ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) - Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked broadly about his work looking at metadata on the web, and how that led to the birth of SearchMonkey. This p ... Details

frank-feather.blogspot.com - The following are edited excerpts from an excellent interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, on May 26, 2008, with FAZ.net (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) — see FAZ.net link for full interview. ----------------- FAZ: Search marketing works very well. But where is the growth potential for Go ... Details

Cloudlands (www.johnbreslin.com) - I had a nice productive week in San Jose / San Francisco last week, where I attended the Semantic Technologies Conference 2008 (SemTech 2008) and some other nearby events. SemTech 2008 had a record attendance of over 1000 people, and it was great to meet up with old friends and new (some of whom I h ... Details

www.marcodecesaris.com - Internet and the surveillance society May 28th, 2008 An amazing article from guardian.co.uk about internet and the surveillance society. Shadbolt says the risks of data spillage are greater than we’re led to believe: ‘”If you keep within the law, and the government keeps within the law, an ... Details

www.powerhousemuseum.com - At MW08 there was the beginnings of a push amongst the technically oriented for the development of APIs for museum data, especially collections. Driven in part by discussions and early demonstrations of semantic web applications in museums, the conceptual work of Ross Parry, and the presence of Eric ... Details

eFoundations (efoundations.typepad.com) - Mikael Nilsson has circulated (to the DCMI Architecture forum mailing list) a short draft document titled Interoperability levels for Dublin Core metadata. The document is a result of both the discussions around the relationship of the DCMI Abstract Model and RDF which surfaced around a series of po ... Details

andrewapeterson.wordpress.com - This a comment I posted on the Nodalities blog (or I think I posted it.  The form submit resulted in a blank page)  Quote: It’s ironic, really, that the Semantic Web should struggle so much with semantics! The problem is that if we present a mixed, complicated, and difficult concept forward, ... Details

digicmb.blogspot.com - I don't know exactly since when they came available but many movies of the ELAG2008 conference are available on the web. You HAVE to use Internet Explorer (-:( otherwise you will see nothing... When you do manage to see the movie, you will also see the slides. They use a nice tool to manage these se ... Details

healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com - Blogger's Note: This lengthy post attempts to make up for time lost during last week's vacation, so if you're looking for a quick, easy read, come back tomorrow. If you've been waiting for a follow up to earlier posts dealing with consumer-centric healthcare, take a deep breath and read on. Better y ... Details

lostinknowledge.org - Visualization of the Semantic Web in: Semantic applications I’ve installed Semantic Radar, a Firefox extension which inspects web pages for links to Semantic Web metadata. Should Semantic Web metadata be discovered in the web page you’re browsing, some icons show in Firefox’s status bar: ... Details

Dani Iswara .Net (daniiswara.net) - As a free online tool, The SEO Analyzer is grateful. It helps to build better SEO web / blog designs. The total score is 100. Just enter your full URL then press the button to get the result. The score is based on these criterias: Semantic Structure Page Content Obsolete & Deprecated HTML Download ... Details

www.seriouslytech.com - Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked broadly about his work looking at metadata on the web, and how that led to the birth of SearchMonkey. This p ... Details

adamsacres.com - ZoomInfo is a semantic search engine that focuses on business and people searches.  It is truly interesting to type in your own name and see what pops up.  For the most part the information gathered comes from your own sites and profiles on other membership based sites. It is much more effective ... Details

alexiskold.wordpress.com - How will the Semantic Web make the jump to the mainstream? That was the topic of a panel at the SemTech 2008 Conference that is going on right now in San Jose. The panel was moderated by Carla Thomson from Guidewire Group and featured Josh Dilworth from Porter Novelli, Tom Tague, who heads [...] ... Details

alexiskold.wordpress.com - Posted on May 28, 2008. Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company’s new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked broadly about his work looking at metadata on the web, and how that led to the b ... Details

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diane-michel.com - Powerset has just released a new search for Wikipedia this month.  According to their site: “Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process ... Details

diane-michel.com - If you are interested in developing your own Semantic Web ontology or application, you may wish to check out TopBraid Composer.  Here you may download their data sheet which describes TopBraid and what it can do.  Even Nova Spivack, of Radar Networks apparently uses TopBraid, as he is quoted on th ... Details

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www.geospatialsemanticweb.com - The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission recently proposed a timetable requiring 500 of the largest public companies to begin filling their financial data using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). Why XBRL? Instead of publishing financial data in tables and charts, an XBRL representatio ... Details