Press reviews
25.08.2010
I have reviewed several tools to analyze sentiment: their methods varied from manual sentiment setting to textual analysis, emoticons and symbols. Today we are looking at a semantic sentiment analyzer: Opinion Crawl which uses SenseBot (we have mentioned previously) as the semantic analysis engine. Opinion crawl has two large section we’ll review separately: the sentiment tracker (for hot topics news broken into categories) and sentiment search. Opinion Crawl Sentiment Tracker The main... Lesen Sie mehr
25.08.2010
Two former business media managers have joined forces to create a business news site which will provide information and analysis using semantic technologies. Neil Thackray (pictured), who was previously CEO at Nexus Business Media, and Rory Brown, who was previously managing director in marketing at Incisive Media, have been developing Briefing Media Ltd for the last few months. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Thackray said that the company aims to bring together content of interest to... Lesen Sie mehr
23.08.2010
Federated Media, which helps online publishers (including VentureBeat) sell advertising, has acquired technology and hired team members from a startup called TextDigger. FM’s founder and chief executive John Battelle (pictured) said the deal should help the media company strengthen its tech side. TextDigger actually comes from a media background, having been founded by former employees of online news company CNET (now owned by CBS). TextDigger says it uses semantic tools (i.e.,... Lesen Sie mehr
23.08.2010
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University are to develop next-generation internet search tools with a €370,000 grant from a €4m semantic web project led by German software house SAP. The project will develop methodologies and a platform that combines essential features of semantic technologies and business intelligence. Only some of the data posted on the internet can be read by computers. Business users usually have to visit multiple websites to find all the information they need. ... Lesen Sie mehr
23.08.2010
The first incarnation of the web was composed of static websites that linked to each other and search engines to help you find sites of interest. Web 2.0 brought a social element to the web, with users sharing, commenting, and interacting through sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. The future web, the "semantic web," or Web 3.0, will embed meaning within digital information so that any given page can be understood by computers as well as people. The inventor of the World Wide... Lesen Sie mehr
22.08.2010
Although we tend to think of the Cloud in centralizing terms, where hosting an app ‘in the Cloud’ means moving it to a remote data-centre, in contrast it is actually part of an overall trend of technology becoming much more distributed. From entirely standalone mainframes through the first PC LANs to the n-tier web architecture computing has continued to explode outwards. The ‘X Internet’ represents the next stage in this evolution. It’s been used to refer to... Lesen Sie mehr
22.08.2010
Information engineering at RIKEN extends the evolution of life into the digital realm Databases are becoming increasingly important in the life sciences as a key tool for deriving results. The Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering Division (BASE) is drawing worldwide attention for its SciNeS information infrastructure for handling the vast amounts of data generated through routine research in the life sciences. “A... Lesen Sie mehr
20.08.2010
Jim Tobin is president of Ignite Social Media, where he works work with clients including Microsoft, Intel, Nature Made, The Body Shop, Disney and more implementing social media marketing strategies. He is also author of the book Social Media is a Cocktail Party: Why You Already Know the Rules of Social Media Marketing. Over the last three years, social media marketers have gotten a lot more sophisticated about the programs they deploy and how they’re measured. Platforms like Sysomos and... Lesen Sie mehr
18.08.2010
David Matthewman becomes distance learning organisation’s inaugural chief information officer The former chief technology officer of government web portal Directgov has joined Open University as its first ever chief information officer. David Matthewman joins the distance-learning establishment at a time of great enthusiasm for the potential of online education. “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” Microsoft... Lesen Sie mehr
17.08.2010
There's a new search engine on the scene that thinks it's time consumers "got some answers." The recently debuted Swingly is designed to give searchers direct answers instead of links to pages with relevant information. In a blog post, Swingly explained yesterday that it aims to be the search alternative for consumers who want the facts. "While keyword-based search is great for a lot of things, there are times when it just lets us all down," says Swingly. This... Lesen Sie mehr
17.08.2010
Library software provider's decision to branch out into 'linked data' is beginning to pay off, says chief technology officer Ian Davis For the first 35 of its 40-odd years, Talis was – and still is – one of the UK’s leading providers of library management software. Its roots, therefore, lie in helping organisations with lots of information make it easier to navigate and manage. In 2005, the company decided to take this focus in a new direction by developing its... Lesen Sie mehr
16.08.2010
Facebook has bought bought semantic search startup Chai Labs, according to AllThingsD, which reports that the amount was “likely to be around $10 million and directed at acquiring talent,” although neither company has confirmed the deal. Founded by former Google AdSense executive Gokul Rajaram — who we assume already knows at least some of the many ex-Googlers at Facebook — the company has raised $2.4 million, including from some very well-known Silicon Valley investors,... Lesen Sie mehr
14.08.2010
For anyone who thinks China is a superpower in only the political arena, they are missing the larger geopolitical picture. The Internet is the 21st Century's newest battlefield where countries will fight for dominance over other nations. As content and data-mining transitions from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, or from Social Media to the Semantic Web, most thought leaders are betting on China as the front-runner in leading this charge. Internet Hegemony Internet hegemony is being led by the Chinese,... Lesen Sie mehr
13.08.2010
The semantic web (Web 3.0) is coming to a Government 2.0 app near you! In one of the first International Strategic Alliances in the Gov 2.0 / Gov 3.0 space, Silberberg Innovations is announcing our partnership with Bubbleideas Semantic, of Singapore. We are extremely excited about this collaboration and both companies will be seeing tremendous leverage arising out of the alliance. Government 2.0 is taking the world by a storm. Citizen driven campaigns, open-source projects, large companies,... Lesen Sie mehr
12.08.2010
Google has finally responded to widespread criticism of the framework it developed with Verizon for addressing the issue of net neutrality. Unfortunately, Google’s blog post on the matter borrows heavily from the semantic gymnastics practiced by the telecommunications industry Google has cozied up to. Google Hasn’t Sold Out The post explains that Google hasn’t “sold the tech industry out,” but instead, was engaged in a form of realpolitik by getting in bed... Lesen Sie mehr
09.08.2010
What the evangelists of the Semantic Web say is true: the bigger the web gets, the harder it is to find what we want to know. To that end, the perennial concern for providing "answers" has again popped up-and this time indicators point toward a substantive change in the tone of the web, along the lines of the paradigm shift from directories to search engines. Two recent developments typify this change-Facebook Questions and Ask.com. Facebook Questions Facebook Questions is a new... Lesen Sie mehr
08.08.2010
Already before the official start of its Chrome OS, Internet giant Google gets serious competition: The development team of the first semantic Internet operating system semYOU was able to create a novel WebOS that not only fundamentally simplifies Internet use but also re-invents it from the ground up: The semYOU desktop presents a totally new kind of software use and makes all important functions available "on demand" via a mouse click. While Google plans to sell the applications for... Lesen Sie mehr
07.08.2010
Citizen Dan, an open source system for local governments and organizations to publish and visualize community data and content, was unveiled today by its developer, Structured Dynamics (SD). Along with the software, SD also released a working demo site and full documentation. "This release is really exciting for us since it is the first instance of our comprehensive open semantic framework," said Michael Bergman, Structured Dynamics' CEO. "OSF itself is the culmination of... Lesen Sie mehr
05.08.2010
For most of the history of the Web, it's been about pages and links. This simple yet profoundly powerful structure has led to many of the most important capabilities of the Internet including search, analytics, network effects, and other valuable features and outcomes. For their part, enterprise intranets have largely based themselves on this model using the same technologies, eventually going on to craft special standards on top of the Web for their own requirements for things like... Lesen Sie mehr
03.08.2010
New report details value proposition for using semantic Web technologies. The evolution of the Web has brought great change to the insurance industry in the past two decades, both in cost reduction possibilities and in insurers’ value to consumers. As insurers uncover opportunities derived from Web-based technologies, yet another branch of the Internet tree beckons with a golden apple. The “semantic web” has the potential to deliver even more change—and... Lesen Sie mehr
03.08.2010
When I read a recent article on Facebook ’s plan to offer a question-and-answer feature (as do several other players in the search space), two thoughts immediately ran through my mind. The first was to wonder about the possibility that the proposed model will actually work, and the second was how it might make money. (The skeptic in me looks for the problems before embracing the possibilities.) Here is my take on the short-term outcome of Facebook's plan. The initial difficulty of... Lesen Sie mehr
03.08.2010
If you measured the state of the economy by the number of new and potentially disruptive technologies on the market, you would think we’d be in an economic boom. Despite the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the flow of disruptive technologies in the market has steadied if not increased during the past couple of years. In large part, that trend is fueled by many of the side effects of the terrible economy, such as an increase in competition, decrease in supply and... Lesen Sie mehr
27.07.2010
Ask.com hopes to tap the knowledge of its end users to provide better answers for people who ask questions at its website, the company will announce Tuesday. Ask.com was historically a site where users could submit search queries in the form of a question, and up to 40 percent of its searches are still conducted in that way, according to Tony Gentile, Ask.com's senior vice president of product management. The company has amassed a database of 500 million question-and-answer pairings that... Lesen Sie mehr
27.07.2010
Google's recent acquisition of Metaweb may be the signal that the Semantic Web has finally arrived While most emerging technologies tend to happen quickly, one that has been "emerging" for a really long time is the Semantic Web. However, Google's recent acquisition of Metaweb may be the signal that the Semantic Web has finally arrived. For those who don't know what it is, the Semantic Web is the long held vision of web creator Tim Berners-Lee of a web that is... Lesen Sie mehr
26.07.2010
Anyone who has tried to track dozens of Twitter streams, hundreds of Facebook updates or thousands of blog posts simultaneously knows that the social web can be an intimidating — and never-ending — ocean of information, one that constantly threatens to swamp us. (There’s a reason Twitter and other social networks call the APIs they use to provide all their data a “firehose.”) A startup called Swift River is one of a number of new services that are trying to find... Lesen Sie mehr