Houston, We Have Some Semantic Web Start-ups That Need Funding
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorSlowing down their start-up investments, VCs
aren’t raising as much money these days. Recently Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association said the third quarter saw the smallest number of venture funds raising money in a single quarter since the third quarter of 1994.Just 17 venture capital funds raised $1.6 billion in the third quarter this year – in 1994’s third quarter, 17 funds were also raised and the lowest level of dollars were committed since the first quarter of 2003 when $938 million was raised
Glue Gets Game
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorOfficially launched Tuesday, GetGlue.com represents a new dimension for semantic web start-up
Adaptive Blue – and its users, too.Glue is the semantic recognition technology for helping users find what they may like next in the way of movies, books, music and so on based on what they, their friends, and others using the social network already like. One big change is that now Glue is a destination, not just a browser plug-in, with a continuous stream of suggestions, recommendations and the like available right at the
XBRL, Semantic Web Technologies Complement Each Other
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorAt the recent workshop co-organized by W3C and XBRL International on improving access to financial data on the web, a few key issues related to the semantic web took center stage.
The goal of the workshop was to identify opportunities and challenges for interactive access to financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the broader opportunities for semantic technologies.The workshop took place against the background of mandates by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for large U.S. public
Building Rich Content Pages Automatically
Scott Koegler SemanticWeb.com ContributorThis interview with Tim Musgrove, founder and CEO of
Textdigger.com highlights some interesting information about semantics and unstructured data. Textdigger is an SaaS service that, among other things, searches text documents and brings together seemingly unrelated documents based on common themes.
The service can search through documents and identify themes without those themes having been previously defined. The program is being used by news organizations to build new landing pages that consolidate articles already in inventory,
Encouraging Signs for Semantic-Related Jobs, Indeed
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorUnemployment is hovering near 10 percent, and last week a survey of 44 professional forecasters released by the National Association for Business Economics predicted the unemployment rate would in fact hit that mark in the first quarter of 2010 before dropping to 9.5 percent by year’s end. But it will be 2012 before the market regains most of the jobs lost in the recession, NABE says.That might get you thinking what the job market is like for Web 3.0 specialists. Job search engine
Indeed.com is one tool to help you get a feel for things.First, the not-so-good news: IT Job postings in general have
Opening Doors to a World of Ideas and Research
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com Contributor
Researchers have high hopes that semantic technology will help them deal with the issues of making academic and scientific information more easily explorable and accessible.
AcaWiki, built using
Semantic MediaWiki, launched this month, its goal being the creation of a Wikipedia for academic research that often is locked behind firewalls or hidden in academic
What Are the Odds? This Semantic-Powered Site Tells You
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorYou’ve heard of the Book of Love – now there’s also a Book of Odds.
Don’t take out your betting cards yet. Rather than being a tool to help you get lucky on the next horse race,
Book of Odds is about providing the odds of everyday life. It defines itself as an ever-expanding semantic database of probabilities that helps users find unexpected links between odds statements – the odds of a man over 50 being diagnosed with heart disease is about the same as the odds that an adult is afraid of
Better Health – For Users, Publishers and Advertisers - Through Semantics
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com ContributorThe Internet is a huge source of health information for consumers – and that makes the health care and life sciences publishing and advertising community a good market for some semantic web companies to tap into.
One of those companies is Knewco, whose semantic platform combines knowledge discovery for the user with contextual advertising for content providers and marketers.The company, which is working on commercializing the product this quarter with the goal of fully rolling out the technology next year, recently named as CEO Dave Rothenberg, the founder of
Semantic Web 
An application for online answer engine Wolfram Alpha apparently is a big hit with iPhone users. Here's an email we received today from the Wolfram Alpha team:
