Explore the Semantic Web’s standards and real-world applications TechRepublic (blog) Here’s an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. …

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Neil Budde is President of DailyMe.com and also Newstogram.com. Both endeavors are based around developing consolidataions of articles based on the active use of readers.

Newstogram helps people to understand the news interest to people looking for news, and provides analytics to publishers. DailyMe.com is a personalized news service that learns what readers are interested in and delivers it to them.

- DailyMe removes the difficulty of explicitly defining readers’ interests by semantically analyzing what readers continue to read, and finding more of the same, and delivering that to them.

- The platform continually reviews the readers’ activities and fine tunes what it delivers. However, as few as 5 story views are needed to start the process.

- Newstogram helps publishers present customized mini-sites to each user based on what they are interested in, and what is being published. The platform can be customized by the publisher.

- Analytics deliver deep information about the types of information and the readers that are most important to them. This is beyond the typical page view analytics.

Paul Berry is the CTO of Huffington Post. The Huffington Post uses semantic technology in a few areas, and the use of semantic tech has had a significant positive effect on the Post, allowing it to grow rapidly and still maintain an effective editorial oversight for its steady stream of reader commentary.

- The Post has a custom built comments application paired with a moderation component. Their analysis goes beyond simple “bad words”, and uses semantic analysis to review and categorize comments that may need human moderation.

- Their investment in the company Adaptive Semantics brings advanced semantic analysis of comments directly into the workflow.

- The use of semantics has enabled Huffington Post to grow from 3,000 comments per day to more than 90,000 comments per day.

- Developing applications to find ‘sentiment’ on comments and blog posts using semantics.

Listen to the interview to hear Paul’s comments on the use of semantics at Huffington Post.

Five fearless predictions for the smart business of the 2010s SmartPlanet.com (blog) Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, says “linked data” that’s available across the Internet will help drive new innovations and decision making. …

2009 in review: Tech buzzwords V3.co.uk Yes, Tim Berners-Lee’s idea of a semantic web is obviously not catchy enough, because what you’re more likely to hear it referred to next year is Web 3.0. … and more »

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ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 1: Linked Data ReadWriteWeb (blog) Note: the interview was published in two parts, with Part 1 on the topic of Linked Data. Part 2 explored other topics and can be found here. …

Meaning Tool: Training Semantic Search With Feeds ReadWriteWeb (blog) Similar to Open Calais, the service appears to use the linked data standard to retrieve data via dereferenceable URIs on the web. From there you can search …

Siri co-founder and CTO Tom Gruber is excited about the “big think small screen” concept, and he expects to translate that excitement to others when he gives a keynote address at WebMediaBrands’ Web 3.0 conference next month.

So, what exactly is the idea about? Roughly, it amounts to a combination of semantic web technology, more bandwidth, and big servers that—thanks to the cloud computing surge—together enable an increasing amount of intelligence in the hands of consumers, and literally so through mobile devices.

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In the final installment of this two-part series, Dean Allemang and Scott Henninger look into how the insights about semantic web education have an impact on the adoption of semantic web technologies.

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With 2010 fast approaching, it’s time to look into the crystal ball and see what might – or might not – take place in the Web 3.0 world next year. To that end, SemanticWeb.com asked some leaders in the next-generation Web space to share their own predictions around the Semantic Web, semantic technologies, linked data, social networks and all things related.

Read on and see if their future-think matches your own.

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