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Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 7, 2008 2:00 PM / 10 Comments
Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another - semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input Continue reading »


Evri Beta Launches: Search Less - Understand More
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2008 9:01 PM / 5 Comments
Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri's CEO Neil Roseman likes to Continue reading »


Hakia Announces Semantic API
Written by Josh Catone / June 19, 2008 12:56 PM / 2 Comments
Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two Continue reading »


Thinkbase: Mapping the World's Brain
Written by Josh Catone / June 5, 2008 10:30 AM / 1 Comments
If Freebase is an "open shared database of the world's knowledge," then Thinkbase (found via information aesthetics) is a mind map of the world's knowledge. The interesting and incredibly addictive Continue reading »


People in Tech: Andraz Tori, CTO/Co-Founder of Zemanta
Written by Alex Iskold / June 2, 2008 9:29 PM / 4 Comments
Zemanta is a an interesting European startup that is applying semantic technologies to blogging. Sarah Perez covered the company's launch in March. One can think of Zemanta as an auto-complete Continue reading »


Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality
Written by Alex Iskold / May 29, 2008 2:15 PM / 29 Comments
For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search. Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest to all of us, particularly Continue reading »


Freebase: Dispelling The Skepticism
Written by Alex Iskold / May 28, 2008 10:10 PM / 8 Comments
Freebase, the first product of semantic web company Metaweb, is an open, semantically marked up database of information that we called one of the "10 semantic apps to watch" last Continue reading »


SezWho: How it Compares to Disqus & Intense Debate
Written by Corvida / May 28, 2008 10:00 AM / 5 Comments
Today SezWho a universal profile, content discovery, and a sophisticated reputation engine provider, has announced its acquisition of Tejit, a provider of semantic intelligence solutions. The acquisition enables SezWho Continue reading »


Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey
Written by Alex Iskold / May 27, 2008 8:29 PM / 13 Comments
Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked Continue reading »


Semantic Tagging with Faviki
Written by Sarah Perez / May 26, 2008 10:33 AM / 18 Comments
Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers something that services like Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, and Diigo do not - semantic tagging capabilities. What this means is that instead of Continue reading »


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