INTERVIEW : The Linked Open Data infrastructure is in a rapid process of maturing - the recent release of UMBEL�s webservice and DBpedia's incorporation of UMBEL classes are yet another confirmation of this exciting process. Andreas Blumauer spoke with two of the key players in the evolution of the Web of Data: DBpedia co-initiator, Triplify main developer and head of the AKSW research group S�ren Auer, and UMBEL editor and Zitgist CEO Mike Bergman.

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In September 2008, the Austrian research project 'DYONIPOS Use case BMF' won in the category Science Award � Most Innovative E-Government Application which was part of the 8th e-Government competition under the patronage of the German Ministry of Internal Affairs. The use case was carried out at the Austrian Ministry of Finance (BMF) in collaboration with Know-Center Graz and m2n - consulting and development. It focused on the implementation of an intelligent knowledge management system that reduces the amount of effort needed for search and analysis within administrations. The competition within the Science Award was open to federal, state and local administration in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Tassilo Pellegrini, Head of Transfer & Media at SWC, spoke with Michael Granitzer (Know-Center), Doris Ipsmiller (m2n) and Josef Makolm (BMF), who were involved in all stages of the use case.

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Bo Hu is a researcher with a focus on applications of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies in e-learning and e-healthcare. In this interview, he talks about the potential of Semantic Web and intelligent agent technologies in medicine and life sciences, a domain that he describes as uncompared "in terms of the amount of data to be processed, the diversity of data formats, and the time-critical and safety-critical requirements." The interview was led by Tassilo Pellegrini.

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INTERVIEW: Matthias Samwald and Thomas Schandl talk about their vision and contributions towards a future on the Semantic Web. With backgrounds in neuroscience and business informatics respectively, they both joined the Semantic Web Company in 2008 as consultants, semantic web developers and experts. The interview was led by Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren.

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Die Konvergenz von Social Software, Web 2.0 und Semantic Web: Die Gr�nder der Semantic Web Company legen ein weiteres Sachbuch vor: "Ein Update zur aktuellen Debatte �ber die Entwicklung und Perspektiven des Internets im Allgemeinen und des World Wide Web im Speziellen", so die beiden Herausgeber Andreas Blumauer und Tassilo Pellegrini.

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Online Social Networking ist beliebter denn je - doch auch die Gefahren d�rfen nicht untersch�tzt werden. Prof. Dr. Michael Koch sprach mit Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren und Tassilo Pellegrini �ber seine Erfahrungen sowie Chancen und Probleme sozialer Netzwerkdienste. Koch ist Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Kooperationssysteme an der Universit�t der Bundeswehr M�nchen.

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WOD-PD keynote speaker Danny Ayers talks about the odds that might prevent the Web from becoming what it should be. As a Semantic Web evangelist and community manager for the Talis Platform, he sees people as a the Web�s key component � but is not surprised that the evangelists themselves often have outdated FOAF-profiles.

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Bei den Medientagen in Wien diskutierten Top-Medienmacher die Frage, wie Verlage die Herausforderung des Web 3.0 meistern werden. Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren berichtet.

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Semantische Wikis beim Multimedia-Staatpreis: Die vom KDZ - Zentrum f�r Verwaltungsforschung initiierte Plattform Verwaltungskooperation.at erhielt eine Juryauszeichnung in der Kategorie eGovernment und �ffentliche Dienste. Bernhard Krabina, KDZ: "Beispiele f�r den Einsatz von Wikis in der �ffentlichen Verwaltung gibt es bereits einige. Wir hoffen nun, dass sich auch die Themen Semantisches Web und Semantische Wikis im Wissensmanagement im Bereich E-Government durchsetzen k�nnen."

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Unsere offenen Seminare vermitteln Grundlagen und Praxiswissen �ber Methoden, Technologien und Standards der n�chsten Web-Generation. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage wie die Synergie aus Social Web, Semantic Web und Text Mining f�r Anwendungen im Unternehmensumfeld wie Suchmaschinen, Expertensuche, Wissensmanagement, Recommender-System, E-Business eingesetzt und genutzt werden kann.

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Richard Cyganiak, a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway, talks about the benefits of semantic web indices, data dictionaries and the similarities between the Linked Data initiative and the Semantic Web's orginal impetus. The interview was led by Andreas Blumauer.

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Am 9./10. Oktober findet das 2. LEARNTEC Forum in Wien statt. Andreas Blumauer erkl�rt, wie kollaborative und semantische Technologien das Lernen im Web 2.0 weiter verbessern. Dieser Beitrag ist eine Vorschau auf seinen Vortrag �Lernen im Social Semantic Web� im Rahmen des LEARNTEC Forum Austria.

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Die f�hrende internationale Konferenz f�r Wissensmanagement, Wissenstechnologien und Semantische Technologien tagte vom 3. bis 5. September 2008 in Graz.

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Yves Raimond, a keynote speaker at the Web of Data Practitioners Days, talks about new ways of music retrieval within the web of music-related data. Yves is a researcher at Queen Mary University of London, with a focus on metadata for musical resources. The Web of Data Practitioners Days aim to show how semantic technologies may improve and enhance existing Web-based software systems and how the Web of Data will provide a new paradigm of managing globally interlinked information. The event is going to take place in Vienna, 22-23 October 2008.

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Ryan Kennedy and Jiri Kopsa from zembly talk about their new 'Wiki for Code' where users can share, clone and modify widgets and applications for Facebook, Meebo, iPhone and more. Does the world need more Facebook apps that will never reach a critical mass? Read their answers in the interview .

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Corinna Bath, a researcher and lecturer, is concerned with gender studies in computer science and working on a thesis �Towards a De-Gendered Design of Information Technologies�. Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren talked with her about distinctions, namely "Der kleine Unterschied" in terms of gender stereotypes and the Semantic Web.

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MONATSTHEMA: Geht es in unserem Umfeld, beruflich wie pers�nlich, nicht immer um Beziehungen? Wer kennt wen, wer wei� was, was ist �hnlich wie? Dabei k�nnte alles oft viel einfacher sein, wenn die Zusammenh�nge offensichtlicher w�ren. Eine L�sung k�nnte Relationship Discovery hei�en. Entdecken wir das Wesen der Beziehungskiste neu

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EXCLUSIVE: UMBEL, a new vocabulary for the Semantic Web released in July 2008 by Zitgist and parters, servse as a coherent reference structure of subject concept classes for a more powerful Semantic Web.

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TRIPLE-I, a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-SEMANTICS and I-MEDIA, explores current trends like Enterprise 2.0, SOA, and Web Services. 550 participants from more than 30 nations are expected in Graz in September.

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Recent changes in the SCOT (Social Semantic Cloud Of Tags) ontology model include several new properties to describe tagging activities and changes in property names.

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INTERVIEW: Hermann Maurer, Experte f�r Wissensmanagement und Science-Fiction-Autor, sprach mit dem Magazin personal manager �ber zuk�nftige Wissens- und Lernszenarien im Netzzeitalter.

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INTERVIEW: Martin Hochmeister aims to create a new discipline of �human-software architecture� within the next generation web. The expert talks about future developments in an interview led by Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren.

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Sind die Massen weise? Ist der Einzelne d�mmer als die Community? Erst die Vielfalt der Sichtweisen verleiht dem Internet Bedeutung. Das Weben am semantischen Web ist nicht nur ein Mitweben am sozialen Gewebe, sondern, wenn man die Aufgabe ernst nimmt, auch angewandtes Vernetzen einer ethischen Verantwortung.

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Three members of the KiWi-project team, including SWC's Matthias Samwald on the programme committee, participated in the Semantic Wiki workshop that took place at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) on June 2, 2008.

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"Not another social network!" - Patrick Chanezon explained the rules of social objects and the benefits of OpenSocial at the Google I/O developer gathering which took place in San Francisco in May 2008.

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INTERVIEW: Andreas Krawczyk, Head of Programming bei Yahoo Deutschland, sprach mit Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren �ber die Pl�ne im Bereich semantischer Suchtechnologien. �ber Langeweile hat der Internet-Konzern derzeit nicht zu klagen: Erzwungene Microsoft-�bernahme ja oder nein, Druck der eigenen Aktion�re... der Kampf scheint noch nicht ausgestanden. Der lukrative Werbemarkt im Internet ist heftig umk�mpft. Im Kampfget�mmel ist Business As Usual noch wichtiger als sonst.

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MONATSTHEMA: Das Ziel der Linking Open Data-Bewegung ist die Vernetzung von offenen, frei zug�nglichen Daten im Web - Open Data. Neue Trends und Mashups entstehen, die Branche ist in Bewegung.

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The Semantic Web Company is a partner of this year's conference in June in New York. Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen, Ian Davis, Anant Jhingran and Atanas Kiryakov will be among the Keynote speakers.

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INTERVIEW: Tom Heath from Talis and an active member of the Linked Data Community discusses the growth and future of the Web of Data with SWC's Andreas Blumauer.

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LEHRGANG: Die Semantic Web Company bietet nicht nur L�sungen f�r konkrete Projekte: Hier werden auch kompetente Experten ausgebildet, f�r eine Zukunft mit dem Social Semantic Web.

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INTERVIEW: Ken North, member of the LinkedData Planet conference faculty, believes EU privacy laws can be thought leading on ethical issues related to publishing open data.

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Schluss mit dem IT-Jargon: Das SWC-Management Briefing schafft Klarheit �ber Semantisches Web, Semantische Technologien und die f�r Entscheidungstr�ger wichtigen Aspekte.

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INTERVIEW: In order to get the PR industry on the Semantic Web bandwagon, says Markus Pirchner, one needs to squeeze the fuzziness of relationships into an ontology. Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren talked to PR expert Markus Pirchner about online relations, PR 2.0 and the future developments in this market. Conclusion: The topic has appeared on the PR-radar, but still needs support.

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Eine neue Version von Triplify, dem von AKSW entwickelten Webanwendungsplugin, das strukturierte Daten aus relationalen Datenbanken erschlie�t, wurde Anfang April 2008 ver�ffentlicht. Triplify 0.3 verf�gt �ber verbesserte PHP4 Kompatibilit�t und erlaubt, RDF mit Metadaten zu erweitern.

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Wer suchet, der findet - doch ohne Semantik wird die n�chste Suchmaschinengeneration nicht auskommen.

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Werner Buhre is Communications Manager at Austria�s largest Telco. He is well renowned as one of the Web 2.0 forethinkers in his community. Andreas Blumauer talked with him about the impact of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web on large companies like Telekom Austria.

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Herbert Hrachovec unterrichtet nicht nur am Wiener Institut f�r Philosophie an der Fakult�t f�r Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft; der stellvertretende Institutsvorstand ist auch einer der Pioniere im Bereich der Digitalisierung. Zu seinen Arbeitsgebieten z�hlt die Philosophie der Neuen Medien. Einen E-Mail-Diskurs rund um Semantik, das Web und die Rolle der Philosophie in der Technologie f�hrte mit ihm Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren.

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From April 2 - 4, 2008 the Topic Maps 2008 conference will take place in Oslo, Norway taking a look at current developments and future prospects. Tassilo Pellegrini (SWC) talked to Graham Moore, Topic Maps expert at Networked Planet, about the semantic turn in IT, the power of context and the complementary nature between Topic Maps and the Semantic Web.

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Ziel der strategischen Partnerschaft der beiden Unternehmen ist die Umsetzung neuester Wissens- und semantischer Technologien in der Wirtschaft.

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The latest release by TopQuadrant allows non-programmers to create semantic web applications. Now end users can integrate data sources and create information mash-ups themselves.

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Arno Scharl heads the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. Andreas Blumauer (SWC) talked to him about the Geospatial Web, the US Election Monitor and semantic mashups.

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From June 17 - 18, 2008 international experts will gather at the Linked Data Planet conference in New York to discuss latest trends and future prospects in the commercialization of the semantic web. Tassilo Pellegrini talked to conference chair Bob DuCharme about the status quo of Semantic Web in the US and the many facettes of one of the most promising developments for the next generation internet.

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From September 3 - 5, 2008 TRIPLE-I 2008 will take place in Graz. TRIPLE-I is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS covering the topics Knowledge Management, New Media Technologies and Semantic Systems. The last years conference attracted 550 participants from 33 countries.

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W3C announced today the publication of SPARQL, the key standard for opening up data on the Semantic Web. With SPARQL query technology, pronounced "sparkle," people can focus on what they want to know rather than on the database technology or data format used behind the scenes to store the data. Because SPARQL queries express high-level goals, it is easier to extend them to unanticipated data sources, or even to port them to new applications.

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Despite of impressive efforts and innovativeness of the open source community little attention has so far been paid to alternative financing models of software development. CoFundOs - a project from the University of Leipzig - addresses this problem. Tassilo Pellegrini (SWC) talked to project leader S�ren Auer about the status quo and future prospects of community-funded open source software and its spiritual relation to a Social Semantic Web.

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On the occasion of Matthias Samwald�s new engagement for the Semantic Web Company Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren (SWC) talked with the biomedical research expert about some important key aspects. The easiest way to create revenue from Semantic Web technologies could lie in creating in-house solutions for corporate intranets. Also the potential for targeted advertising is huge.

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Welche Rolle spielt Tagging in der Wissenorganisation? In Teil 2 des Interviews spricht Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren (SWC) mit Stefanie Panke �ber Perspektiven und Potenziale des �freien Verschlagwortens� und die Frage, inwieweit Tagging informelles Lernen unterst�tzen kann.

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Anl�sslich der ISWC-Konferenz 2007 in S�dkorea, die Mitte November stattfand, sprach Marion Fugl�wicz-Bren (SWC) mit dem wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter des Joanneum Research, DI Michael Hausenblas, �ber semantische Technologien im Zusammenhang mit dem Weltkulturerbe.

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Semantische Systeme halten in der Medizininformatik Einzug. Dies ist eines der Themen bei der diesj�hrigen Konferenz "USAB 2007 - Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care" am 22. November 2007 in Graz. Organisator Andreas Holzinger stand Tassilo Pellegrini Rede und Antwort zum Wechselspiel zw. der n�chsten Generation des medizinischen Informationsmanagements und dem ethischen Umgang mit Patientendaten.

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In 8 Minuten zum Semantic Web. Tim Berners Lee erkl�rt die Grundlagen und die m�glichen Auswirkungen des Semantic Web so klar wie nie zuvor.

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Die offenen, im Paket und einzeln buchbaren Seminare der Semantic Web Company vermitteln Grundlagen und Praxiswissen �ber Methoden, Technologien und Standards der n�chsten Web-Generation.

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Will the Semantic Web ever hit the market? What is missing to make it a reality? More than 500 partcipants contributed to our current survey, the Web Awareness Barometer 2008.

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Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) deals with the application of Semantic Web technologies within enterprise settings. Prof. Adrian Paschke, head of the CSW Working Group at the Free University of Berlin, gives a detailed overview of this emerging application area, addresses challenges and opportunities and gives an insight into the economic principles of the corporate use of semantic web technologies. CSW will also be a major topic at this year's I-Semantics Conference from Sept. 2 - 4, 2009 in Graz/Austria and the Semantic Web Meetup in Berlin on March 20, 2009.

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Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) talked with Brian Donnelly about a new system on the market called "Semantic Discovery System"�, which helps to do sophisticated queries across existing datasets without any knowledge about SemWeb technologies. In this talk Brian also discusses why complex scripts or triple stores should not be exposed to the end-users anymore.

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The Open Source Initiative, SMILA "SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture", was mutually launched at the end of 2007 by empolis, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and brox IT Solutions GmbH to create a standardized infrastructure for information management. The project is embedded into the work of the eclipse community, which consists of more than 180 companies and research institutions, which all have the common objective of developing open and standardized platforms. Since June 2008, SMILA attained the status of an official eclipse project and is co-funded through the THESEUS project by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

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In regelm��igen Abst�nden wird von neuer Konkurrenz f�r Google in den Medien berichtet. Vor kurzem sorgte eine Suchmaschine des britischen Mathematikers Stephen Wolfram, die im Mai 2009 ver�ffentlicht wird, wieder einmal f�r wilde Spekulationen. Was ist von Question Answering Systemen zu erwarten?

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So far little awareness exists about the commercial opportunities of linked data. Andreas Blumauer (SWC) talked to Chris Bizer, mastermind behind the DB-Pedia project and advocate of the linking open data philosophy, about the emerging market for deep web applications, its value for corporate purposes, and the need for information accountability and privacy awareness.

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A recent online survey on experiences with and expectations towards Social Software and the Semantic Web, indicates that Semantic Web technologies are maturing and transcending into the corporate domain. Differing notions between application-oriented and research-oriented participants are much smaller than expected. The report and the data set are available for free!

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Searching for a killer application for the Semantic Web a young research team from FU Berlin developed loomp, a multifacetted annotation tool for various information types, workflows and media channels. Tassilo Pellegrini (SWC) talked to project leader Markus Luczak-R�sch about motives behind and prospects for a Corporate Semantic Web leveraged by loomp.

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Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler

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H. Peter Alesso, Craig F. Smith

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Der Suchgigant Google hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass mit der Indizierung von RDFa Markups nun offiziell das Semantic Web "unterst�tzt" wird. Damit ergeben sich neue Chancen f�r die Suchmaschinenoptimierung (SEO).

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Linked Data is evolving fast. A huge amount of RDF data is available and ready for exciting new applications. Unfortunately, the bottleneck is still the availability of Semantic Web user front-ends which demonstrate the power of linked data. To a certain degree BBC Music beta is the first commercial platform which makes heavy use of linked data. With Parallax David Huynh has shown that one of the most interesting semantic web applications can be built around browse and search applications which offer tools for doing complex search queries. Andreas Blumauer from Semantic Web Company (SWC) talked with David Huynh, �Interaction Scientist� at Metaweb, the company which developed Freebase, an �open, shared database of the world�s knowledge�.

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The 2nd Berlin Semantic Web Meetup will be opened with an impulse keynote by Duane Nickull from Adobe Systems.

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Eight out of ten people prefer Google but the power of the website is under threat from rival search engines and firms that manipulate its results In the space of a single decade, internet search has changed the way we look at the world beyond recognition. Google has become our binoculars and our window on to the net. With that blinking cursor on our internet search box only a button away and ever ready to unleash a geyser of...

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Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets. Belgrade, Edmonton, Galway, London, New York, and San Francisco (PRWEB)...

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Some background on cloud computing and a comparison of cloud providers – Part 1 In the mid-nineties, new directions in managerial accounting made cost center bookkeeping popular in large organizations. In this model, departments within an organization traded almost like a miniature economy, with some departments earning a net gain for the company and some departments delivering a net loss. Cost and Profit Centers The profit centers - as those who earned money are...

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It's been nearly 4 years since news aggregation site Techmeme (or tech.memeorandum, as it was called back then) launched to the world. Since then it's grown to be the leading aggregator of tech news in the blogosphere. There have been no shortage of pretenders to the throne over the years, particularly from startups hoping to crack the elusive "personalization" nut. What could be...

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Here’s an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing that enables linked information, and what this means for you is the ability to find information quickly instead of searching to find individual suggestions from search...

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Recent accounting scandals have heightened the need for transparency in reporting of financial data. Companies are now required to submit regular reports and disclosures conforming to accepted accounting principles like International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). Financial regulators around the world have also mandated that these reports be tagged using the eXtensible Business Reporting...

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If you've ever used tagging to bookmark or organize content, you know that there can be many different tags associated with a variety of terms and topics. Mustang could be a tag for a car or a horse. Columbus is a city but also a historical figure. Los Angeles could be tagged as la or los_angeles. Now, Yahoo!, Zemanta, AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase and Zigtag have collaborated to develop a semantic tagging format in the hopes of...

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As part of a long-term study for the European Commission, Ovum has conducted in-depth interviews with IT managers to determine the drivers for and barriers to adopting semantic software within the enterprise. While there is some resistance to the term 'semantic', a more substantial barrier brings us right back to basics: finding employees who know the business. Vendors and implementers of...

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Google is showcasing an alpha version of a cloud-based data management system designed to make it easy for users to integrate data from tables in disparate databases. Google is calling the technology 'Fusion Tables.'

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What happens when you get a bunch of rich old pricks gathering together for yet another conference and the talk turns to how poor they are and how it’s the Internet’s fault? Well you get people like Barry Diller (who looks surprising like a older version of Steve Ballmer) pontification about how the web will return to its glory days of when you paid for stuff – and all within five years. Yes folks by the time five years rolls by we will be forking over cash for all that stuff...

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Leader in Product Data Mastering Chosen by Leading Healthcare Cost-Management Company Westminster, Colo. (PRWEB) June 16, 2009 -- Silver Creek Systems�, the pioneer and leader in automated Data Mastering, including product data quality, integration and governance announced today that their DataLens™ System was selected by Broadlane�, a leading cost-management company for healthcare providers, to lend further improvement to the automated process of...

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Expert System, leading provider of semantic software that searches, discovers, classifies and interprets unstructured text information, today announces it has developed a new semantic search Web site for Twitter content. Using Expert System's COGITO� engine...

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SAN JOSE, CA -- 06/16/09 -- SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2009 -- TopQuadrant(TM), the global leader in Semantic Web application development technology, today announced

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Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of practical semantic solutions, introduced its new Anzo platform and tools designed to make semantic technology practical and accessible for a broad range of users across all industries. Easy-to-use browser-based tools and a plug-in that allows semantic linking of spreadsheets from within Microsoft Excel� itself, make the Anzo suite the first enterprise-class semantic technology solution designed for non-technical...

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Officials at the Semantic Technology Conference talked up the commercialization of semantic concepts, saying they will help usher in Web 3.0 The Semantic Web, the long-ballyhooed concept to make it easier to find pertinent information and link varying types of data on the Web, is finally closing in on critical mass, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) officials contended Tuesday at a technical conference. The idea of a Semantic Web has been bantered about for what seems like a decade now...

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Glue, a browser-based social network that appears on sites such as Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, and Citysearch, today announced their public API for third-party developers. Glue joins a family of available semantic APIs with a mix of unique semantic and social API features. The API is currently demoed in three apps: Glue Stream,

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A new semantic web technology platform that enables data collaboration via the Web. Freemix is a free social networking site for wrapping, exposing and sharing data. This invitational beta allows you to rapidly upload data, visualize and share it on the Web, providing quantum leaps in speed, efficiencies and cost reduction in comparison to traditional data management strategies. Zepheira™, a leading global provider of semantic web technology services for accelerating the integration...

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Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. Yahoo! says that Common Tag makes “web content more discoverable” and enables the community to “create more useful applications for aggregating, searching, and browsing the web.” Their blog post mentions that they want to...

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Epik could provide compelling domain monetization strategy — and may spur more direct navigation. When Rob Monster announced he was closing his venture capital shop, he wrote that he was working on a new company that could change domaining: We are building a Web 3.0 platform that will be...

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Denodo's Suresh Chandrasekaran Demonstrates How Combining Enterprise and Web Data Results in Strategic Business Gains Suresh Chandrasekaran, Senior VP, North America at Denodo Technologies, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the BeyeNETWORK (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Chandrasekaran explains how Denodo helps companies utilize enterprise data mashups and semantic Web technologies to merge internal and...

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Thomson Reuters’ OpenCalais,

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A new analysis of data from del.ici.ous shows that, while the number of tags grows roughly in proportion to the growth of content, users can unwittingly provide bridges between networks of seemingly unrelated concepts. Tagging content on the Internet is generally viewed as a convenience, a useful way to organize and sort things that everyone likes: music videos, painful mistakes, dangerous stunts, and so on. But some researchers in Europe have discovered that, when analyzed in the right way...

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Wednesday’s opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire’s Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK’s True Knowledge, and Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo. Carla asks each panellist to describe the...

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If you examine the undercurrents of discussion, you'll notice an evolutionary change in how brands are approaching their digital media strategy. We hear lots of talk concerning the shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, but a similar shift is taking place in the sub-component of the Web: media strategy. There is a very clean line being drawn that designates the shift from 1.0, to 2.0 and into the 3.0 stage of media strategy, which revolves around the differences between...

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--If those chasing Google have anything to say about it, search on the Internet is going to become more about a conversation than an exchange of keywords. Panelists from the four major search engines--Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com--joined Web search start-ups TrueKnowledge and Hakia at the W3C's Semantic Technology Conference to discuss the rise of semantic technology as the engine behind the still nascent Internet search...

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The internet search engine Ask Jeeves has today unveiled its proprietary database of 300 million question-and-answer pairs for consumers in the United Kingdom and United States. Using core search technology launched in October 2008, Ask Jeeves achieved this industry milestone of 300 million high-quality Q&A pairs by crawling and indexing questions and answers from numerous and diversified sources across the web. The search engine...

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Vocabularies within specific domains, from agriculture to military and homeland security Quite a mouthful, the title of this post. However, this language is becoming more and more critical to the objective of cross-domain information-sharing, and is becoming more and more easy to actually use (by the public!) in building information search, discovery, fusion and correlation/analytical applications. A while ago, I was introduced to the semantic wiki technologies and communities of...

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Collaboration Around the OpenAmplify Web Service Will Support the Creation of Real-World Applications, Academic Research and Blue-Sky Innovation OpenAmplify (www.OpenAmplify.com), a Semantic Web platform, today opened an online community (http://community.OpenAmplify.com) to drive innovation, collaboration and development for the Semantic Web. As the only generally available Web service that can identify...

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Program Would Wrestle Disparate Information Into Usable Intelligence The U.S. military excels at collecting intelligence information. Data streams in from satellites and airborne sensors, from ground-based signals interceptors, from troops and intelligence agents. What the military's not so good at yet is analyzing it all. There are so many sensors collecting so much data that "they are overwhelming our ability to process" it, said Tod Hagan, a software scientist who is...

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A few years ago, we spoke of the "AdSense Economy." It was so simple. Create a website, slap on an AdSense widget, and voila: "Insta-biz." Wow! Who knew business could be so simple? AdSense was proof of Google's genius, having grown into a multi-billion dollar business in only a few years after its launch in 2003. Google's search business continues to grow...

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In the new Bing-enabled world, search is hotter than ever. Your entire Search Insider lineup has been trading quips and forecasts about the future of search. Aaron Goldman thinks Hunch may be the answer to my call for an iPhone of search. Today, I want to talk about why Wolfram|Alpha is very, very important to watch. It's not an iPhone, but it is changing the rules of...

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We're a long way from Ask Jeeves but really, really far from the computer assistant in Iron Man I just spent two days at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. About 1,200 people attended over the course of the event, up from some 300 about five years ago, when it first launched. What became pretty clear was that semantic technology has a...

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