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- 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
- The Future of the Web
- The semantic web can be quite a hard concept to grasp when discussed in an abstract way: the above video is a particularly useful, clear exposition of the enormous promise and power the future of knowledge sharing holds. Parallax, a novel browsing interface designed by David Huynh...
- Tags: Web, Information, Freebase, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Wiki, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine
- Danny Hillis Metaweb, Barney Pell Powerset and Nova Spivack Radar Networks shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped...
- Tags: Web, Data, Powerset, Twine, Freebase, Freebase Database, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Metaweb: Creating the world's searchable global brain
- One of the stealthy semantic Web startups, Metaweb Technologies revealed its product strategy. According to John Markoffs New York Times story, Metaweb is developing Freebase, "a centralized repository that is more like a digital almanac," in contrast to the distributed card catalog that is the current way Web is searched....
- Tags: Search, Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
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- Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?
- Here's an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Social Web, Tim Berners Lee, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- True Knowledge API lies at the heart of real business model
- Semantically powered question answering start-up True Knowledge today made its Semantic Search API available for public consumption, taking the next step on the company's journey out of beta and providing a clear steer as to the way in which they intend to generate revenue. As the company's...
- Tags: Knowledge, Knowledge Base, True Knowledge, Query API, True Knowledge Home Page, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- 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
- 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
- Information Age versus Tactile Experience
- Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Mail-order, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- $99 WAL-MART iPhone? What are they smoking?
- $99 WAL-MART iPhone? What are they smoking?You have a point, but...It's massively unprofessional to go in print accusing people, even in jest, of doing drugs.RE: $99 WAL-MART iPhone? What are they smoking?"$99 iPhone. Keep smoking that crystal cider, Apple freaks!" Loved the tagline!I also agree with your point. ...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, IT blogosphere, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., WAL-MART iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- The Paparazzi Social Media Problem
- Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, Jevon, Blogging, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Radar Networks opens Twine to the world with version 1.0
- Less than a year after its unveiling at last year's Web 2.0 Summit, and a mere eight months after closing a $13 million Series B funding round, Radar Networks' Twine today moves out of beta as a 1.0 Release, open to all comers. The 'Semantic Web' with...
- Tags: Network, Radar, Beta, Radar Networks, Twine, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Networking, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Web 3.0: Notes from the future
- At the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara October 16th and 17th we dived into some fascinating glimpses of the future. Web 3.0 isn’t just a suffix upgrade, rolling over from the increasingly fuzzy buzz around Web 2.0. This conference was an...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Web 3.0, IBM Lotus Notes, Conference, Advertising World, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- 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
- Visualising the Semantic Web with Parallax
- July's episode of the Semantic Web Gang discussed some of the work being done to ensure that data made addressable by the Semantic Web is actually usable via intelligible interfaces. Subsequently, David Huynh released a video showing 'a novel browsing interface' designed to sit on top of...
- Tags: Internet, Paul Miller, Semantic Web
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
- In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0. Calais was originally launched in January of 2008, and there have been two interim releases in...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Web, Team, Drupal, Yahoo! Inc., Web Service, Tom Tague, Marmoset, Tom, Upshot, RDF, Semantic Web, Team Management, Channel Management, Web Services, Internet, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea
- Last week CNet's Dan Farber picked up on a post by ex-Googler Bret Taylor, entitled 'We need a Wikipedia for data.' Sarah Perez followed up on ReadWriteWeb with a useful roundup in 'Where to find Open Data on the Web,' and the usual flurry of interested individuals commented on each....
- Tags: Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Semantic Web enables innovative steps at Reuters
- Global news agency Reuters is one of those venerable organisations that it's hard not to respect. Superficially, at least, it would be easy to assume them to be an organisation whose days must surely be numbered in a world where the data they used to monetise is increasingly available on...
- Tags: Web, ClearForest Corp., Reuters Ltd., Calais API, Podcasts, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
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