If you’re like most people these days, you simply don’t have a lot of time to scan entire articles to see if they actually have the information you’re looking for. WikiSeer wants to do the work for you.

“When you browse or search on the Net, you often come across so many different kinds of documents and you don’t know what they’re about,” says the co-founder of the new service, still in beta, Sameer Yami. “There’s so much information overload, and we want to reduce that so you can just read what you are interested in.”

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What’s your social capital? PeerIndex is a new semantically-enabled service that purports to tell you.

The idea behind this service is to provide a relative measure of an individual’s online authority, and to do it by analyzing the person’s public activities in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs. You can elect to share or not share Facebook and LinkedIn info, but the company says that the more data you share, the better your chances are to improve your scores and index ranking. It explains that it has algorithms that take into account semantic factors (presumably to understand the nature of the content you tend to discuss, retweet, etc. – and its relevance to the dozens of topics it currently tracks as it derives scores), and social network input and sharing features (which appear to be less about follower or friend counts than it is about sharing relevant activity with the audience you want to impact). The topics it covers range from Google Inc. to cloud computing to social media and Chinese biz & economy.

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