ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation.However, with (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. Doorbuster items marked with an * Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a - Free (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We've teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you'll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic's flagship HDTV is its thinnest 54-inch plasma HDTV ever, with only 1-inch depth. They did it by el (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That’s where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behi (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns. Instead, it has relied mainly on word of mouth to become the $180 billion company it is today. However in the last year, the company (as many mature brands start to do) has rolled out bigger and bigger paid advertising efforts. That includes the Go Go (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
• Breadmaker to stop Canadian imports in the new year• Move welcomed by National Farmers' UnionBritain's farmers were given a boost today when bread maker Hovis announced that it plans to use only British wheat across its entire range.The switch is due to take place early next year. At present, the brand is using between 25 (Read More)
The Guardian:
• US confectioner has moved thousands of jobs to Mexico in three-year restructuring• Company's intentions towards Cadbury, a potential bid target, remain unclearIt calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town of Hershey's, the chocolate maker, has a lingering hint of bitterness in the air after cost-cutting (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investment bank under fire again as investors protest at record bonuses of $717,000 eachGoldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders.Some of the US investment bank's largest investors are furious about the New York-based firm paying record bonuses to (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
It was not boredom but anger that tempted me to leave a play in mid-show – but I lacked the courageIn the middle decades of the 20th century, when theatre was testing the limits of taste, an off-stage sound-effect was regularly heard in the auditorium: the rat-a-tat of seat-backs clacking as scandalised theatregoers walked (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commissionIf ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, this is it. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is looking for a new chief executive. Its chairman (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m a big fan of keeping things simple, but that doesn’t mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland. Sure, sometimes you get returned things like YouTube thumbnails or pictures, but many results are still just a monotonous stream of blue links. Google tried to break this stream up a bit with its Se (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making fundi (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of (Read More)
The Guardian:
Jean-Claude Trichet said it was time to unwind some of the measures that propped up the banking system during the financial crisisEuropean Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet warned today that banks risk becoming addicted to cheap cash provided by central banks in their efforts get them lending again.Trichet also s (Read More)