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- Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang
- Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members also discuss Yahoo! SearchMonkey and next week's Semantic Technology Conference in this hour-long conversation recorded yesterday. by...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
- In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Commercialising the Semantic Web
- Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...
- Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta
- Palo Alto-based travel meta-search site UpTake formerly Kango entered a new phase this morning, emerging from a private beta programme that began in December to give a clear indication of how they've been spending the $4million secured from Shasta Ventures last year. For...
- Tags: Hotel, San Diego, Site, UpTake, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?
- Writing in today's Financial Times, Digital Business supplement editor Peter Whitehead offers a different interpretation on Web 3.0 to that which readers of this blog might be used... "Web 2.0 is a world in which anyone can have a go at generating content; Web 3.0...
- Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect
- Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...
- Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- 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
- Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research
- Yahoo! are certainly being a lot more open than competitors such as Google and Microsoft when it comes to talking about their use of semantic technologies. They've been active for several years in recruiting stalwarts of the Semantic Web community such as Dave Beckett, and there is a long tradition...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing
- Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...
- Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008
- The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...
- Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 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
- Why kill Google?
- Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today's Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of this obsession. Have Larry and Sergey done something to upset them? Did they all have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- illumin8-ing improvements for knowledge workers?
- The printing press was a pretty pivotal invention, challenging artificial limitations on the dissemination of ideas maintained by scriptoria and opening flood gates to the vibrant philosophical, social and technological innovations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond. From those early innovations, we entered a long period in...
- Tags: Journal, Elsevier, Illumin8, Productivity, Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Semantic Web Gang forms, debates Semantic Web 'readiness'
- With the increasing cacophony from 'semantic' players in the technology space, it can be extremely difficult to work out what's important, to identify the trends, and to make informed decisions about how any of this affects you and your business. As part of our contribution to bringing some clarity to...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Jim Hendler shares AI's lessons for the Semantic Web
- Professor James A. Hendler goes by the daunting title of 'Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor' at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI in Troy, New York. Behind the title stands a man who has been closely involved with Artificial Intelligence AI research for many years, and someone recognised as amongst the progenitors...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Hendler, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
- Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch draws my attention to SemanticHacker. The site details an invitation from Rochester, NY-based TextWise to suggest compelling applications powered by their API, in return for a guaranteed payment of $100,000 and up to $900,000 in revenue from subsequent commercialisation of the winning idea. ...
- Tags: Concept, API, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties
- New York-based semantic search company hakia will today use the Search Engine Strategies Conference to announce that their Ontological Semantic technology, OntoSem, is available for licensing. Illinois-based RiverGlass, Inc. is the first licensee, and will work to enhance their existing real-time analytics solutions with OntoSem. I spoke...
- Tags: Lexicon, Ontology, OntoSem, RiverGlass Inc., Hakia, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Semantic Web sets conference data free?
- Conferences can be useful for bringing a group of 'interesting' individuals together in one place for a few days, and giving them time and space to focus on a particular set of issues without the usual distractions of the working day. Blackberries, iPhones, and free venue wi-fi make the distractions...
- Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Looking for a dominant Semantic Web search engine
- Despite the continuing efforts of Microsoft, Yahoo! and others, Google remains the dominant horizontal search engine for most people, most of the time. In the United States, comScore reports 58.5% of searches during January were via a Google property. In the Semantic Web space, search is far less established and...
- Tags: Search Engine, Semantic Web, Search, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Commercial uses of the Semantic Web at WWW2008 ?
- This year's World Wide Web conference (WWW2008) is rapidly approaching, and all over the planet web researchers are grappling with the Chinese visa application process ahead of their trip to Beijing. In contrast to a corporate event like Semantic Technology, the World Wide Web conferences tend to...
- Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
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