Richard McManus’ ReadWriteWeb is one of the industry’s most informative web technology blogs. Started in April 20th 2003, it has consistently covered new web technology news, application reviews and trend analysis. It has nearly 250,000 RSS and email subscribers and is growing in popularity as it attracts more and more interest amongst [...]
Having recently started an informal discussion at the social network site Friendfeed entitled It’s Just Semantics as a means of provoking opinions from interested parties, it quickly became apparent that not everyone is familiar with the basic building blocks of semantic web development. Although the aim of this Blog is to convey important information about [...]
Dr. Studer is a full professor of Applied Informatics (sic) at the University of Karlsruhe, in Germany, director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute and has been a past president of the Semantic Web Science Association. His areas of research include ontology management, semantic web services, and knowledge management. He’s also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Web Semantics.
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Fasthosts, the UK hosting reseller needed some extra publicity for their SEO so they commissioned a survey showing that Brits don’t have a clue about how search engines work or how to do SEO. And sure enough, they got some media coverage. Ofcourse, to be a valid survey on ignorance [...]
Forrester has been marketing their consumer and business surveys on internet use since time immemorial. And that’s not a bad thing as they (and Jupiter Research, remember them?) were the only market research groups in the 90’s even bothering to address internet user behaviour. The problem I’ve always had with Forrester (apart for their not [...]
Quintura is a visual search engine. It extracts keywords from search results and builds a word cloud. By clicking words in the cloud, you refine your query. There’s also a Quintura for kids which is bright, cheerful and should be a brilliant tool for teaching children intuitively how language is going to work on the [...]
What is the Semantic Web Challenge?
The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. Computers will be better able to search, process, integrate [...]
MacManus has done us the service of a round up of 10 new Semantic derived or inspired products of the year. Of these, we’ve written about Adaptive Blue, Yahoo’s Search Monkey and Open Calais on this blog before and of the pack Open Calais is more specifically based on reading semantic based meta formats. However, [...]
Not to stray too far from the primary subject of this blog, but much of what is intuitive and useful about semantic data structures has to do with how we naturally interpret our experiences into judgments and actions. In life, our intentions are constantly being tempered by consequence; either logical or random. How we interpret [...]
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