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09.03.2010
Springpad, a rival to Evernote's popular cross-platform note-taking service, has just bumped the competition up a notch with a new release that integrates semantic technology to automatically enhance the notes you save with relevant info. What this means is that if you save a movie, Springpad is smart enough to know it's a movie and it will offer you showtimes. If you save a product, Springpad displays price comparisons and links to shopping sites. Save a recipe and you get menu... Lesen Sie mehr
09.03.2010
Twenty years into the life of the world wide web, one scientist's idea for a simple way of sharing information with colleagues has come a very long way. It's been an accidental miracle, growing without much direction from committees, governments or corporations. But now it's on the verge of another transformation. BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been talking to the scientists who are trying to predict and even guide its future. A SMARTER WEB Whether we call... Lesen Sie mehr
08.03.2010
The World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet standards group at MIT, is expected to announce today that Jeffrey Jaffe has been named chief executive. Jaffe was most recently executive vice president and chief technology officer at Novell Inc., of Waltham. Jaffe will work with Tim Berners-Lee, who will remain director of the organization, also known as W3C. The top job has been vacant since Steve Bratt left to be CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, an organization founded by Berners-Lee in... Lesen Sie mehr
08.03.2010
If you live in the US or Canada you probably know that you can dial 911 for emergency services and 411 for directory assistance. However, did you know that many communities in these two countries offer 311 service as well? The Open311 project promises to bring 311 services into the digital age. What is 311? The 311 service, where it's offered, routes people to a call center which in turn connects them with the appropriate non-emergency municipal service. For example, if you see an armed... Lesen Sie mehr
08.03.2010
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the Web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development. In the 1980s, scientists at CERN were asking themselves how massive, complex, collaborative projects --... Lesen Sie mehr
05.03.2010
Brands that had tied or placed their ads next to Toyota ads have not been a happy bunch since the car maker’s troubles became public. These companies - say, tire manufacturers or car dealerships - are part of a group of brands that have found themselves unfairly tarnished due to association. "Brand reputations can be tarnished and damaged very quickly if they become associated with 'negative' content," Amiad Solomon, CEO and founder of Peer39, tells MarketingVOX. ... Lesen Sie mehr
05.03.2010
What's the best way to leverage the most information out of 140 characters? Should you get to learning Mandarin so each character can be a word? Or start forming German-style pseudo-word hashtags to get the point across? Or perhaps, you could parse the natural language, encapsulate the tweet in meta data and go from there. We've already seen additional information stacked onto our Tweets, as with the geo-location API released last November, but Cascaad's SuperTweet API does more... Lesen Sie mehr
05.03.2010
March 5, 2010 - 2010 may bring some relief to the economic decline, and indications show that companies are starting to shift their focus from survival to revival. Vickie Farrell, Manager, Market Strategy, Business Intelligence Solutions, HP Software & Solutions, explained that the list of trends was developed in part out of surveys HP conducted at popular business intelligence and data warehousing conferences throughout 2009. “The responses reveal that people are getting... Lesen Sie mehr
05.03.2010
Pfizer has partnered with two semantic web technology firms to rapidly develop and deploy a proof-of-concept system for integrating drug discovery data. Vijay Bulusu, senior manager of R&D Informatics at Pfizer, discussed the system, called Information Dissemination Extraction and Aggregation, or IDEA, at last week's Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. Bulusu said that the project, intended to serve as a "real-world example" of semantic... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they are developing a computer language that will produce flexible and dynamic Web security. Research scientist Lalana Kagal and her team members Fatih Turkmen and Matt Cherian said the standard policy language is being designed to provide security when information is shared between agencies, countries and organizations. Kagal said one of the primary tools being used is Semantic Web technology, an encryption algorithm that allows the addition... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
March 5, 2010 —Toronto Google has set its eyes on mobile and wireless communications, and its new strategy to “put a cloud in the hands of a cell phone user” will disrupt the telecom and media industry in a drastic way, according to a newly released report by Red Mobile Co. Google already sees more search performed using handsets than PCs in developing countries. Since the launch of its Android platform, over two dozen device manufacturers have committed to it. Shipments of... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
Ontario-headquartered enterprise content management vendor Open Text has announced its wish to acquire fellow Canadian content management specialist Nstein. Given Open Text's track record of acquiring competitors such as Hummingbird and, latterly, Vignette, on the surface this could be seen as a bid for greater market share. However, we believe it is a strategic bid for Nstein's text mining and semantic search technologies, which will enable Open Text to continue to compete against the... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has been busily building out the data center infrastructure to support its cloud computing initiatives, but hasn't spent as much time on cloud messaging. But now, we're starting to get a sense of where the software giant's priorities lie in the cloud. In a Thursday speech at the University of Washington in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined a set of principles he sees governing his... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
Social recommendation service GetGlue, which started out as a browser plugin, has recently added some new features to the Firefox and Google Chrome GetGlue add-ons, including a service called “Glue Tips.” How the GetGlue add-ons traditionally work is that when you are on a page like IMDB or Amazon.com, you can get certain information about a product or article within a little JavaScript GetGlue pop-up. This pop-up lets you see which friends have liked an album, read reviews, watched... Lesen Sie mehr
04.03.2010
Culture is disappearing into the web, warns author Author and futurist Mark Pesce gave Wellington’s Webstock conference a personal vision of the future of the internet and its relationship with the world’s real objects and people. He started with an account of his experiences of the early days of the web. Its rapid growth in use from 1994 on owed more to the web’s “seductive human face” than the technology behind it, he says. “The web exploded [in the 90s]... Lesen Sie mehr
03.03.2010
Many of you probably never heard of the Ellerdale project until this week, when Twitter announced it was one of the company's new partners in receiving the "firehose" of Twitter data, a full feed stream of tweets that was, prior to Monday, only available to the major players like Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft. What Ellerdale is now doing with Twitter's 50 million tweets per day is definitely interesting - the service uses an intelligent data-parsing engine to analyze the... Lesen Sie mehr
03.03.2010
Tom Mitchell, who leads the machine learning department Carnegie Mellon, has been applying machine learning technology to help develop the Semantic Web. In a recent interview, Mitchell spoke about the application of machine learning analysis to MRI brain scans to determine in real-time what a person is thinking. Unfortunately, his comments on the Semantic Web didn't make it into final cust of that story. Here's what he had to say on the subject: In what way is your research in... Lesen Sie mehr
02.03.2010
Dr. Lalana Kagal and fellow researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a standard policy language to achieve flexible and dynamic Web security when information is shared between agencies, countries and organizations. The research, funded under the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program, supports recent Ph.D. graduates and encourages basic research like that of Kagal and her team members, Fatih Turkmen and Matt Cherian. This research aims... Lesen Sie mehr
01.03.2010
Almost every major consumer tech player is betting on the explosion of mobile Internet, but most of us still can’t envision life without our laptops. Sure, iPhones and Blackberrys are great, but is this big paradigm shift really going to happen? First, Silicon Valley’s big bets: competitors like Google (GOOG), News Corp (NWS) and Microsoft (MSFT) are angling to dominate the mobile space in advertising, music and hardware, and Apple (AAPL) COO Tim Cook recently rebranded the... Lesen Sie mehr
01.03.2010
In last week's blog, we talked about the value of Master Data Management (MDM) and how MDM can provide a consolidated view of key information inside the company such as the customers, products, or suppliers. This week, we will look at another alternative approach to providing a "single view" of important business information, which is one of the most common requests received in an IT department. Typically, the marketing or sales organization will start an initiative to cross-sell... Lesen Sie mehr
25.02.2010
POSC Caesar Association (PCA) and FIATECH have agreed on a single “Joint Operational Reference Data” project plan to create in 2010 a stable, scalable and commercially-viable operation of the ISO15926 reference data system and associated services. Boards of both member organizations have already agreed funding for the front-end phase to start in March, with a governance board and project manager already in place. A key deliverable of this phase is the business model for the... Lesen Sie mehr
24.02.2010
In the current era of scientific research, efficient communication of information is paramount. As such, the nature of scholarly and scientific communication is changing; cyberinfrastructure is now absolutely necessary and new media are allowing information and knowledge to be more interactive and immediate. One approach to making knowledge more accessible is the addition of machine-readable semantic data to scholarly articles. Results: The Word add-in presented here will assist authors in... Lesen Sie mehr
24.02.2010
When we think about audiences, we usually refer to people with different interests or intentions, such as researchers or customers; computers or other applications can be seen as a type of audience as well. From the famous example cited by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wouldn't it be useful if my calendar application could read and interpret my photographs' properties so it could place the photos into a timeline, or if it could understand my bank statements' properties so... Lesen Sie mehr
22.02.2010
Millions of us rely upon online information to inform purchasing decisions, but the ad hoc fashion in which free-text descriptions of products and services are interpreted and offered up by mainstream search engines makes this a far less accurate process than we might wish. Working quietly behind the scenes the GoodRelations vocabulary is setting out to do something about this, and with adopters such as Best Buy already onboard they’re off to a great start. Last week, I spoke with Martin... Lesen Sie mehr
19.02.2010
The Super Bowl may be the biggest event in sport (except, of course, everywhere outside of the U.S.), but everyone knows that the battle that occurs each year on Super Bowl Sunday doesn't take place on the field. It takes place during the commercial breaks. The battle for consumer hearts and minds costs a lot of money, and it increasingly involves the internet, which is where much of the buzz about Super Bowl commercials can be found. Semantic web service provider OpenAmplify has applied its... Lesen Sie mehr