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 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 [...]

New Biomedical Semantic Search Engine

GoPubMed’s Cool Feature…   
GoPubMed is a new semantic search engine designed to deliver the ultimate research muscle to the biomedical, medical, and life sciences realm. Researchers, scientists, and general users may gain quicker more “cross-pollinated” search results for deeply layered data requests.
One of the more intriguing features of GoPubMed is the “Hot Research.” This is [...]

Web Search: It’s a Maturity Thang

Growing pains: Search engines, web design, web writers, internet users.
If we could plot the web savvy of the virtual collective, at what point in a lifecycle–human, let’s say–would we be? Infancy? Dangerous toddler? Terrible twos? Confused tween? Self-destructive teen?
Factors that dispute the comprehension/comprehensiveness and challenge the “learning” abilities of both keyword-based and semantic (linguistic meaning) [...]

Distill Your Own Web Hooch: Help Build Semantic Web

How Might Yahoo! Pipes Add Semantic Meaning to
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The Question Asked

What Does Hakia Have that Google Does Not and What Does Google Have that Hakia Does Not?
Google’s Basics of Search tips say that words like who, what, and how are summarily dropped from Google search queries simply because this is how keyword-centric engines operate. I now know this is occasionally the reason for weak [...]

Petaflop Supercomputer: What Big Questions Will it Solve?

Thanks to a big OOPS, the world is now privy to pretty specific info on the IBM-National Science Foundation deal–the one where the NSF grants IBM the right to build the world’s biggest supercomputer. Well, IBM currently holds the record with its Blue Gene/L. The next-gen super-duper will apparently take over with the larger (read [...]