Web 3.0 is Hard, Slow Work

Virtual Barn-Raising Underway–How to feel as if you’re part of something big
The next generation web, whatever catchphrase will finally be attached to it, is hardly a magical divination. There is currently very tedious work going on, especially in deeper recesses where labels like “semantic” and “natural language” are pitched out onto the field.
Private beta versions [...]

Semantic Development Relies on User Input

Accuracy of new semantic applications may be directly related to semantic literacy.
Checking out AskWiki inspired me to consider how the new generation of semantic applications — AskWiki and Freebase, among others –will rely heavily on user-generated “knowledge.” But what will happen if users don’t completely understand the semantic templates or commit to comprehensive and concise [...]

True Knowledge: Natural Language Search Engine

Making a natural language search engine for the masses–keep it on the DL.
True Knowledge is an internet search company that has produced as a key product, a new natural language search engine, although they don’t say that. Also missing is “semantic.” I only mention this because it seems to me that True Knowledge and Freebase [...]

Semantic Database Open for All: Why Freebase Matters

An Alpha database casually inviting everyone to add their special know-how.
Freebase, an intended database of “the world’s knowledge,” powered by MetaWeb, may appear to be many different things depending upon your perspective/vantage point.
In its own words: “Freebase is an open database of the world’s information.” The goal: collect and structure the universe of data for [...]

Ask.com Commercial Challenges Current Search Audience

Less challenge to competitors and more challenge to search audience.
This recent Ask.com TV commercial asks the audience “Does your search engine do this?” Answer: an Ask.com search results page that combines text results with image, video and even music, an assortment of mixed media.
Will messages like this create search users that [...]