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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:28:41 -0700

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.

However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French s�rendipicit� or s�rendipit� but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Italian serendipit�; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipit�t; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate). (source Wikipedia)

Semantics Incorporated: Search: Statistics vs. Semantics. And so the Battle Begins...

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:52:26 -0700

The Semantic Web gang gathered this month to discuss the recent launch of Wolfram Alpha and the endorsement of RDFa by Google.

My impression of Wolfram, to talk about it for a second, is that it fills a clear white space in the search engine arena, a space I would divide up into 2 sub-fields

Something Wiki This Way Comes: Linking is a Good Thing

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:37:02 -0700

there are barriers in the adoption of Linked Data whose measure of success and effectiveness will depend directly on its ubiquity. One big problem is that many organizations value their data and quite naturally wish to protect it. Propriety and intellectual capital are profound cultural barriers to linked data that I, for one, do not understand how to overcome.

The Semantic Web Gets Social: Twine overtakes FriendFeed | Connected Science

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:30:30 -0700

Another milestone has been reached in the progress of the semantic web. The Friday issue of the Washington Post reports that the social information management site Twine has overtaken its rival FriendFeed in terms of unique monthly visitors. By some accounts Twine users outstrip FriendFeed adherents three to one. What makes this significant for users rather than just investors is how Twine doesn't just get bigger, it gets smarter the more it is used.

Enterprises, Struggling to Manage Your Data? Try The Semantic Web - ReadWriteEnterprise

Sat, 30 May 2009 01:47:39 -0700

"With the Semantic Web, you don't have to reinvent the wheel with your own ontology, because others, such as musicontology.com and DBpedia, have already created ontologies and made them available on the Web. As long as they're public and useful, you can use those. Where your context differs from theirs, you make yours specific, but where there's commonality, you use what they have created and leave it in place. Ideally, you make public the non-sensitive elements of your business-specific ontology that are consistent with your business model, so others can make use of them."

Web 3.0 or Not, Theres Something Different About 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 01:34:16 -0700

In a nutshell here are some of the new or noticeable trends that we're seeing on the 2009 Web:

* Open data
* Structured data -> smarter
* Filtering content
* Real-time
* Personalization
* Mobile (location-based, so you could say that's smarter use of data too)
* Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects)

Google, Semantic Web Changing the Content Game - InternetNews.com

Fri, 22 May 2009 01:22:55 -0700

When it comes to enhancing content, it's time for publishers to find their way into the Web of linked data. "Once you have tagged content it lets you harvest free content from the Web to enhance your publications," he said, citing the free, open content ranging from geographic to music databases already out there in the linked data world. "If you are not using it you are not taking advantage of an incredible opportunity to enhance content for free."

Ten Useful Wolfram|Alpha Searches - MMMeeja Blog

Tue, 19 May 2009 08:04:20 -0700

I bet the answer to your first query was the disappointing:

"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

That's because Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine - it's a knowledge inference engine and so many people struggle to get the best out of it. It deals with facts, maths and statistics and it deals with them very well.

Semantics Incorporated: Tying Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and Linked Data Together - Part 3/3: Structuring Chaos

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:07:37 -0700

I see how further data transformation of the type enabled by Linked Data can add extra value, by allowing the processing and linking of data across the web, but technically, that is (1) not adding "as much" meaning, in the sense that most of the meaning created comes from having the right triples and linkages in the first place (if the data is poorly structured or poorly linked, Linked Data will just turn garbage into more garbage), and then (2) most of the meaning added on top of that is derived from creating the right filters using SPARQL for instance, and SPARQL still needs to be programmed, which requires humans or other extraction algorithms, something that by any definition is not Linked Data. Linked Data just gives us better tools.

Imagining Message + Medium Together | The Golden Egg

Tue, 12 May 2009 03:12:46 -0700

We've changed the process. We believe in imagining message and medium together. Media is the new creative. The realities of the dynamic media age dictate that message distribution--timing, context, relevance--are as important as the creative execution itself. If marketing is no longer a one-way broadcasting activity, but a two-way conversation, then digital media is the enabler. In response to this shift, the media function has undergone rapid deconstruction.