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Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conferencethanks for thisI couldn't be there and really appreciate your careful report. I'm more interested in Semantic Search now that they aren't promising the moon.Avi Rappoport / SearchTools.com

Tags: Semantic Search Round Table, Semantic Technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?

Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?Semantic AdvertisingSemantic is definetly the key for improved monetization of the social media.ContextIn - Semantic Advertising solutions, as the leader of this field, have great experience in this field.RE: Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?TS Converter for MAC

Tags: Semantic Advertising, social media, semantic technology, brand

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

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It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Oracle delivers native support for Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais service

Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant's OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais' natural language processing NLP capabilities. More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Oracle Corp., Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Focus on the centerImho it eventually boils down to the center section of the Enterprise 2.0 meme map I draw. You have to get the middle right first, then you can gather all the add ons around it. It's a change in behavior. Technologies can follow then and are not...

Tags: Data mining, Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem, Operational Actions, strategic thinking

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google

Strange guesses or hopes?[i]"Advertisers migrate to Microsoft today since it will have the ad platform going forward"[/i]Why? Google makes MS look like a microbe and advertisers want to be where the money is, i.e. where the [b]people[/b] is.What MS has is an effort to copy Google and make money on...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

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: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

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

News to know: Intel; Oracle, Microsoft patches; Azure; Mourning a dead laptop

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: Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better Andrew Nusca: PC sales to see biggest drop...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Windows Mobile Customizability, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-15

New open source Semantic Web store from Garlik capable of enterprise scale

An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of 'scale.' With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to...

Tags: Open Source, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-14

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

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. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Semantic Web Gang podcast looks back at the Semantic Technology Conference

June's episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event's highlights and...

Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...

Despite their motto 'Don't Be Evil', Google appear to be making a pretty good effort at attempting to own your online data and computing world, and all at a low, no up front cost to you. The latest Google product, an operating system, adds to the already formidable...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Internet, Web Browsers, Thin Clients, Hardware, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Let's Focus on Business Value

I'm in a drizzly, blustery Boston Massachusetts on the eve of this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Where last year the conference weather was hot and humid, and the economy still pretty overheated, the weather this year fits the economic cycle pretty well. Enterprise 2.0 was not well...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-21

New York Times embraces Linked Data

The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies; "The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and...

Tags: Paper, New York Times Co., Linked Data, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-18

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

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. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

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