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 conc (Read More)
Stefano's Linotype:
Did you ever wonder about what I saw in Freebase that made me join Metaweb but you still can’t see?Or you think Freebase is cool and all, but you have no idea how you could make use of it or why you should care in practice?Or (Read More)
Submitted by jny2cornell
from Google Reader:
As strong believers in the semantic tagging (we wrote about it here and here), we are happy to announce that today one big step toward realization of the idea is made.Faviki is involved in the development of the new open ta (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Let's suppose you uploaded some pictures of a trip to New York City to an online account. Do you tag them "New York City," "NYC," "newyork," all of the above? How do you know your content will be correctly identified and rela (Read More)
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Squared, one of Google’s fun but more problem infested products, has the macabre habit of declaring random living people dead. Take the query actors, for instance, which will automatically include a column titled “Date (Read More)
The Semantic Puzzle:
Jamie Taylor, MetawebAndreas Blumauer from Semantic Web Company (SWC) talked with Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information at Metaweb Technologies Inc. about Freebase & Linked Data and Google´s announcement to use RDFa.SWC: At I (Read More)
ProgrammableWeb:
This week saw the widest range of APIs being used to develop mashups we’ve seen in awhile: 42 different APIs used in 7 days. Of those new apps added to our mashup directory, only a handful were map mashups, whereas most of th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3. (Read More)
Open Objects:
I think hack days are great - sure, 24 hours in one space is an artificial constraint, but the sheer brilliance of the ideas and the ingenuity of the implementations is inspiring. They're a reminder that good projects don't (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google released two new labs projects today: Similar Images and Google News Timeline. Similar Images, as the name implies, allows you to restrict image searches to pictures that are similar to a source picture, while Google N (Read More)
Google Operating System:
Google News Timeline is the second new services released today in Google Labs. According to Google, it's "a web application that organizes information chronologically. Google News Timeline allows users to view news, scanned n (Read More)
Submitted by alltoute
from Google Reader:
Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed the computing world. This week the company (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed the computing world. This week the company (Read More)
Submitted by mrkrm
from Google Reader:
Writing and Sharing Data Can be Lightened UpEver since I first started to learn in earnest about ontology, something has been gnawing at me. The term seemed to be (shall I say?) an obtuse one whose obscurity was not the resu (Read More)
My Clippings on NewsGator Online:
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the exciting possibilities of LOD-enabled NLP APIs, and if they could bring another power-upto RDF developers by simplifying the creation of DIY Semantic Web apps. When Thomson Reutersrelea (Read More)
Submitted by alltoute
from Google Reader:
Do you recognize this man?Believe it or not, he’s one of our biggest contributors to Freebase. He goes by many names that you may have seen on our pages — mwcl_wikipedia_en, gns_bot, mw_template_bot, mw_prop_bot, mergebot a (Read More)