July 02, 2009

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Happy (Data) Independence Day

Semantic Web: Calls for freeing government data seem to be multiplying, even as the federal IT Dashboard goes live.

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Semantics for Spies, Spooks and Secret Agents

Semantic Web: Software lets homeland security and intelligence agencies collect, integrate and analyze diverse types of information to solve crimes and get alerts.

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Semanti Adds a Semantic Layer on Top of Your Search

Instead of trying to be a new go-to search engine, Semanti is a Firefox browser plug-in that operates within your existing search engine.

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Happy (Data) Independence Day

Semantic Web: Calls for freeing government data seem to be multiplying, even as the federal IT Dashboard goes live. [more Semantic Web News]

Semantics for Spies, Spooks and Secret Agents

Semantic Web: Software lets homeland security and intelligence agencies collect, integrate and analyze diverse types of information to solve crimes and get alerts. [more Semantic Web News]

Linked Data, Web of Data, and the Semantic Web

The Semantic Abyss Blog: Thoughts and observations on the distinction between these three related concepts. [more Semantic Web Insight]

Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?

ZDNET Collaboration 2.0 Blog: With the term ‘Web 2.0′ enjoying its fifth birthday, the web cognoscenti need new terminology to help define what’s coming up next. [more Semantic Web News]

The Semantic Web: a Low-Fat, No-Nonsense Introduction

Notes on Web Evolution Blog: The Semantic Web is a broad term that denotes the annotation of data on the Internet and the operations these annotations will allow. The annotations better describe an object and relationships between objects. [more Semantic Web News]

Semanti Adds a Semantic Layer on Top of Your Search

Instead of trying to be a new go-to search engine, Semanti is a Firefox browser plug-in that operates within your existing search engine. [more Semantic Web News]

Video: Introduction to the Semantic Web

Manu Sporny: You don't need to be a web developer or blogger to understand this short intro. [more Semantic Web News]

Yahoo, DERI Develop Common Tag for Semantic Web

Siliconrepublic.com: A new way to enhance web content for the semantic web -– called Common Tag -– has been developed at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in NUI Galway in collaboration with major internet firms. [more Semantic Web News]

Using Semantics to Stay in Tune with Music Lovers

The Echo Nest uses semantic technology to extract meaningful terms from data about artists and tracks. [more Semantic Web News]

NYT to Release Thesaurus and Enter Linked Data Cloud

The New York Times Open Blog: At last week’s Semantic Technology Conference, we announced our intention to publish The New York Times thesaurus under a license that will allow the community to both use it and contribute back to it. The results will, in time, prepare The Times to enter the linked data cloud. [more Semantic Web News]

The Need For Innovation In Corporate Web Site Search

CIOpedia: As IT leaders we often see opportunities for innovation in the technology assets developed and managed within our organizations. Such is the case for the following proposition around corporate web site search, which may be relevant considering the recent introductions of Bing, WolframAlpha and the word “semantic” back in the news again. [more Semantic Web]

The Best Intranets, Up Close and Personal

Intranet Journal: One of the difficulties faced by intranet managers globally is getting to see other intranets. The Intranet Benchmarking Forum has solved the problem with virtual tours of the top sites. [more Semantic Web News]

What Is Web 3.0, Anyway?

Brain Traffic Blog: Now that the social media tools that define Web 2.0 have moved into the mainstream -- and believe me, it’s mainstream now that our moms are on Facebook -- the interactive community has moved on to the next big thing: Web 3.0. [more Semantic Web News]

Why Semanti Smart Search is Going to Rock Your Social Web Experience

Danny Brown Blog: While Bing has been making the news recently, new web browser add-on Semanti Smart Social Search looks set to take search to another level again. [more Semantic Web News]

Bing's Bling Not Ready for Prime Time

TomMicrosoft's first TV commercials for its new search engine leave us searching for answers. [more Semantic Web News]

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