Radar networks
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| Type | Private company |
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| Founded | San Francisco (Jan 1, 2003) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Nova Spivack, Founder & CEO |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Website | www.radarnetworks.com |
Radar Networks is a software company based in Silicon Valley. It is one of two companies (the other being Metaweb) that are focused on building technology to enable the Semantic Web, a more intelligent and machine-readable version of the current World Wide Web.
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[edit] History
The company was founded in 2003 by entrepreneur and web futurist Nova Spivack. Initially Radar Networks was sub-contracted by SRI International, one of the world's largest research institutes, to work on the CALO initiative, a Semantic Web research project funded by DARPA, the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense. However for the past few years the company's focus has been on developing a platform and applications to bring the Semantic Web to consumers.
[edit] Products
Radar Networks' core technology is a proprietary technology platform, based on W3C standards such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL for extending data on the World Wide Web to be universally searchable. The company has stated that it will be launching its first products built on the platform in 2007, focused on consumer applications of the Semantic Web.
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[edit] References
- A Smarter Web By John Borland. MIT Technology Review - March 2007
- Coming Soon: The Semantic Web. By Sebastian Rupley. PC Magazine - December 2006
- Web 3.0 By Cade Metz. PC Magazine - March 2007
- Web 3.0 as the next phase of the Web (San Francisco Chronicle)
- The Third Wave. By Mark Henricks. Entrepreneur Magazine - April 2007
- Podcast interview with Nova Spivack By Dr. Paul Miller. Talis - April 2007
- Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense By John Markoff. New York Times - November 2006
- The Web's New Revolutionaries By David Smith. The Guardian UK - November 2006.
