Some exciting news
I am excited to announce that today, Evri has upped the ante for buy in to the semantic web search and discovery game. Today we not only launched the next generation of Evri, but also announced the acquisition of Radar Networks, and its key brand, Twine.com. Today marks a very important day not only for Evri and Radar, but for everyone who has followed or cared about the promise of what semantic technologies can bring to the web.
With the explosion of content on the internet, today’s news search experience is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles. It’s become a laborious activity that places the burden on consumers to know where and how to look for what they want. We’ve grown accustomed and complacent to the “good enough” functions of the web experience we’re getting today. It should be and can be so much better.
With today’s acquisition – Evri gains an experienced development team with proven momentum in semantic search and content discovery, putting us that much closer to delivering on our vision of a truly intelligent, timely and intuitive way of finding the news and content that matters most to people.
In addition, the re-launch of www.evri.com, we have delivered a more intuitive ways to search, explore and filter the trending news and multi-media content of the web, we’re enabling consumers to cut through the clutter and receive only content of interest to them. Take a look at the visual and technological updates designed to enhance the experience of discovery, you will be surprised and delighted with what you discover.
We’re striving to deliver a consumer experience that proactively discovers the most interesting, popular and trending stories on the web, filtering out the clutter and delivering information to consumers in timely, relevant and intelligent streams. Twine’s vision of giving users a smarter way to share, organize and find information with people they trust complements our goals, allowing us to become the industry’s most comprehensive consumer semantic search and discovery company.
Take a look at the new, improved Evri.com and stay tuned in the coming weeks as we bring Evri and Twine together.
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I believe Evri has a lot of potential, and have been exploring its offerings recently. My concern, however, is the apparent termination of Twine – when Evri announces it will no longer support Twine, my translation is that Twine will no longer be accessible or usable. Please correct me if I am wrong. I wish Everi had been clearer about its intentions for Twine sooner, such as at the time youre post was written.
I do see how Twine compliments your goals, but does that mean having to end it? As you no doubt know, the value of Twine, in addition to what its developers created, was the result of hundreds of thousands of hours invested in the concept by its users. We have had no recognition of that value, and apart from Evri giving us a way to download our bookmarks, many of us feel totally abandoned.
If you peruse some of the successful twines you will see a unique combination of technology and human interaction forming a kind of community that is qualitatively different from that which forms around other sites.
As I use Evri I do not see it as a competitor of Twine, but rather I see the two sites complimenting each other. By all means draw, from the Twine experience to enhance Evri, but does that necessarily preclude having keep Twine operative?
I believe that regardless of what happens in future the Twine users deserve a more reflective and meaningful correspondence with Evri than we have had so far. And I would ask you also, to please find a way to keep the Twine community operative and together through the Twine site. If you do so, I suspect there will be a lot more of them using Evri in future than may now be the case.
Thank you for your consideration.
While I understand that some users seem upset about Twine closing, realize that it’s a business decision. Given Twine’s userbase, it makes no sense to keep operating it, the value is not great enough and unless I missed something, Evri’s objectives are not to be run as a charity.