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Faviki's Social Bookmarking Tool Makes Semantic Tagging Even Easier
Written by Sarah Perez / July 2, 2009 6:04 AM / 9 Comments
When we first looked at Faviki, a social bookmarking application which made its debut last year, we were intrigued by their idea of "semantic tagging." What makes Faviki different from Continue reading »


Search and Rescue: 6 Approaches to Semantic Data Collection
Written by Dana Oshiro / June 25, 2009 3:45 PM / 3 Comments
It's been more than ten years since Tim Berners-Lee first spoke about the semantic web and computers indexing all web-based data. He said, "The day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and Continue reading »


Tags as Far as the Eye Can See: New York Times to Publish Index as Linked Data
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 18, 2009 12:43 PM / 3 Comments
Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference, Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced together that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Continue reading »


Glue API Links Data from Popular Social & Semantic Sites
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 16, 2009 3:00 PM / 0 Comments
Glue, a browser-based social network that appears on sites such as Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, and Citysearch, today announced their public API for third-party developers. Glue joins a Continue reading »


The State of the Market in Semantic Technologies
Written by Richard MacManus / June 16, 2009 9:23 AM / 2 Comments
Tom Tague from Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais team did a keynote speech today at SemTech in San Jose. His presentation was a wonderful wrapup of current semantic technology trends, and what Continue reading »


Common Tag Brings Standards to Metadata
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 10, 2009 6:10 PM / 20 Comments
Let's suppose you uploaded some pictures of a trip to New York City to an online account. Do you tag them "New York City," "NYC," "newyork," or all of the Continue reading »


CNET Partners with Thomson Reuters on Linked Data Initiative
Written by Richard MacManus / May 28, 2009 6:00 AM / 5 Comments
The latest implementation of OpenCalais, the Semantic API by media company Thomson Reuters, has just been announced. It's with 'new media' stalwart CNET, which has signed up to use OpenCalais Continue reading »


Yahoo Placemaker: Extract Location Data from Any Text
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 20, 2009 11:30 AM / 4 Comments
At Where 2.0 today, Yahoo announced a new product in its already impressive lineup of geo technologies: Placemaker. Placemaker is a new open API from Yahoo that helps developers to Continue reading »


Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web
Written by Richard MacManus / May 14, 2009 5:15 AM / 43 Comments
I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around Continue reading »


The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 30, 2009 6:53 PM / 11 Comments
One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on Continue reading »


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