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Parse.ly Brings A Dash of Semantics To Online Publishers

Online publishers and other content providers have a new analytics tool to help them understand what their readers care about and use that information to better connect them to their sites’ relevant and compelling content.

http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/bing-vs-google-the-quiet-semantic-war/

On Wednesday night I had dinner at a burger joint with four old friends; two work in the intelligence community today on top-secret programs, and two others are technologists in the private sector who have done IC work for years.

Bing vs Google, the quiet semantic war « Shepherd’s Pi

Top 10 Reasons Not To Do a Semantic Web Project

The Semantic Web is a great vision that began almost ten years ago, but at this point, the failures outnumber the successes by a very large margin.

http://www.devx.com/semantic/Article/44832

Controversial. Has grains of truth, which i admittedly share by experience. by trappi Jul 23

7 Signs That Semantic Web Is Crossing The Chasm To The Mainstream - Semantic Web

http://semanticweb.com/7-signs-that-semantic-web-is-crossing-the-chasm-to-the-mainstream_b692

This is the half-yearly report card on the Semantic Web. How are we doing in 2010? The breakthrough to the mainstream was predicted by Gartner to be in 2008.

Peek Into Semantic Labs: IBM Research & Healthcare Ontologies - Semantic Web

We like to cover the innovation that is moving mainstream, such as adoption of RDF by Drupal and Facebook. But we also like to seek out stories from the other end of the innovation pipe, to peek into the research labs.

http://semanticweb.com/peek-into-semantic-labs-ibm-research-healthcare-ontologies_b614

I am a believer in the rise of the web of data.

http://www.justinleavesley.com/journal/2006/12/8/the-puzzle-of-semantic-web-adoption.html

Thoughts on software, innovation and people - Journal - The puzzle of semantic web adoption

Quote from this post: We talk about the semantic web in terms of a web as database. But where is the database engine? Google is the free text engine for the web of documents. Where is the equivalent for the semantic web? So the semantic web appears to have little day 0 utility over a specific approach, it is not its own killer application and it lacks the ability to query the semantic web information space itself. This may appear a provocative conclusion, I dont know. But is it correct? If it is then who is doing what about it? by trappi Jul 19

Earlier this week we wrote about the classic approach to the semantic web and the difficulties with that approach. While the original vision of the layer on top of the current web, which annotates information in a way that is "understandable" by computers, is compelling; there are technical, scientific and business issues that have been difficult to address. One of the technical difficulties that we outlined was the bottom-up nature of the classic semantic web approach. Specifically, each web site needs to annotate information in RDF, OWL, etc. in order for computers to be able to "understand" it. As things stand today, there is little reason for web site owners to do that.

Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web

http://readwrite.com/2007/09/20/the_top-down_semantic_web

Quote from the post: The essence of a top-down semantic web service is simple - leverage existing web information, apply specific, vertical semantic knowledge and then redeliver the results via a consumer-centric application. by trappi Jul 19

Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App?

The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity . We have written about this trend extensively, with our two most notable posts being an analysis of the challenges of the classic bottom-up approach and the promise of the new top-down one. Regardless of how the Semantic Web will come about, for it to flourish it needs to hit the mainstream. There is no way that consumers will appreciate the elegance and mathematical soundness of RDF and OWL.