Twine Prepares Ontology Authoring Tool: ReadWriteWeb

[via Twine Could Soon Surpass Delicious, Prepares Ontology Authoring Tool - ReadWriteWeb.]
Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote this post earlier this week about Twine’s new hosted authoring tool for ontologies:

Nova Spivack’s semantic web company Twine is developing a free service to write and host semantic ontologies; the classification trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context. Ready to play Aristotle and create an ontology of cheese, model airplanes, global anti-hunger organizations or any other topic?

What blogging was to publishing, a simple tool that made far more people able to participate, Twine’s new ontology writing and hosting service could be to the act of teaching machines about new topics.

The company wouldn’t let us publish the new service’s name but says it is aiming for a launch date this year, as soon as a go-to-market strategy and appropriate partnerships are lined up. The ontologies created won’t only work on Twine; they will be referenceable by semantic apps anywhere around the web.

A service for authoring and hosting ontologies certainly adds value. My questions are:

Who will write these public ontologies?
When will Twine fix their dreadful user experience?

Mike Axelrod and I have spent a lot of time lately speculating what could be done by mashing-up various semantic web services like Twine’s. It seem all of the technology providers have “one trick ponies” – you can get entity extraction, sentiment analysis, ontology management, tagging, related content – but what if you want to use multiple technologies?