A recent article reports, “There’s an urgency among many organizations to create mobile applications that will engage customers, keep brands top of mind, and improve retention. In the rush to deliver a compelling application, too many of those same firms are launching apps built from the company perspective, without considering the user experience. As applications and services become more and more complex, for example, customers are often at a loss when trying to find what they need in a maze of menus and keywords.”

The article continues, “Understanding the intention of customers—what is known as semantic search—is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the evolution of mobile devices, services, and applications. Read more

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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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How cell phones will replace learning Computerworld, MA But consider the combination of such capabilities with the coming Web 3.0. You’ve probably heard the term Web 3.0, but like everyone else are not sure what it is, or even if it’s some meaningless marketing term. Nearly everyone who speaks about Web 3.0 …

Executive Summary

Within the past few months, the Semantic Web has become something any Webmaster must take serious, because the key components are ready for production usage, and there are tangible benefits: With GoodRelations, there is now a standard vocabulary for e-commerce, RDFa provides a stable syntax for embedding such data in existing Web pages, and Yahoo Searchmonkey creates a direct business incentive for companies of any size to care.

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The digital revolution is responsible for igniting hundreds of smaller revolutions which have ultimately transformed technology and communications, creating one of the most influential and life changing events that humanity has experienced in current times, and possibly throughout its history. These revolutions continue to reshape our cell phones, computers, cars, even the Internet, profoundly changing the way we view ourselves and the world.

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— DENNIS THOMAS, SANJEEV MISHRA

Executive Summary

The future web is expected to evolve into a situation aware web that surfaces the hidden knowledge of enterprises and individuals and enables greatly more powerful paradigms. Actualizing these requirements demands a semantic technology that is magnitudes greater in efficiency and performance than conventional layered technologies.

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