ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook's privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the iPhone, review Firefox 3.5, check out Google's update to Blog Search, and more. We al (Read More)
readwriteweb:
If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users (Read More)
SemanticUniverse.com:
Analyzing online content with openamplifyNetworkWorld.com, MAThat's the problem the concept of the Semantic Web is intended to address: Adding implicit structure to Web content so that its meaning and intent are clear and easily discovered. (Read More)
Submitted by Keywest
from Google Reader:
Much of HTML 5’s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog.Firstly what we’ll do is use the header, footer, an (Read More)
SemanticUniverse.com:
Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?ZDNet BlogsTechniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be increasingly valuable skillsets for employees in the future: data analysis, visualization and in my opinion an understanding of of the vernacular of semantic web technologies. (Read More)
The Semantic Puzzle:
Over the past few months we have seen an impressive increase in Semantic Web Meetups all over the world. More and more afficionados enjoy this informal and decentralized way of networking with the local community, gaining new inputs and impressions for projects and (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a few good events to our schedule this week. So, pull up your calendars and block off days for the ones that match your interests. This events guide is a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that sho (Read More)
Submitted by Coldacid
from Google Reader:
Sitting on such a powerful contextual API that returns semantic data is never easy for creative people. We announced a while ago that we output semantic data as part of our API results, meaning that we connect identified concepts to Linked Data cloud. Databases that we link to include Freebase, Semantic CrunchBase and DBped (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
It's been more than ten years since Tim Berners-Lee first spoke about the semantic web and computers indexing all web-based data. He said, "The day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The 'intelligent agents' people have touted for ages will finally ma (Read More)
Yahoo! Search Blog:
An enthusiastic group of data geeks and Semantic Web enthusiasts met last week at our Sunnyvale headquarters where we hosted the latest edition of VoCamp. VoCamps are a series of informal events that provide a small setting where the Semantic Web community can discuss issues related to semantic interoperability and creating (Read More)
The Semantic Puzzle:
Some new releases around Apple´s iPhone family, like the new OS3.0 or the new 3G S have stimulated another big hype around this “little darling”. I took a look at another facet, namely: Has the Semantic Web entered the iPhone realm yet (or vice versa)? Experts have been talking about the need for semantically enhanced mobil (Read More)
W3C Semantic Web Activity News:
Сергей Щербак (Sergey Shcherbak) has published a Russian translation of the SPARQL Query Language, under the title “Язык запросов SPARQL для RDF”. (Read More)
W3C Semantic Web Activity News:
The “XSPARQL” specification has been published as a W3C member submission, co-authored by experts of Asemantics S.R.L., DERI Galway, Fundación CTIC, INRIA, Ontotext, OpenLink Software Inc., Profium, Talis Information Ltd., and the University of Innsbruck. This specification defines a merge of SPARQL and XQuery, and has the (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is precisely the reason why Canadian technologist Bruce Johnson switched his focus from semantic tagging to a new style of search. Says Jo (Read More)
Submitted by Kristathomas:
Tom Tague (from Open Calais) gave a very nice opening keynote. His talk was actually not on Open Calais (he did that in 2008), but rather on his experience in talking to different people who tried to start up new ventures in the Semantic Web area (a quote from his talk: “in 80% of the discussions I did not understand what t (Read More)