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The future of enterprise data in a radically open and Web-based world

Enter web data servicesDion, great post. I agree that the companies who focus on and succeed at opening up their data will be the winners. You mention WOA, Open APIs and the Semantic Web as being key enablers of open data, but it will take a long time before...

Tags: EDI, Databases, enterprise data, Calais

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Semantic Web: To be or not to be

Semantic Web: To be or not to beSemantic web - choose your vendors carefullyI am all for the semantic web and the development of a layer of consciousness over it for full interoperability and new application mashups. I've heard of a number of publishers thinking about jumping on the...

Tags: Zemanta, Calais, Semantic Web, Thomson Reuters Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Thomson Reuters unveils commercial version of Calais

In a move that should surprise no one who has been paying attention, Thomson Reuters today announced commercial pricing for their Calais offering. Calais' Tom Tague was quick to stress that this is in addition to the current free service, and that a free Open Calais is...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Pricing Strategy, Service, Calais, Calais Enterprise, Pricing, Service Level Management, Marketing Research, Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-24

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New York Times embraces Linked Data

New York Times embraces Linked DataGrowing MomentumThis announcement is somewhat vague. I'm surprised that the NY Times let CBS steal their thunder earlier this month with http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/linked/data which announced the partnership between CNet and Open Calais.Interesting! NYTimes brand will live on.The NYTimes seems to be more cutting edge than most...

Tags: New York Times Co., Linked Data

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

News to know: Apple vs. Palm; Windows 7; Adobe; Twitter and Iran

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync can work for now Jason O'Grady: A fix for Mail...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Mice, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

The Linked Content Economy: Thomson Reuters Open Calais Toolkit to Create More Intelligent Applications

The Linked Content Economy: Thomson Reuters Open Calais Toolkit to Create More Intelligent ApplicationsThe index: is The Semantic Plumbing for the Planet.As posted on January 14th, 2009 by Oliver Marks @ 9:51 amThe limitation is the silo-in, silo-out of this service. Capturing and storing each user's closed network use...

Tags: Strategy, grass roots innovator, Thomson Reuters Corp., ontology

Discussion threads 2009-01-31

News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Obama, Dan Lyons, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais, Linked Data and Google

January's episode of the monthly Semantic Web Gang podcast has just been published. In it Gang members discuss Thomson Reuters' release of Calais 4.0, and look at the suggestion that Google may be applying a more semantic approach to surfacing some search results. by Paul Miller

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Paul Miller, Podcasts, Semantic Web

Blog posts 2009-01-19

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

The Linked Content Economy: Thomson Reuters Open Calais Toolkit to Create More Intelligent Applications

Thomson Reuters today announce Calais 4.0, 'a web service that uses natural language processing technology to semantically tag text that is input to the service. The tags are delivered to the user who can then incorporate them into other applications - for search, news aggregation, blogs, catalogs, you name it.'...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Thomson Reuters bets on Content remaining King with Calais 4.0

Global information behemoth Thomson Reuters today announces the latest version of its Calais web service, delivering on earlier promises with respect to 'Linked Data' and firmly staking out the company's intention to be a significant player in the shifting market for timely and authoritative information. I'll take...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., URI, Tague, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-14

The Semantic Enterprise

The video above by Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar provides a clear and simple overview of the semantic web for 'newbies', explaining the limitations of the internet in its current incarnation and the potential of next generation intelligent agent machines to help us find information. While the...

Tags: Environment, Information Context, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Zemanta talks Linked Data with SDK and commercial API

I covered Slovene semantic technology startup Zemanta back in September when they secured investment from New York City's Union Square Ventures, and the company also received frequent mentions in the Semantic Web Gang's recent look back over 2008. Yesterday, the company released an update to their popular...

Tags: API, SDK, Zemanta, Freebase, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Semantic Web Gang looks back at 2008; favours both infrastructure and lightweight apps

Looking back over 2008, the Semantic Web Gang found much to discuss in their last podcast of the year. A year that began with a $42million investment in Metaweb continued with Yahoo!'s support for semantic technologies, Microsoft's purchase of Powerset, and the release of much-hyped Twine. We...

Tags: Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big

Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic...

Tags: David Provost, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?

Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...

Tags: European Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Technology, Conference, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-29

News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances’ that re-architect...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Thomson Reuters bootstraps Semantic Web of Linked Data with SemanticProxy

The Calais team inside Thomson Reuters continues to impress, and today's release could in many ways be the best yet as it promises to contribute massively to the growing body of 'Linked Data' on the Web. As regular readers will remember, this 'Linked Data' is the same stuff being described...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Web, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-23

ThomsonReuters' OpenCalais increments to version 2.1

The Calais team over at ThomsonReuters reported the release of Calais version 2.1 earlier today, adding some new entity types, enhanced relevance ranking, integration with Yahoo! Pipes and a revised version of their Gnosis browser plugin that now includes compatibility with Internet Explorer. It's good to see...

Tags: ThomsonReuters, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-01