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 [...]

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) [...]

Attaching Semantic Meaning to Google Maps

Spontaneous creation of the semantic topology of maps.

Google Maps is evolving, and, like semantic web, the more people use it to map locations and points of interest the more it weaves a fabric of meaning around a point or set of points on a map. For example, today I was researching a few cities in [...]

Distill Your Own Web Hooch: Help Build Semantic Web

How Might Yahoo! Pipes Add Semantic Meaning to
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Ultimate Word Game

Not talking about search engines-although a good argument could be posited for the “word game” association.
Human Brain Cloud…give it a try.

Will WebFountain Power the Universe Wide Web (UWW)?

What is WebFountain and why do you have to read documents on semantic web to hear of it?
Compared to IBM’s project, WebFountain, search engines and search directories garner attention because they are the surface accoutrements of the WWW. But after reading a bit on WebFountain, I propose the WWW will be left to such surface [...]