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10 More Semantic Apps to Watch

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3 days ago

Summary

In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well - a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are still finding their way.

Now we're going to list 10 more Semantic apps to watch. These are all apps that have gotten onto our radar over 2008. We've reviewed all but one of them, so click through to the individual reviews for more detail. It should go without saying, but this is by no means an exhaustive list - so if we haven't mentioned your favorite, please add it in the comments.

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BooRah

BooRah is a restaurant review site that we first reviewed earlier this year. One of BooRah's most interesting aspects is that it uses semantic analysis and natural language processing to aggregate reviews from food blogs. Because of this, BooRah can recognize praise and criticism in these reviews and then rates restaurants accordingly. BooRah also gathers reviews from Citysearch, Tripadvisor and other large review sites.

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Comments (1)

Martinrstone,

Dec 01, 2008

Creating meaning out of text in context is being used by a number of applications. One day perhaps, we'll all incorporate semantic tagging in our web pages to a universally accepted standard, rather than relying on external applications to create the meaning for us.