Radar Networks has launched its new service called Twine in beta invitation only. Twine is born a few months ago under the lead of Nova Spivack, the founder of the Radar Networks company and a semantic web evangelist.

But what is Twine? Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.

• Organize: Twine is a central repository where you can keep information about your interests. As you add information to Twine, it is automatically tagged so that you and others can find it more easily. You are able to add items by bookmarking web content, posting by email and contributing directly in Twine.
• Share: Connect with individuals and groups, gather and share content, and engage in discussions around your interests. By connecting with other members of Twine you can share information with each other. Connecting with others lets Twine know what shared interests each user has so Twine can offer better recommendations. Twine is a service that helps you start and join interest networks called twines. Instead of using old-fashioned groupware, twines are a smarter way to collaborate and share knowledge with a collaborative team.
• Discover: Twine connects you with new people, content and products that match your interests, and helps other people discover you and your contributions. Items in Twine can be searched, filtered and sorted in order to help you find the exact item you are looking for. You can also explore Twine by looking at the activity of twines, people and items by their activity in Twine. As you use Twine, it learns about your interests and will recommend people, twines and items for you.

Powered by a semantic understanding engine, Twine automatically organizes information, learns about your interests and makes you recommendations. The more you use Twine, the better it gets to know you and the more useful it becomes.

The Semantic Web creates a web of data that allows computers to find, extract, share, re-use information, and potentially even reason with it. Semantic data itself contains “meta-information” so that other services are able to make sense of it. For example, the Semantic Web uses markup not only to indicate how something should be rendered, but also to express content (e.g. the authorship, title, and date of an article). The Semantic Web is the next step in the evolution of the Internet. But making this technology meaningful and accessible to everyday users is where Twine comes in. And while users certainly don’t need to understand the Semantic Web in order to appreciate Twine, several technologies are hard at work behind the scenes of its simple user interface.

Collaborators at b-spirit have some available invitations to give…those interested in getting an invitation to test Twine in beta can leave a comment on this post. Obviously invitations will be managed as first requested first served…