NewsSiri Is Live -- And Points the Way To Next Level of Semantic Web Apps
Siri doesn’t yet have covered “Best Gyms/Diet Centers” near its offices, but the first version of the application can help you find (within range of your location) and book restaurants serving the cuisine you fancy, movies and events that meet your time and taste criteria, and taxi services to get you from where you are at point A to where you want to be at Point B – all through natural language voice or text queries. Siri, according to the company, now also is learning how to handle reminders, flights stats and reference questions to take it beyond its V1 self-described status as “Out and About Mobile Entertainment Assistant.” The daily UI redesign comment in Kittlaus' blog is likely literal. Tom Gruber, Siri’s co-founder, talked about Siri’s delivering on the “big think small screen” concept with the Semanticweb Blog back in December, discussing its goal of harnessing the powerful trends of cloud computing, 3G networks, and semantic technologies to help “make people smart at the interface.” There aren't many early comments on the iTunes blog but the few there indicate it is succeeding (e.g. "You don't even need to think of which app to pull up to find information about shows or restaurants or just about any other life situation." Semantic Tech Makes It to Intel Science Talent Search
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The Lab’s co-chairs – K. Krasnow Waterman, who came to MIT as a Sloan Fellow and is a visiting fellow, DIG, CSAIL, MIT, and technology entrepreneur Reed Sturtevant — say they picked a cross-section of judges to ensure that both the technology and business viewpoints were accounted for in picking a winner. They included luminaries ranging from world wide web inventor and MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee and MIT Media Lab professor Alex Pentland, who’s also a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobile information systems, and computational social science, to serial entrepreneur Brian Shin, to VCs Alex Finkelstein from Spark Capital and Austin Westerling of Charles River Ventures, among others. Job Hunting? Try ZoomInfo's New Data Exchange
The service formally launched this month but it’s been running in beta mode since October and so far it’s been downloaded by 13,000 people and has led to the addition of 1 million unique email addresses to ZoomInfo's business roll call. At the current rate the company expects to have more than 10 million newer or updated contacts from this source. “We have a history in the recruiting industry that 9 of the top 10 search firms use us, so in terms of being found by a recruiter it’s important to be up there, “ says Chip Terry, VP and GM of Enterprise Products. ZoomInfo’s history marrying semantic search to deliver up-to-date business intelligence about where the potential contacts you want to reach in your employment hunt really are now, along with user community profile input, is what the company touts as a core value-add in the job finder space today, where proactive networking matters. New Research Helps Executives Get Engaged With the Semantic Web
The SemanticWeb Blog spoke to the author of the report, Mills Davis, founder and managing director of Project10X, a research consultancy specializing in next wave semantic technologies, solutions, and business models, about the research. (The report is the first in a series, and you can find out more about that here )
The Drive To Social Intelligence
SemanticWeb Blog: Is more social data being exposed on the web in semantic web formats, and how can this be leveraged/analyzed to create new value for businesses/other organizations/consumers? Mika: Most social data is unfortunately still either walled off completely, available in HTML only or exposed through proprietary APIs returning non-semantic formats. There has been some consolidation both in technology and market terms, which makes the integration of particular services easier and more efficient. For example, technological "glues" such as the Yahoo Query Language are enabling the average developer to integrate four or five of his/her favorite APIs within an hour. However, providing services that integrate information on a global scale would still run into the problems of insufficient data and incompatible APIs. As an example, major search engines still cannot perform the kind of high precision people search that semantic technologies should enable. (A search for Peter Mika still intermixes results related to the computer scientist and the ballet dancer.) The Semantic Web is Ready For Business
These areas include enterprise BI, and more broadly strategic enterprise IT; web marketing; and newer web 3.0 businesses, says Greaves, who will be speaking on the Semantic Web’s evolution at next week’s Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Greaves has been a key part of that evolution, both with the work he currently has underway at Vulcan’s Project Halo, and in his past life as program manager in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office for the DAML program. DAML developed many of the initial languages and tools that lie at the foundation of the Semantic Web. Here’s Greaves’ take on both the opportunities – and the challenges – that surround the Semantic Web today. Some Timely OpenCalais Updates
In June the company upgraded its service with social tags, which are story descriptors in simple language aimed at helping editors filter news by human interest rather than the standard news categories, such as sports or politics. Now it’s enhancing them in Version 4.3 with more generalized, aggregate tags and with a new feature dubbed News Names. This one hits at the person disambiguation challenge. As it’s described, now when both partial or extended names appear in content, the service will also suggest the most commonly used form of those names. Marketers: Grok Up on Structured Data
Yes, and no, says Scott Brinker, the president and CTO of marketing technology company Ion Interactive. The people within companies who have the Semantic Web technology expertise are starting to realize the importance of “co-opting the marketing department and those with business objectives with this technology, and doing a better job of advocating what those benefits can be,” says Brinker, who will be participating in a session on the Semantic Web in marketing at the Web 3.0 conference later this month. “For marketers and the business side, it’s hard for them to conceptualize the value of data as a marketing tool to the outside world. 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