Taking on Google: Is Semantic Technology the Answer? 

A growing number of entrepreneurs and investors promise a next-generation Internet that is organized, simple to use and makes it easy for people to find things. The so-called semantic web will be based ... on search technology that will enable people to type in their questions using everyday language. Developers of next generation search engines say their technology will “understand” the language within those queries—much more precisely than Internet giant Google’s technology. The new search engines will then scour databases that have already “read” documents from across the web to find the best matches. Specific answers can be found for queries such as “Which is the best oil company in the world?” or differentiate between “movies by women,” and “movies about women.” That’s the goal of a handful of semantic search startups that hope to change the way people look for information online. But their greatest challenge will be taking on Google, which vaulted to the forefront of the Internet sea   [More...] [Less...]

Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web 

September 21, 2007 Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web By Sean Michael Kerner In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click ... a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives. But what about context? What about connecting related information and content in a semantic context? The hyperlink of the early era isn't enough. Enter Microformats , which offer the promise of helping Web content owners enable users to connect the disparate dots that connect content in a semantic way. To be more precise and borrowing from the official Microformats.org definition, "Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in Web pages." Though the term "microformats" may not yet be mainstream, mainstream vendors have taken notice. Big names like Technorati, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Digg, and Yahoo among countless others are all at work trying to make   [More...] [Less...]

Everybody | Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags 

Welcome to Faviki! Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms . This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's ... largest collection of knowledge. Thanks to DBpedia , which extracts structured information from Wikipedia and represents it in a flexible data model, these tags are reference to objects which are categorized automatically, keeping your and your friend's bookmarks and interests well organized. Faviki is a public beta now. Feel free to try it ( see demo ) and invite friends you think would be interested, and please remember that we love feedback - you can send it here .   [More...] [Less...]

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GroupSwim: SaaS-Style Collaboration - ReadWriteWeb 

Knowledge is everywhere - be it within individuals, in Salesforce, via Google, in emails etc Search sucks - it's hard, it's not semantic and everyone has different ideas how to use it Knowledge is locked ... in people heads, so an individual doesn't know who is an expert on any one particular subject Other offerings are difficult to use and expensive So what does GroupSwim offer? Their solution has: A nice Web 2.0 interface An open architecture that allows it to grow, adapt and morph at will The benefit of leveraging community intelligence A robust enterprise grade architecture How does it work? Once a user creates an account, they can create multiple communities within their account. This has two benefits - it means a business can have different communities for different parts of the business, but it also means that an individual user, with one single sign on, can access all of the groups they are subscribed to. This is all nice but not unique, GroupSwim's main benefit comes from its sema   [More...] [Less...]