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By: The services of the ’semantic web’ « Michael Haddon

The services of the ’semantic web’ « Michael Haddon — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:47:53 +0000

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Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:01:08 +0000

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By: Mike Darnell

Mike Darnell — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:32:11 +0000

Hi Michael,

Just wanted to say thanks for including a review of Headup in this article.

: )
Mike
“I tweet @headup”

By: Kristine

Kristine — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:14:38 +0000

Good list. However, I’m perpetually interested in everything new and shiny promising to be the future but I must admit I simply haven’t been able to get my head around Twine yet. It’s slow, there’s few people there, seems to be few from my other networks – and the few ‘new’ people I’ve met there have just set up a profile “to be there” while most of their time, like mine, is spent on other parts of the social web. The people is often what makes these places, so perhaps it will improve once more people are there – but I’d love to hear from anyone smitten with Twine how they benefit from it and use it (I know the theory of what the semantic web is meant to do of course, but just not found the magic, semantic or otherwise, with Twine yet).

By: links for 2009-03-26 « David Black

links for 2009-03-26 « David Black — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:05:55 +0000

[...] The services of the ’semantic web’ – Online Journalism Blog "I have loosely grouped some prominent sites into specialities – social networking, search and browsing – before briefly explaining their uses." (tags: internet socialmedia semanticweb webservices search) [...]

By: Frank Febbraro

Frank Febbraro — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:00:16 +0000

Glad to see someone starting to write about how the Smenatic Web will change journalism.

For those that are interested in OpenCalais and Drupal, we have created a Semantic Drupal Platform for online publishers called OpenPublish. You can learn more about it @ http://www.opensourceopenminds.com/openpublish It has OpenCalais integration built into it’s content types with a great theme and a lot of features like More Like This related content suggestions and Topic Hubs for semantic content aggregation to get your site up and running in no time.

By: Gabriel Weinberg

Gabriel Weinberg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:56:37 +0000

Also check out our new search engine, Duck Duck Go: http://duckduckgo.com/

I’d love to get your feedback on it. It has semantic properties like ambiguous keyword detection, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple

Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO

By: Morning Edition - Mar 25, 2009 « Sazbean

Morning Edition - Mar 25, 2009 « Sazbean — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:16:20 +0000

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By: Greg Collette

Greg Collette — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:50:58 +0000

Oops, I forgot my question!

gStepOne taps into the world’s body of “doing” knowledge – the smartest ways to produce the best outcomes, from the billions of web pages on the net to find an appropriate Advise Me.

However, we only use a (structured) Google search. There are many other specifically built “How to” sites that we should search, including:: About.com http–www.businessballs.com- http://ask.com/ eHow How To Do Just About Everything! Helium – Where Knowledge Rules how.com HubPages knol a unit of knowledge Mahalo – How To Categories Main Page – Wikipedia Oondi Overview (Home) Powerset wikiHow Yahoo! Answers – Home Answer Search | SnappyFingers OneRiot.com – About Us Scribd Fluther: Tap the Collective Answer Universe etc. etc.

We need smarten up our search so the gStepOne “knows” that these sites (and others like them) exist, and that goes to them as part of the search.

Any suggestions about how we can do this using semantic web techniques?

By: Greg Collette

Greg Collette — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:55:18 +0000

Great post! The semantic web picture is coming into focus. As you say, it is a big picture. Another element is Smart wizards, assembled from the net on-the-fly.

Our intelligent internet project grew from our Knowledge Management background. Our objective has been to move KM up a few notches, from the passive “read about it” to the interactive “do it” with wizards assembled from the net on-the-fly.

The technology is called gStepOne, which taps into the world’s body of “doing” knowledge – the smartest ways to produce the best outcomes, from the billions of web pages on the net.
Users draw a map of the steps in a task by dragging and dropping shapes onto a page, then linking and naming the steps. gStepOne Googles the web for supporting “How to” information, training, pictures, videos, maps, blogs, etc. for each step and generates the wizard.

The wizard is then available to guide and support others when they do the task.

Anyone can create a wizard (no programming skills needed) to help deliver a service, sell a house, hire staff, conduct an event, adopt a child, take out insurance, apply for a grant – any task where people need an Assistant to help them do things like an expert, without the expert being there.

Check it out at http://www.gstepone.com.