Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity
Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces.
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Does True Knowledge see value in distance from the bubble?
The flurry of attention around yesterday's Microsoft/ Powerset news set me thinking once more about UK-based True Knowledge, which has been compared with Microsoft's latest acquisition.TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher reported last month that nameless venture capital firms were valuing True Knowledge at about £20million ($40million), and circling to invest.
ThomsonReuters' OpenCalais increments to version 2.1
The Calais team over at ThomsonReuters reported the release of Calais version 2.1 earlier today, adding some new entity types, enhanced relevance ranking, integration with Yahoo!
Powerset really does go to Microsoft... but for how much?
Well, it appears that the rumours were true. Powerset and Microsoft are both announcing the deal this evening, with VentureBeat also weighing in on the story.
Kingsley Idehen opens Linked Data Planet in New York City
Recent podcast subject Kingsley Idehen opened the Linked Data Planet conference in New York yesterday morning, demonstrating the evolution of thought and practice from the world of big databases toward the Semantic Web; a journey that he and his company are well positioned to describe.Kingsley began by pointing to some of the well-understood trends that made Web 2.
Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone
May's Semantic Web Gang spoke with Powerset CTO Barney Pell in the week of their big launch last month.The company has followed up on that work, unveiling an iPhone-friendly version of their enhanced Wikipedia search.
Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet.The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering of Press and members of the New York Semantic Web Meetup joined delegates at the two day conference to hear Berners-Lee speak.
Hakia adds PubMed, enhances medical search
In April this year, New York-based Hakia announced an enhancement to their beta web search that focussed upon providing timely and accurate health information to consumers;"For the first time, users will start to get credibility-stamped search results in full view, instead of just popularity-ranked results.Health related searches on the Web are always important, and can even be a matter of life and death.
Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others
On 11 June, Rennsaelaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is hosting a debate to explore the views of luminaries in the evolving Semantic Web. Somewhat unusually, the questions that panellists face will be influenced by "the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world.
Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0.