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Federated Media Buys TextDigger: Like Facebook's Purchase of Chai Labs, This Acquisition Speaks to Sem Tech's Value In Advertising Ventures

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It’s been a little over a week since Facebook acquired semantic tech vendor Chai Labs for a reported $10 million. Founded by former Google AdSense executive Gokul Rajaram, the buy of the structured content extraction system and search platform was seen by some as giving Facebook an edge in delivering Google-like ads around improved editorial content – including opportunities to help companies that maintain pages on the social network dynamically deliver materials suitable to SEO queries.

Well, there’s more news that touches on the semantic advertising acquisition front today – Federated Media, which helps online publishers sell ads, has acquired a portion of startup TextDigger's technology. Founded by Tim Musgrove, who will now take on the role of chief scientist at Federated Media, the SaaS service pulls together themes across documents it searches, without those themes being pre-defined. It provides a way for publishers to get more value out of existing inventory, and ideally more pull with search engines, by dynamically pulling together content whose previous inter-relationships weren’t obvious into custom landing pages. Also, its semantic smarts can analyze content to determine what words to add to articles to boost search engine relevancy.

Customers include the San Jose Mercury News, which uses it to automate tagging stories and generating topic pages.

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Android Next Mobile Platform for Adaptive Blue's GetGlue App

androidphone2.jpg What a yo-yo act the last few days have been for Google and its Android platform. The downs -- the ’Net aflutter with accusations that Google colluded with or at least kowtowed to Verizon on net neutrality for the sake of its mobile OS, and Oracle launching a lawsuit against the search engine giant for Java patent infringement in the mobile OS – collided with the ups. That included research firm Gartner pointing to a 50 percent second-quarter rise in sales for Android-based phones to move Google’s OS ahead of Apple’s IOS-based iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and Digitimes Research's statement that it expects Android smartphone shipments to hit the 55 million unit worldwide mark this year.

Well, put another tick in the up column: AdaptiveBlue has made its GetGlue semantic app available for the Android platform, following up its iPhone debut. It hadn’t been the next OS on AdaptiveBlue’s agenda to get the mobilized version of the service, which lets users check in to share books or movies or other media they consume, see what their friends are watching or listening to, and get on-the-go suggestions of the same. But vp of business development Fraser Kelton says the Android crowd couldn’t wait.

“We were getting email to the tune of ten or more per day saying you need to support this – bold, all caps, exclamation point emails,” he says. “That level of intense anticipation wasn’t something we thought that the community had.” He suspects part of the appeal is that, as with the iPhone, Android devices are beckoning primarily to tech-friendly consumer users who get excited about social apps.

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Yes Virginia, There Are Semantic Web Jobs (Even If There Aren't Many Others)

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Last week we took a look at a new way to do some research in the jobs space thanks to TrueKnowledge culling jobs data from the deep web.

Alas, the sad truth seems to be that while you can leverage semantic web technologies to help you research the jobs space, that doesn’t mean it’s going to get any easier any time soon to find a job – at least in most sectors.

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True Knowledge Draws In (Some) Jobs Info From The Deep Web


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The Semantic Web blog has explored job opportunities that are emerging for those in the RDF/SPRQL/ontology/etc. space (in a few articles, such as this and this). And we’ve also explored how some job search engines themselves are or are becoming more semantic to service industries of every stripe (see here and here).

Now there’s also a venue emerging for anyone who’s just wondering about what he might earn if he ever can get a job as a civil engineer in Decatur, or maybe who is just generally interested in studying the pay scale for different occupations. Semantic technology vendor True Knowledge posted on its blog this week that it’s been combing the dark web (aka the deep web) to directly answer questions related to jobs data.

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CMS Vendors Have Opportunity To Get Semantic

iksimage.png The IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack) Open Source Project, a European Commission-funded effort to bring semantic technologies to vendors’ content management systems, is moving into its next stage this week. Helsinki will be the site of its Semantic Editor Hackathon, an event for testing some of the basic technologies the group has been working on for building a semantically-capable text editor that could be dropped in in place of common tools like TinyMCE and FCKEditor. The forum also is an opportunity for generating new ideas about how different tools can enter the picture at the editing phase for faster and smarter indexing and tagging of content.

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Semantic Search Experience As Community Q&A

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MyTipTop.com, a recent addition to the FeelTipTop.Com semantic engine – which extracts data in real time, mostly from Twitter posts, to match search terms – wants to help make search a community Q&A experience.

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Semantic Valley Consortium Wants to Help Business Get Going With the Semantic Web

semvalleypix.jpg There’s a new semantic web association in town – well, not this town, but the northern Trentino Valley in Italy. Founding members of the Semantic Valley Consortium include tech players Expert System, IBM and Oracle in partnership with Italian universities, such as the Università degli Studi di Trento, with strong programs in computational linguistics.

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Google News Gets Gonged

Google has updated its News feature. At first look into the behind-the-scenes mechanics, it doesn’t seem to be leveraging any specific or cool semantic technology to align stories with what users indicate they’re interested in reading about, and from what sources. But we're doing a write-up just the same, because the revise is generating a lot of angst among the Google News crowd. A lot of them want their old Google News back.

Below a few samples of the outrage:
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Dig a bit deeper into the messages and you’ve got users complaining that it’s a ploy to create a more ad-sales friendly layout; that what was a nice, clean and easy-to-absorb web page is now a busy mess that’s actually more splattered with stuff they don't care about; and that if users wanted personalized news instead of pre-categorized news, darn it, they’d go to one of the tons of other sites that let them get that.

The change affects only U.S. Googlers as of this point. And it's quite possible many of them like the change -- the dissidents are always the most vocal in the online world. But hey, if you are one of the folks unhappy with Google's revision, apparently you can choose Canadian English as one of the other News Editions options and get your old Google News back, one tipster on the message board reports.



Yolink: A Shout Out For a Search API

yolinkimage.jpg Yolink has been around for awhile, as a browser add-on that lets you search better within search results. It mines the hyperlinks of returned results, navigating through the data within those pages and online documents, to bring you right back to the block of text in the content that fits the context of your keyword search.

But that’s not where the action is going to be – an API for search is, it thinks. So this Tuesday sees the formal launch of the Yolink API, which will let others apply its ability to, on the fly, look at content behind links and surface the key information behind keyword searches. The greatest value will be for multi-task, multi-step searches that go beyond the casual user’s quests – research purposes, for example. The decision to go the API route, says Brian Cheek, director of business development at parent company TigerLogic (30 years in the information management trade), took into account the fast-moving conditions around semantic search.

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RIF Rules: W3C Publishes RIF As New Recommendation Standard

"It is done - RIF (Rule Interchange Format) is a new recommendation standard of W3C and part of the Semantic Web stack." That's the word just in to us from our friend Adrian Paschke who leads the Corporate Semantic Web project at the Free University of Berlin.

RIF is a standard for building rule systems on the Web to allow translations between data sets in different vocabularies in a distributed, transparent and scalable manner. It's important for linked data applications, for instance, as it's only possible to find data using the same vocabularies, and RIF translates between them.

Described in the release announcing its publishing by the W3C, it is:

- A new standard for the interoperation and interchange between various rule languages and rule engines;
- A concrete XML serialization language for, e.g., model-based languages such as OMG PRR, OMG SBVR, and the RIF RuleML subfamily of the overarching RuleML language family;
- A standard for rules on the (Semantic) Web supporting data integration, and for business rules, making businesses more agile.


Previously

Primal Makes Semantics About the Consumer

Strengthening The Semantic Web's Foundations

Why Adaptive Semantics Matters -- A Lot -- to The Huffington Post

Buying Into Semantics: Round 4

Elsevier Scoops Up Collexis

Live Matrix Goes Live In Private Beta

Institute of Web Science Victim of U.K. Budget Cuts

The Ellerdale Project:Real-Time Semantic Search Is Cool For Consumers But Has Business In Its Sights

XBRL Across The Language Divide

Making a Semantic Web Business Case at Pfizer

Semantic Web Startups: VC Funding's Hard To Get, But Opportunites Are Out There (Part 2)

Evri Rolls Up Twine, Plans Mobile Semantic Web Service For Android, iPhone

Superb Film By Kate Ray: Use To Introduce People To The Semantic Web

AdaptiveBlue Fills In Some OpenGraph Holes

Pew That: Getting to the Semantic Web Won't Be Easy

Facebook and W3C Connect; RDF Schema Follows (Article Page Types Added Too)

Semantic Web Startups: VC Funding's Hard To Get, But Opportunites Are Out There (Part 1)

Faveeo: Twitter + Faceted Search

RDFa Momentum Continues, Part Of HTML5

A Bloomberg-Like Terminal, Social- And Semantic-Web Style

Will Yahoo Monkey Around With Open Graph?

What Does Siri's Acquisition by Apple Mean -- And Where Might SRI Innovations Next Lead?

How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Semantic Web

Semantic Drupal -- State of Drupal keynote, DrupalConSF 2010

80Legs Adds Preconfigured Semantic, Social Media Web Data Crawls

Peer39's New CEO Sees Untapped Potential For Semantic Advertising

Live Matrix: Next On Deck From Twine Founder Spivack

U.N.’s FAO Aims At Agricultural Services Based On Semantics – Across Multiple Languages

Businesses Were Recruiting At New York Semantic Web MeetUp

Semantic Web Rules Britannia? That's Still Open To Debate

Location, Location, Location

CIOs Care About the Semantic Web

Taking Search -- And Meaning -- Beyond English

Find, Analyze, and Act: Streamline Efforts With COGITO Focus

CEOs Hunsinger and Spivack Talk About Evri's Acquisition of Twine

Twine Bought By Evri

Get More Out of User-Generated Content With Bueda Tag Transformation API

True Knowledge Builds Up Its Beta

The MultiLingual Semantic Web Matters For Businesses And EveryDay Web Users

Factoetum Wants To Be Your Internet Servant

Workin' on RDFa

Web Recipe: Add Pinch of Semantic Flavor

Siri Is Live -- And Points the Way To Next Level of Semantic Web Apps

Semantic Tech Makes It to Intel Science Talent Search

TipTop Helps Shoppers Sort Out Amazon Products

MIT Linked Data Product Development Lab: Cool Ideas With Real Business Potential

Job Hunting? Try ZoomInfo's New Data Exchange

New Research Helps Executives Get Engaged With the Semantic Web

The Drive To Social Intelligence

The Semantic Web is Ready For Business

Some Timely OpenCalais Updates

Marketers: Grok Up on Structured Data

Exploring Search

The Power of Semantic Advertising

Is Your Business Preparing for the Performance Economy?

Siri Co-Founder Gruber Talks Big Think, Small Screen

Web 3.0 Leaders Look to the Year Ahead

TextWise Simplifies Patent Research Processes

Holiday Hopes: Defeat Cancer

A Semantic Web Christmas

Microsoft's EntityCube Lets You Explore Entity Relationships

Filling Jobs Can Be As Hard As Finding Them: Monster.Com Hopes To Fix That Problem For Recruiters

EVRI's Next Steps To Help Consumers Deal With Too Much Information

Part II: News The Enterprise Can Use

News the Enterprise Can Use

Semantic Web Challenge Winner Reflects Tech’s Evolution As Natural Part of the Consumer Web

Data.gov.uk Soon to See Light of Day

Bing Hopes to Get Search Bang From Wolfram Alpha

Feed(ly)ing The Enterprise

SiteScreen Takes the ASP Route

AdaptiveBlue's Glue Guns For Developers

Data Integration, Courtesy of Semantics

Explaining the Semantic Web

iPhone Users Loves Them Some Wolfram-Alpha

Glue Gets Game

XBRL, Semantic Web Technologies Complement Each Other

Encouraging Signs for Semantic-Related Jobs, Indeed

Opening Doors to a World of Ideas and Research

Better Health – For Users, Publishers and Advertisers - Through Semantics

Using Semantics to Solve the Weekend Movie Dilemma

Semantic Tools Helps Grassroots.org Grow

Follow the Money with Redesigned Recovery.gov

Building the DocumentCloud With the Help of OpenCalais

MBI Means Business For the Semantic Web

Semantic Web Start-up Computes Event Odds

WolframAlpha, Twine Look To What's Next

Semantics Have Some Magic In Gartner's Quadrant

Inbenta Brings Natural Language Search Within Reach

80legs May Give Semantic Start-ups a Foot in the Door

Peer39 Updates Semantic Advertising Platform

Twitter News and Analysis, the Semantic Way

The People Push Open Government Forward

Semantic Video at Google

Triple The Fun in Linked Data Challenge

Content Network Hopes Semantic Web Provides Edge With Advertisers

Smart.fm Wants To Lead a Revolution in Learning

OpenCalais Brings Semantic Metatagging to Oracle Databases

Matchmaker Bintro Matches Up With More Ontologies

Semantic Search Engine Aggregates Health Content

POWDER Is a W3C Recommendation

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