Comments on: A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed

By: VladimirA

VladimirA — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:25:45 +0000

Open Calais is probably the my favorite. I honestly believe it has the potential for developing truely semantic applications. You have a nice list of applications here, though. Well done!

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By: NatMich

NatMich — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:28:27 +0000

Totally agree that Web 3.0 is about semantic web. There are some really great applications here that I've personally tried out (like Zemanta) and some that I would really love to check out. Great post!

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By: Cause Related Marketing

Cause Related Marketing — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:20:05 +0000

I'm looking forward to the emergence of the semantic web but at the same time wary of it's implications.

In the same way many people already adopt the attitude - if it's not on the first page of Google it:
1. Mustn't be any good
2. Doesn't exist
semantic engines will give a predetermined result (which can be altered by the technology owner).

So, whilst on the one hand it offers untold rewards in terms of information access/retrieval and dissemination, it also offers an easier way to subvert social memes and meanings.

Always a double edged sword...

All the best,
Tom

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Cause Related Marketing — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:20:05 +0000

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By: aka keronos

aka keronos — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:42:25 +0000

thanks for this interesting overview

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By: cblab

cblab — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:11:58 +0000

Cool! Nice list.

By: William Mougayar

William Mougayar — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:14:37 +0000

That's a great overview. There's also http://portal.eqentia.com, a semantic news aggregation platform with a network of out-of-the-box business-technology topic portals. The rich faceted navigation and deep content harvesting are key features,- plus it's a customizable enterprise platform.

By: philip

philip — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:48:42 +0000

Great post glad to see the list and description of each. You should consider adding Raveable to this list. We semantically analyze hotel reviews and use sentiment analysis to make recommendations.

By: gengstrand

gengstrand — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:29 +0000

I'm a big fan of Open Calais which makes it really easy for web site developers to participate in the semantic web. I have gone into more detail about deploying with Calais over at http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/linked/data

By: Oz DiGennaro (AC0IF)

Oz DiGennaro (AC0IF) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:33 +0000

More for the techies:
ontos.com - a European company that does linguistically-motivated and ontologically-guided text analysis. Send a piece of text to their RESTful API and get back triples about that text.
In beta, it's a bit difficult to use (meaning I haven't fully succeeded yet).

Look into Semantic V too. Compare its analysis which uses locality and clustering to analyze, instead of linguistics.

Anyone know what's going on with Wolfram-Alpha's web service API. I just get errors "that service doesn't exist"
Oz

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:40:13 +0000

Andraz, I actually believe that this “reblog” functionality should be disabled by default. I know that it might seem like the best way to “virally” distribute your brand name, just like hotmail did with their one sentence adverts at the bottom of each email sent freely. But embedding it within longer-lifetime blog posts (compared to emails) is not preferable – to me at least.

Nevertheless, you provide an outstanding and unique service. I need to play around with Zemanta API. Seems interesting.

By: andraz

andraz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:32 +0000

@Amer

Zemanta's "reblog" button that we append in every post as to make it rebloggable can be disabled in preferences. Or deleted manually.

Zemanta also offers an API for developers. You can use it to link any text with Freebase, DBpedia, Crunchbase, etc, categorize it, find entities...

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

By: andraz

andraz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:58:22 +0000

Hi Bamieh,
I am Andraz, CTO at Zemanta.

Thank you for reviewing Zemanta in this list of great applications that will hopefully shape the future of the web in years to come.

I am wondering as to what do you mean by link spamming? We monitor all the content we index for spam and try very hard to suggest only links to content that is original. If you got suggested anything you didn't expect please let me know the url.
[on that note, I just added this blog to our global index, so it will be recommended to blog writers using Zemanta as a place to link to]

Also to note, Zemanta is not only end-user application, it also offers an API access to its text understanding engine. You can send in text and get back tags, entities, suggested links and images and categories. More about the Zemanta API can be found at http://developer.zemanta.com

Thank you again for this review and whenever you have any questions, let me know (andraz@zemanta.com)!
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

By: Giovanni Tummarello

Giovanni Tummarello — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:26:03 +0000

If i may, i suggest also a look at http://sig.ma . While today the data out there might not be just that much, there is probably already enough to get enthusiastic about the potential of Web Data aggregation.

By: ranjitp

ranjitp — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:33:23 +0000

Good round-up. Of the bunch, I find Open Calais and Wolfram|Alpha the most interesting.

I'd like to add MashLogic to this list. We distribute a browser extension (Firefox and IE) that scans web pages and automatically adds relevant, contextual links based on your preferences. This brings a rich variety of information to your fingertips, reducing the need for a trip to your favorite search engine.

The underlying technology uses semantic intelligence to extract terms and match them to appropriate sources, all in real-time. We've also just added the capability to peek through those inscrutable short URLs before you click on them -- Safe Browsing.

Try it out. Safe & standard add-on install (and uninstall) process.

By: kristathomas

kristathomas — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:46:06 +0000

Great piece M., and thanks for mentioning OpenCalais. We've been busy ramping up the free service to keep pave with demand, and just today we

By: Elliot

Elliot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:04:15 +0000

For the techie folks out there, add AlchemyAPI to the list. This natural language processing service auto-tags any text or web content, generating semantic web meta-data (RDF, Linked Data, etc).

Works in more languages (8) than any other service available today, and links to GeoNames, OpenCyc, Freebase, DBpedia and other Linked Data resources. Offers language detection and other advanced features not found elsewhere.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:09:59 +0000

Well… I read that PeepToday was designed for iphone and I find the interface simple and easy on that device (but it's just my opinion !!!)

By: butch jackson

butch jackson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:49:51 +0000

A shameless plug. Please have a look at the virtual mediaspaces platform app in the screencast http://bit.ly/3aHVf. Its a RIA, Cloud Services based platform overlay that provides services to enrich information and social interactions across all social networks. It provides services to seamlessly integrate user generated content, video, audio, text, whiteboard annotations with information dynamically pulled in from a wide range of data sources based on the user's context. It uses OpenCalais with an Ontology of content types to enrich information through the addition of semantic processing that is packaged and tagged in sharable multimedia database that stores data as "content packages". Sharing states can be set as "on going" or "recorded" and each users mediaspace can access other users mediaspaces and assume their content package states. A component called the "Informer" enables the platform to pull data from many sources across government, and business which a become feeds for semantic processing based users context. mediaspaces could be the perfect app to act as a real-time "data lens" for the government as a platform idea being proposed by Tim O'reilly.

By: M.Bamieh

M.Bamieh — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:41:19 +0000

Amer I've been cozying up to Bing and now that they struck a deal with wolfram i think I'm going to like them more :)
Beirut Juice is a gem and really helpful for splitting your screen into 2, hopefully you have a wide screen.
Ethan Twine takes its time to adjust to your liking and the burden falls on you, But peeptoday while more easier to customize from the getgo its interface leaves much to be desired.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:15:33 +0000

Twine is a good one, but I don't like the idea that I can't manage my profile in details. That's why I use www.peepToday.com . This one retrieves news and videos around a profile I built with a kind of "semantic" database. You should have a look at it.

I think I'll also give a try to Inform.

Thanks for that post !

By: Beiruta

Beiruta — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:18 +0000

I am so anxious to try out all these applications! They sound like a lot of fun and they seem to cut down on search time! I think Juice is the first one for me!

Thanks for the great post! Very informative and useful indeed!

By: Amer Kawar

Amer Kawar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:33 +0000

I like Wolfram alpha, especially for mathematic equations – it just gives you load of information and visualizations. Google Squared seems interesting, but it just didn't attract me like Wolfram Alpha did.

I didn't like Zemanta, they spam every email and blog post with their logo and link, and that's not very respectful of them.

Open Calais is great and they have a very generous API. Any developer with interests in linguistic or “semantifying” an application – not a real word but you got what I mean – should give it a shot.

I need to try out some of the other services you mentioned. Useful post :)