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- Semantic Web
- A collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data on the Web. The Semantic Web uses XML tags that conform...
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- Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity
- Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Kingsley Idehen opens Linked Data Planet in New York City
- Recent podcast subject Kingsley Idehen opened the Linked Data Planet conference in New York yesterday morning, demonstrating the evolution of thought and practice from the world of big databases toward the Semantic Web; a journey that he and his company are well positioned to describe. Kingsley began...
- Tags: Web, Data, Kingsley Idehen, Podcasts, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone
- May's Semantic Web Gang spoke with Powerset CTO Barney Pell in the week of their big launch last month. The company has followed up on that work, unveiling an iPhone-friendly version of their enhanced Wikipedia search. If you have an iPhone, take a look....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Wikipedia, Wiki, Semantic Web, Online Communications, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...
- Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- 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
- Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF
- Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...
- Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Yahoo embraces the Semantic Web?
- Mike Arrington broke a story over at TechCrunch this morning, suggesting that Yahoo! are about to extend their Open Search Platform by embracing a number of Semantic Web specifications. A post on the Yahoo! Search blog confirms this. Quoting from the Yahoo! blog post; ...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Is all publicity good publicity?
- There's a well-known saying that all publicity is good publicity, but you have to wonder whether the team over at Radar Networks feel that way this morning. The company is behind Twine, which was unveiled to much fanfare at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit last November. Having...
- Tags: Application, Network, Radar, Beta, Twine, Marshall, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- 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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