Semantic search snake oil- June 21, 2008 It's a bit of a fantasy to imagine - as some people seem to - that people are not going to need to search for information on the Web any time soon. So, like it or not, its capacity to improve search will be a litmus test for the semantic web. It's basically a good thing that companies like Hakia and Powerset are having a go at radically improving search. But the baseline position is prettyhttp://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/06/semantic-search-snake-oil.html Not an OS- June 17, 2008 Tim Bray: Not an OS: "the Internets killer app is people, has always been, will always be. Every single step forward has involved finding new routes and patterns and tools for people to use interacting with other people. No exceptions."http://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/06/not-os.html Video: Nova Spivack Making Sense of the Semantic Web- June 4, 2008 What's interesting in Making Sense of the Semantic Web is the way in which definitions reflect products, in this case Twine.http://nelh.blogspot.com/2008/06/video-nova-spivack-making-sense-of.html |