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| coComment mines the social web |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Cocomment, Comments, Semantic Web, Semanticweb, Social Media, Social Web, Socialmedia, Socialweb |
| Filed under: Internet, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), General Electric (GE), Interviews, Next big thing, Small businessThe social web - which allows everybody to participate - got a boost this week. That is, MSNBC.com, a joint venture between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and General Electric (NYSE: GE), agreed to buy Newsvine, a news site that |
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| Semantic Web Mashups and Freebase |
| Published: March 20, 2008, 2:18 am |
| Tags: Bestmashups, Semanticweb |
| Want to see who influenced who in history? From Duchamp, to Freud, to Voltaire, to Einstein and others, yesterday’s Mashup of the Day, Free Influencer, is one semantic web style way to see these connections. While the database of people appears to be just a small starter set at this point, the concept is promising. This mashup is one of |
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| Semantic Search the US Library of Congress |
| Published: April 29, 2008, 1:29 am |
| Tags: Gov, Semanticweb |
| As the national library of the United States, the Library of Congress has created vast amounts of metadata to describe books and other documents in its collection. Among this metadata is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), a “controlled vocabulary” for classifying documents by subject. In order words, experts at the |
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| Reuters Shines Spotlight on the Information You Need |
| Published: May 29, 2008, 3:29 am |
| Tags: Apis, Money, News, Semanticweb |
| Reuters Labs has announced the release of their new Spotlight API. Spotlight is a non-commercial platform designed to “allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes.” Reuters Labs is the R&D branch of Thomson Reuters, the largest information services company in the world. The objective |
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