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The Web's three leading search companies are announcing today a new collaboration called Schema.org , where more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more will allow search engines to better understand and present what they find on the pages that show up in search results. Yahoo announced the project first today on its Yahoo Search Blog and said it was reminiscent of all three search companies collaborating to create the sitemap concept.
Today at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google’s Marissa Mayer .
Rather than be presented with a list of links and text, Qwiki pulls in content from sites like Wikipedia , YouTube , Google and Fotopedia , presenting users with images, videos and narrated text. Each entry is also accompanied by related search items. After the entry has been displayed, you can share it via Facebook, Email, or Twitter, generate an embed code for your blog, as well as look up additional information on other sites from which the information has been gathered.
There are many reasons to love delicious and hope that it survives its current rocky patch, but as a programmer there's one thing I've found it essential for.
After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming.
In the same way that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman, Facebook's OpenGraph Protocol is neither open nor a protocol. It is, however, an extremely straightforward and applicable standard for document metadata.
As Network World reported this week, iPhone apps that could save your life have come to an App Store near you. "A growing number of developers are tapping into a treasure trove of U.S. government healthcare data and coming up with innovative iPhone apps that help consumers make better medical decisions," wrote Carolyn Duffy Marsan. She was reporting on a trend that started at the National Institute of Medicine in May when the U.S.
Wireless carriers, which have been sitting on a largely untouched goldmine of user data , may be poised to start tapping into their mother lode, according to Chris Dixon, CEO and co-founder of recommendation and personalization site Hunch .
October 28, 2010