SEMANTIC WEB NEWS

Facebook IPO Marks The Transition To The Semantic Web
Seeking Alpha
The shape of things to come is still blurred but Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web and president of the W3C Consortium, originally expressed the vision of the Web 3.0, also called Semantic Web, as follows: I ...

"The Object Network": Data Linking for Web APIs
InfoQ.com
InfoQ: What is missing in the Semantic Web or Linked Data standards, or REST's Hypermedia constraint, that the Object Network offers? Well, most developers (including me) don't have the time or the patience to learn or do anything that seems too ...

Postdoctoral Research Positions
Animation World Network
Subthemes include semantic web, technologies for web applications and social media, virtual acoustics, digital imaging, animation, games, media perception and interaction technologies. In addition to personal research work, a postdoctoral researcher is ...

Semantic Technology Key To Mastering Data Growth, Analysis
NetworkComputing.com
Changes in technology over the last 15 years have pushed businesses to adopt the web and field more end user applications, which results in a far more transactions and data on those transactions. The increased volume combined with rapidly dropping data ...

Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Semantic Web
BBC News (blog)
This is now used on all BBC online content and in 2006 we launched the BBC Accessibility Standards and BBC Semantic Mark-up Standards which were developed to improve navigation for screen reader users. To ensure support of legacy assistive technologies ...

TechCentral
SA start-up Gatfol: Siri for search
TechCentral
He says this notion of semantic similarity is of particular interest to institutions like US security agencies that trawl the Web looking for blog posts or tweets or anything else that might prove useful in preemptively detecting an assassination or ...

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Tailor-made search tools for the web
domain-B
Smart apps developed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the semantic analysis of user opinions from the web help businesses keep an eye on feedback For companies, customer feedback is a matter of strategic importance. Smart apps for the semantic analysis ...

Smart Content Reviewed: Text Analytics & Semantic Content Enrichment
CMSWire
The concept of content enrichment is easy to grasp: Every link in this article — Web links are accomplished via the HTML “a” anchor tag — is a bit of content enrichment. And semantic content enrichment? Marie Wallace puts it this way, focusing on ...

E-Commerce Toolkit: Top Tips For the Year Ahead
Power Retail
“Web 3.0 will be white hot in 2012. The semantic web, or Web 3.0 uses intelligent technology to combine content, commerce, community and context, with personalisation, vertical search and remarketing. By integrating the technology to support this, ...

What Happened to the Semantic Web, and What is Possible Until it Arrives?
PR Web (press release)
RDF, OWL, SPARQL and many other technologies have made the Semantic Web a technically viable solution. Its practical viability though has yet to be proven. The adoption rate is slow to non-existent, and those able to implement are rare and fading.

Tim Finin named Presidential Research Professor
Retriever
The group's research covers interactions between mobile and pervasive computing, the semantic web and web 2.0/3.0/4.0, multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence, security/privacy/trust and services and other underlying areas.

TechWeekEurope UK
Siri Rival Evi Launches On Android And iOS
TechWeekEurope UK
According to Technology Review, Evi uses a semantic database which features hundreds of millions of data points developed over several years for web searches. This database has been structured and tagged to add meaning and context and allows Evi to ...
Better than Siri? New virtual helper, Evi, hits marketSmartPlanet.com (blog)
New Virtual Helper Challenges SiriTechnology Review

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Food Meets Technology at TEDxManhattan Changing the Way We Eat
Forbes
Her expertise includes food systems, urban agriculture, open government, open research, the semantic web, open innovation, social entrepreneurship, and social media. Danielle consults on data strategy, digital brand management, consumer engagement, ...

New Crowdfunding Initiative to 'Unglue' Ebooks Launches in Alpha
InfoToday.com
He covers the intersection of technology, libraries, and ebooks, and has written extensively on the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Hellman has assembled an interesting and talented virtual team of people that “come from the worlds of entrepreneurship, ...

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Ron Paul Should Stroll In, Says Web Opinion. So Why Does The Web Get it Wrong?
Forbes
Assuming Razi has that – and he and his team developed the Hakia semantic search engine so have the credentials: Right now, Paul is losing his shine, Gingrich and Romney are neck and neck, and Santorum is lagging, that is on the balance of positive and ...

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Cambridge Semantics Announces 30 Percent Increase in Staff and New Boston Office
PR Web (press release)
Based on the revolutionary flexibility of Semantic Web technologies, Anzo provides unprecedented ease-of-use, speed of implementation, and operational business process integration for just about any formal or informal business activity.

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OutWit Hub 2.1 – A Web Harvesting Power Tool for All
Business Wire (press release)
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original data collection technology, announces the release of the first cross-platform Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect information ...

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Making applicable music connections
Irish Times
The product is aimed at consumers, music services providers (such as Eircom Music) and resellers, and has been given the thumbs up by the influential Semantic Web community. “Most of the technological advantage of our product resides in the way we ...

Visual Revenue Inc. Secures $1.7M Series A Funding
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"Visual Revenue sits at the intersection of real-time data, semantic analysis and web optimization, and seamlessly delivers this ROI-based solution to publishers both large and small," said Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures.

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OutWit Hub 2.1 -- A Web Harvesting Power Tool for All
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original data collection technology, announces the release of the first cross-platform Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect ...

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