Kyield is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Santa Fe, NM. The post states, “Kyield is an emerging leader in advanced knowledge systems working at the confluence of organizational management, artificial intelligence and software systems (Convergence of BI, MDM, Performance, and Search/Discovery). We are seeking multiple self-motivated and innovative software engineers for upcoming large-scale projects in our pilot program. Multiple areas of expertise preferred with ability to expand skills quickly as needed. Learn more about Kyield here: http://www.kyield.com. Contract, part-time and full-time candidates encouraged to apply.” Read more

Kyield founder Mark Montgomery has posted a new video entitled Kyield Enterprise – Data Tailored to Each Entity. the nearly eleven minute presentation is the third video in a series on Montgomery’s “revolutionary system that provides adaptive data management based on the self-managed profiles of each entity.” Watch the full video below. Read more

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We recently rounded up some thought leaders’ perspectives on the big semantic trends of 2011 – most (if not all) of them positive. Here’s some further perspective about where hopes and expectations fell a little short of reality:

• The biggest lost possibility was not rethinking the whole RDF stack. Instead of actually reducing complexity, it seems the direction is hiding complexity. This makes its proposition unattractive for web developers. – Andraž Tori, Founder and Director, Zemanta

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To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we’ve accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that’s quickly passing us by.

Some highlights follow. You’ll see respondents hit on some common themes throughout, such as Big Data, sentiment analytics, specific vertical industry adoption, and the standards space:

• SKOS has become an increasingly popular entry point for organizations that want to use semantic technology in practical applications without worrying about the more complicated aspects of semantic web technology. – Bob  DuCharme, solutions architect, TopQuadrant

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Near the end of August Kyield founder Mark Montgomery was granted an artificial intelligence patent by the USPTO, titled “Modular System for Optimizing Knowledge Yield In the Digital Workplace.” Kyield is developing a modular and interoperable semantic system that aims at delivering a higher level of yield for the knowledge worker. The new patent’s value, Montgomery says, can be found in filters for semantically managing data quantity and quality, and continually adjusting the consumption of data that can be automatically collected and audited on the web, intranets, or wireless devices. Those filters – think of them as data valves – apply to all three modules represented in the patent.

“There’s a correct assumption that the performance of your organization in the future, even now, is going to be dependent on how you manage your data,” Montgomery says. “Data represents everything in your organization – your intellectual assets, customers, employees, knowledge workers. Everything is digitized now. We’ve created this exponential growth of data and this system lets you mange that data for the entire organization in an adaptable manner.”

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Mark Montgomery, CEO and Founder of Kyield, sent us this elevtor pitch. We are collecting these from our readers in an attempt to answer the question “What is the Semantic Web?” If you think you have a pitch in you, check out the original challenge.

Thanks Mark!

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It doesn’t matter whether this month you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or anything else. In December, most everyone’s thoughts turn to presents. So, what makes it to the top of some semantic web and data experts’ holiday gift lists for their friends, family, colleagues – the world?

We asked, and their (mostly) semantic-web inspired holiday lists include some real and some imagined – not to mention imaginative – ideas. Read on:

John Breslin, Lecturer and researcher at NUI Galway, Creator of SIOC

If I could give out some Christmas tools or tips to colleagues or friends, the first would be to try out Drupal 7 on their own website, and get the metadata out there. I’d also ask that my friends show their friends some of the cool semantically-powered tools like Siri or Sig.ma to show the power of linking things together with semantics. Finally, in terms of useful non-semantic free programs, I’d give out Evernote, Dropbox, Inkscape, the Gimp, and TweetDeck (great for multiple keyword searches like “semantic web” OR semanticweb OR “sem web” OR semweb). Oh, and an online backup program of your choice, like Mozy or CrashPlan!

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