is targeted straight at groupware and knowledge-management apps that have mostly been confined to enterprise installations, and opening that up to a broader base of consumers. The startup has raised $5 million from Paul Allen, Peter Rip, Ron Conway in April, 2006, and has done work for… Read More
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