http://oxfordseo.com/blog New developments in search engine optimisation and semantic web development. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, let's start with 5 facts and then 1 Question: 1. There are presently 500,000,000 regular Facebook users. Meaning, actively using at least 3 times a week.  (An average Facebook user has 130 "Friends"). 2. 50% of active users log-on to Facebook in any given day. 3. 3,500 NEW people join Facebook every ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=588 Did you think you would see those two words together? [caption id="attachment_583" align="alignright" width="453" caption="If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"][/caption] On the same line, no less! Ever since Google CEO Carl Schmidt admitted that Google development lab was taking on board semantic ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=579 Check out this excellent blog posting on the Semantic web and html 5  SEO and the Semantic Web – how RDFa and HTML 5 will impact search  by Sam Langdon http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=572 I know it's been a while but events often overtake accounts and we'd rather wait until there's something useful to add to the cacophony of voices on the web all trying to be heard all at once, rather than just blog for blog's sake. [caption id="attachment_570" align="alignright" width="500" caption="The Future of Everything in ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=554 The Linked Web is a Semantically Structured web that opens up siloed databases The Open Data Movement is transforming the direct gov site of government information that makes the Freedom of Information a tangible reality. Tim Bern-Lee, the new British digital Czar is orchestrating a £30 million pound Semantic enhancement of government ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=550 It's been some time since we've taken the opportunity to add another snippet of commentary to the OxfordSEO blog and we want to offer our apologies to all our readers and subscribers if you were wondering if we had packed it in or whether you'd ever hear another blurb on ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=539 The  Semantic Web Gang we are joined by Brand Niemann of the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a discussion of efforts to apply semantic technologies to Government data in the USA and elsewhere.  Listen to the podcast. http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=537 BBC NEWS http://cstat.us/30 "Semantic web technology" is being used to reconnect Colombians displaced in the country's civil conflict. "The displaced population in Colombia is the most vulnerable because their fundamental rights are massively violated," Juan Sequeda, who works on the project, told the BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme. "Their [physical] social networks ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=528 In a recent podcast interview (by Eric Miller),Ivan Herman gives an overview of recent Semantic web [caption id="attachment_516" align="alignright" width="126" caption="Ivan Herman"][/caption] development activity. He talks about how in the past year all the primary components of the semantic web have come into place for developing new applications. Linked Data, Microformats, OWL, ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=515 Only a year after the collapse of the $47.5 billion deal to buy Yahoo, Microsoft and it's former prey have entered into a pact to take on Google's 2/3 search market share.  he Microsoft-Yahoo pact is a measured step that represents a pragmatic division of duties between the two companies ... http://oxfordseo.com/blog/?p=510