Feb-6-2008 - Expert System, leading provider of semantic software, which
discovers, classifies and interprets text information, has signed an
agreement to license its technology to Radar Networks, the pioneer of
Semantic based technology based in San Francisco, CA.  Founded by  Nova
Spivack in 2003 and financed by Leapfrog Ventures and Vulcan Capital (the
venture capital firm led by Paul Allen, Microsoft's Co-founder), Radar
Networks has recently announced at the 4th edition of "Web 2.0 Summit," the
most important event dedicated to the new Web-related technologies and
products, the launch of Twine, the first new Web service based on semantic
technology.

"We call this 'knowledge networking,'" said Radar Networks Founder and CEO
Nova Spivack. "It's the next evolution of collective intelligence on the
Web. Unlike social networking and community tools, Twine is not just about
who you know, it's about what you know. Twine is the ultimate tool for
gathering and sharing knowledge on the Web."
Cogito®, the semantic technology of Expert System, is embedded in Twine
providing natural language processing for any documents or other text item
added to the site.

"Our technology is the only one of its kind in the world," maintains Stefano
Spaggiari, Expert System's CEO "and this is why it is not a surprise that
Radar Networks had reached over Silicon Valley's boundaries to Expert
System.  This is an additional confirmation of the enormous potential of our
semantic platform."

Twine
In between Google and Facebook, with a little bit of deli.cio.us, Twine is
the ideal knowledge network for those who have a need for organizing and
sharing Web-based knowledge in an effective, productive, and organized
way....in other words: in an intelligent way.
Twine allows each user to make use of Web-based information in a unique and
targeted way and to contemporaneously share one's knowledge with friends,
colleagues, etc.

Cogito, Expert System's semantic technology, enables Twine to automatically
identify and extract the most relevant concepts embedded in the text,
independently from the form used to express these concepts.

The content added to Twine is automatically analyzed and organized by topic.
Once concepts (not just keywords) are identified, tags are automatically
generated and assigned to each piece of content helping users to immediately
identify the relevant topics of a text and streamlining the navigation.

"Recently, there has been much talk about semantics, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0, "
explains Marco Varone, Expert System's CTO. "The truth is that tools like
Google and Yahoo! Have no clue about what the user is searching for, and
work effectively only for keyword searches.  Semantics can instead reproduce
a form of comprehension and, for instance, understand that John F. Kennedy
is both an airport and a person; likewise, the technology is able to account
for the fact that New York and the "Big Apple" are synonymous. Although this
is a basic task for us humans, for a machine it is an extraordinary goal,
impossible to reach by means of other technologies."

To try Twine (beta version) please fill out a the form available at
<http://www.twine.com/> http://www.twine.com/ . The final version will
become available to the public in the spring of 2008.

About Radar Networks <http://www.radarnetworks.com/>
Radar Networks was founded in 2003, by Nova Spivack. The company has worked
for several years on a proprietary new core technology for the
next-generation of the Web. Radar Networks is building technology for
enriching content that will catalyze the evolution of a new dimension of the
Web. This new dimension is the next frontier in search, advertising, content
distribution and commerce. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company
anticipates releasing its first commercial products in 2007.