BackWeb
BackWeb Technologies Ltd. was an Israeli-American enterprise software company founded in 1995 by Eli Barkat, Nir Barkat, Yuval Rakavy, Iftah Sneh and Lior Hass, with offices in Ramat Gan, Israel and San Jose, California. BackWeb pioneered "Polite" push technology — background delivery of software updates, patches, alerts and marketing content to desktops using only idle bandwidth so it did not disrupt the user or the corporate network. Its Polite Communication Server, Offline Access Server, e-Accelerator and Proactive Portal products were deployed by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Ericsson, Compaq and SAP, and integrators used the BackWeb Server Extension API and BackWeb Automation SDK to publish content from external data sources into the Polite server. The company IPO'd on NASDAQ (BWEB) in June 1999 after raising roughly $13M privately from investors including Goldman Sachs, Intel and Trinity Ventures, peaking near $38M in annual revenue. It never recovered from the dot-com collapse, was delisted from NASDAQ and moved to the OTC Bulletin Board, approved a voluntary liquidation in 2012, suspended operations and divested its patents in 2014, and began distributing remaining cash to shareholders. BackWeb is defunct: there is no operating company, no developer portal, and no live API. The backweb.com domain is a parked Afternic for-sale lander. This profile is retained as a historical record only.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
BackWeb is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — BackWeb scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
BackWeb is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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