Google announced today that it has acquired Metaweb, the company behind Freebase — a free, semantic database of “over 12 million people, places, and things in the world.” This is from their...
Web search guru Danny Sullivan has a great response to the NYT editorial on regulating search engine algorithms: The New York Times Algorithm and Why It Needs Government Regulation. Here’s how it...
Here’s a great resource if you want to come up to speed on ontologies and their importance today. Professor Barry Smith of the University at Buffalo held a two-day course, An Introduction to...
Full Title: New York Times editorializes about the Google search ranking algorithm In what may be a first, today’s New York Times has an editorial about an algorithm. No, they haven’t waded into...
Google’s Open Spot Android app lets people leaving parking spots share the information with others searching for parking nearby. Running the app shows you parking spots within a 1.5km. New...
Semantic Overflow is great largely because it benefits from the good design and implementation of the StackExchange framework. Could our site be be improved with Semantic Web technology? It’s...
Training Examples Q&A is a site created by Joseph Turian where “data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis,...
Full Title: Semantic overflow, a collaboratively edited question and answer site for the Semantic Web Semantic Overflow is a great way for the Semantic Web community to help one another with...
Full Title: Journal of Web Semantics 2009 impact factor highest yet: 3.412 Thomson Reuters has released their 2009 Journal Citation Report and we are happy to see that the Journal of Web...
Google publishes a list of the 1000 most popular Web sites based on unique visitors to the top-level domain. The list is compiled by their (DoubleClick) Ad Planner group and shows estimates for...