by Ron Miller

Video Looks At The Viability of the Semantic Web

This is a fabulous little documentary by Kate Ray. She manages to get in touch with some of the biggest names in technology including Web inventor Tim Berniers Lee and ask them about the viability of a future semantic web. This is great stuff and well worth the 14 odd minutes of your time. 

 

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

OpenCalais Brings Semantic Metatagging to Oracle Databases

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OpenCalais, a semantic web service from Thomson-Reuters, has announced a deal to integrate OpenCalais into the Oracle Database 11g Release 2, giving Oracle customers programmatic access to the OpenCalais metatagging service.

Read the full story at Semanticweb.com.

Wolfram|Alpha Teams with Xignite

I wrote a new article for semanticweb.com today on the new partnership between Wolfram|Alpha and financial data services provider Xignite to give Wolfram|Alpha users access to real-time financial data. The implications are huge because it means instead of using a database of information populated by Wolfram|Alpha, they now have access to other types of data, and Wolfram|Alpha suggest this is just the beginning.

Read more at Semanticweb.com.

Tim Berners-Lee's Eloquent Ted Speech on Linked Data

If you are wondering about the future of the World Wide Web, look no further than this speech from the TED conference earlier this year, by the esteemed creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. He is positively effusive about where he envisions the web going from here, and he gives a nice background of where we've come from to give some context to his talk. We have linked documents, but now Berners-Lee argues, we need linked data.

This is a fascinating talk and what jumped out at me was how excited he was about all of this. Rather than being jaded after after 20 years in the field, he's genuinely pumped to take this to the next level. If you have even a hint of geek in you, this is must-see video.

Are Semantics Helping Bing Make Better Decisons?

There were high hopes when Microsoft purchased Powerset last summer, but how much of its semantic elements made it into Bing?

Found out at Semanticweb.com.

Google Wave is Impressive, but is it Semantic Technology?

Google Wave is impressive, so much so, some have suggested it's semantic web technology, but experts say out of the box, it's not.

Read why on Semanticweb.com.

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NYT Looks to the Semantic Web (video)

I came across this video today while doing research for my new gig writing for Semanticweb.com. The plan is for me to write 4 or 5 posts a month for starters (or one post a week). This video looks at how the NYT plans to use  advanced technologies including the semantic web. Fascinating stuff: