Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to co (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to co (Read More)
The TLS:
Philosophy, you understand, is a very pharmacopoeia of cures that are worse than the corresponding diseases. This started a long while ago; perhaps with Plato’s suggestion that, although there is a problem about how so many d (Read More)
Daily Intel:
Jury selection began today for the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the two Bear Stearns fund managers charged with promoting their hedge funds as healthy while privately worrying that they were "toast," and Judge Fr (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one of the core component of the search giant's (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Gil Elbaz wants people to make lots of spreadsheet tables filled with fun and important facts and share them across the Web. Later today, he will be launching Factual, which he describes as "a platform for anyone to share an (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one of the core component of the search giant's (Read More)
GigaOM:
First there was open source. And here comes open data. Or that’s what Gil Elbaz thinks. He is returning to the start-up arena with a new Los Angeles-based start-up called Factual, that is building its business around the con (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Tim HoldonTo some, it may just be that little box attached to your phone system, but to the more "nuanced", their on-hold player holds music, messages, and a one-of-a-kind tool for communicating with customers The (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
[edit: mention how the fix in Python 2.6.3 may have not belonged in 2.6.3 since it is a micro release]Python 2.6.3 has a couple of bugs still lingering that warrant a brown bag 2.6.4 release (should be out before the end of t (Read More)
Alt Search Engines:
During the initial days of the web, directories like Yahoo manually organized the web to find the relevant information. As web grew in size and search engine technology evolved, search engines like Google became the main sour (Read More)
Engadget:
Can you believe it? No, seriously -- can you believe it? Nearly two full years after its surprise introduction to the world, the nüvifone G60 is finally coming to US shores. In an official press release outed today, the Garmi (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters today that the worst of the recession is behind the company and he expects to start doing about one acquisition a month.“Acquisitions are turned on again at Google and we are doing our nor (Read More)
ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide:
Why is it that sales and support seem to have this stereotypical rift?I’ve typically been categorized as an “IT guy”. I’m OK with that label, because I know people believe labels and categories offer some sense of increased (Read More)
Engadget:
By definition, the Qi Smartbook U1000 isn't a smartbook. It's more like a touchscreen MID, but we'll let the semantics slide (just this once). Based on a 624MHz CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a 5-inch touch panel (800 x 480), th (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law, a (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
from Google Reader:
I find myself on the verge of doing, essentially, the last thing I ever wanted to do in my academic career, the thing I most sought to avoid – taking a course, particularly a seminar, on Orientalism.I am to some extent put at (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
The last thing the world needs is another damn URL shortener. There is no money to be made in this business, yet a new one launches pretty much every day. They're all mostly the same, offering some basic analytics like how ma (Read More)
Submitted by lionelane
from Google Reader:
In social media circles, there’s been a lot of talk recently about online influencers — finding and cultivating this relatively new genre of people in hopes of getting them to mention your business or write something favorabl (Read More)