But Will We All Have Jet Packs By Then?

Wow . . .

The Future of the Web (originally appearing in Faxts.com)

Written by David Tow

By 2020 Web 2.0- The Social Web- will have developed into a complex multimedia interweaving of ideas, knowledge and social commentary, connecting over three billion people on the planet. In combination with the Semantic Web 3.0 it will automatically [...]

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Google’s VP of Search Products Dismisses Semantic Search

Marrisa Mayer is Google’s VP of Google’s search products.  In an interview with Bambi Fransisco of Vatornews, Mayer does her best to down play the importance of natural search optimisation tactics as well as the emergence of the new Semantic oriented search engines.  Ofcourse she would, as VP for Google  products, her job is [...]

Semantic Desktop Helps You Keep Track of Your Girlfriends’ Girlfriends

Always a problem . . .
European researchers have developed innovative software to make finding information on your computer and sharing it with others considerably easier. In the process, they may have solved the chicken and egg problem that has held back development of the semantic web.
Annotating information with semantic data so that its meaning is [...]

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OxfordSEO in the Oxford Times: Click on the Hat


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Semantic Associations for an Actor’s Website

Stevehay.co.uk isn’t live yet.  But Steve Hay is and his website designer is busy constructing a blog-o-centric website for him to run an on-going chronicle of his life as jobbing actor.  Rather than make his porfolio of photos and showreel the centre of his site as an attration to the potential browsing casting director, Steve [...]

Allen Ginsberg: “the Beatles Spilled the Beans”.

Meaning, what used to be relegated to the domain of an eclectic, eccentric  cabal of visionary poets, protected  by  oversight and mainstream condescension became an overnight mass market media feeding frenzy.   So it was then with the release of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (although Revolver was already tilting in that direction), so it [...]

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Adaptive Blue Wants to Make the Semantic Web Practical

Adaptive Blue is a Semantic web engine that’s been around for more than a year `(that’s pretty old).  But it’s worth taking alook at their approach because it defies the conventional wisdom being practised by most new engines.  Their stated intention is to take a top bottom instead of bottom up approach by ‘teaching’  machines [...]

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SEO Starter Guide launched by Google

Google has launched a new beginner’s guide to search engine optimization (SEO) for webmasters looking to promote their sites online.
The SEO Starter Guide offers guidance on about a dozen different areas that are commonly explored by online marketing professionals when optimizing a site for search engines.
These include utilizing title and meta tags for SEO, website navigation, URL [...]

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Google Embraces Usability Standards for Ranking

There’s no point in ranking high if once your traffic arrives it just drives away.  Google is putting its efforts into building more refined criterion for ranking its indexes than mere linking.  Firstly, they’re rewarding relevant out-going links as well as incoming; so much for those expensive link building strategies.
It all goes back to the [...]

Successful Launch for OxfordSEO.com

Friday, November 7th was the official launch of OxfordSEO.com at the new Boiler Room @ The Jam Factory in Oxford.  Guests included leading Oxford IT investors, Oxford Times editors and Oxofrd University Press personnel.  There was a short presentation on Semantic Web development and it’s imminent impact on SEO by Projects Director Igor Goldkind.  Free [...]

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