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.

BackWeb is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Software, Push Technology, Content Delivery, and Software Distribution.

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0.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Enterprise SoftwarePush TechnologyContent Delivery Software Distribution Israel Defunct Historical

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Source (apis.yml)

aid: backweb
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/backweb.png
name: BackWeb
description: '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.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/backweb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- trinity-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Voluntary liquidation approved 2012; operations suspended and patents divested 2014; OTC trading ceased 2014-11-08.
  No successor entity. Domain backweb.com is parked and listed for sale on Afternic (HTTP 307 redirect to afternic.com/forsale/backweb.com,
  probed 2026-07-20).
x-founded: '1995'
x-ipo: '1999-06-01'
x-ticker: BWEB
x-historical-apis:
- name: BackWeb Server Extension API
  description: Integration API allowing the BackWeb Polite Communication Server to be fed by any digital data source. Discontinued
    with the company; no specification survives publicly.
- name: BackWeb Automation SDK
  description: SDK and Automation Editor with APIs and supplied programs bridging the Polite Communication Server and external
    data sources. Discontinued with the company.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise Software
- Push Technology
- Content Delivery
- Software Distribution
- Israel
- Defunct
- Historical
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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