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While it has great potential, the Semantic Web has failed to live up to its promises so far.

This week we reported that Cognition had announced "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language."

SemantiFind is a newly launched semantic search tool which made its debut at the recent DEMO conference. Unlike

Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax.

It's the weekend, so time for our review the past week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on

One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it. As machines learn

URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and

Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into

Zemanta is a an interesting European startup that is applying semantic technologies to blogging. Sarah Perez covered the

Freebase, the first product of semantic web company Metaweb, is an open, semantically marked up database of information

Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers something that services like Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, and Diigo do

What sort of funding opportunities exist in the budding Semantic Web space? What are VCs looking for and

How will the Semantic Web make the jump to the mainstream? That was the topic of a

Thomson Reuters' Calais, a semantic markup API that we first reviewed in February, has reached its 2.0 release.

Tony Sukiennik believes the power of the people trumps the power of the algorithm when it comes to

This month's Semantic Web Gang podcast, syndicated on ReadWriteTalk and featuring RWW's Alex Iskold, is up now. The

BooRah is a semantic and natural language processing aggregator of restaurant reviews. The service pulls in reviews from

Semantic web company Adaptive Blue has published what it hopes will become a standard for publishers who want

Alright, "semantify" may not be an actual word, but you can probably guess at its meaning: "add a

It was just a couple of weeks ago that Yahoo! announced that it would begin indexing semantic markup