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Veveo Adds Four Patents for Semantic Technologies

Angela Guess — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:04:25 +0000

TVTechnology.com reports, “Veveo, a provider of semantic technologies to bridge the usability gap in connected devices and applications with intelligent search, discovery and personalization solutions, has been awarded four new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, bringing its total count of issued patents to 38. The new patents relate to improving search experiences in the context of current usability trends around social, device based universal search, or semantic and intelligent searching capabilities. The patent entitled ‘User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user relationships’ (USPTO number 8,423,583) covers incremental search capabilities based on relationships of users.” continued…

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Session Spotlight: Beyond the Blob – Semantic Video’s Coming of Age

Angela Guess — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Michael Dunn, CTO of Hearst Media has been quoted saying, “Video, in its native form, is a blob of content… and it’s hard to extract data from it.” Thankfully, semantic technologies are starting to take video “beyond the blob,” and that is precisely what panelists at the upcoming Semantic Technology and Business Conference in San Francisco will discuss.

The panel discussion Beyond the Blob: Semantic Video’s Coming of Age is set to begin at 2:25 on Monday, June 3 at SemTechBiz and will feature a panel of semantic web professionals with a broad range of experience regarding semantic video. The panel will be moderated by Kristen Milhollin, Project Lead & Founder of GoodSpeaks.org, an organization aimed at creating a nonprofit media and data distribution network that increases public awareness and support of the work done by nonprofit and other charitable organizations. continued…

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Veveo Receives US Patent for Semantic Search

Angela Guess — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:00:41 +0000

According to a new article out of the company, “Veveo, a leading provider of semantic technologies to bridge the usability gap in connected devices and applications with intelligent search, discovery and personalization solutions, announced today the issuance of a new patent application, bringing its total count of issued patents to 31 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Veveo has filed more than 67 patent applications to date for advanced technologies that support more than 100 million connected devices and televisions globally through Tier-1 operators and device OEMs in the pay television and mobile sectors.” continued…

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Jinni Partners with Prisa TV

Angela Guess — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:30:46 +0000

Prisa TV, a leading Spanish pay-TV operator, has partnered with Jinni. According to the article, “Prisa TV, the company behind CANAL+ SPAIN, is the third major European television network to offer its subscribers this unique semantic-based user experience powered by Jinni for TV viewing within the household. Pablo Romero Sulla, Director of Content at CANAL+ YOMVI (the CANAL+ online environment, providing live broadcast and VOD streaming), stated ‘Our goal is to offer our subscribers the best possible experience available. When we decided to further enhance our service by adding new discovery and recommendation capabilities, we decided to offer a whole new entertainment experience, as provided by Jinni’.” continued…

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Introducing ViSTA-TV

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:00:14 +0000

Libby Miller and Chris Newell of the BBC recently introduced the ViSTA-TV project. They write, “ViSTA-TV (Video Stream Analytics for Viewers in the TV Industry) is a two-year collaborative research project about linked open data, statistics and recommendations for live TV, involving online TV viewing data, programme metadata and other external sources of data. We are working with three research institutions (University of Zurich, TU Dortmund University, and the VU University Amsterdam) and two companies (Zattoo and Rapid-I) to create: (1) Real-time TV recommendations for viewers. (2) Highly accurate low-latency audience research. (3) A high-quality, linked open dataset about TV. (4) A marketplace for audience metrics.” continued…

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Jinni Launches Set-Top-Box for Personalized TV Experience

Angela Guess — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:00:49 +0000

Jinni, a company that we have covered here, has released its first set-top-box for personalization of real-time television. The article states, “Introduced progressively by European IPTV operator (Belgacom), starting June 19th, this enables the subscribers to benefit from a complete cross-platform content consumption experience. Belgacom partnered with Jinni in September 2010 and took part in the startup’s second round of funding, in early 2011. The already available platforms include an online service, mobile app and Connected TV app, all powered by the Jinni engine. The Jinni cross-platform experience is part of Belgacom’s hard-hitting strategy, aimed at maintaining competitive advantage by offering a superior service to its customers.” continued…

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Big TV Metadata

Angela Guess — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:30:40 +0000

Red Bee Media, a company that “builds bridges between content and viewers” has posted a new article to their corporate blog regarding the growing volumes of television metadata. The article states, “TV Metadata is becoming increasingly rich and complex – powering increasingly advanced experiences. At a basic level, metadata tells us which programmes are available, and informs us about the content of those programmes. But metadata is getting richer and even bigger to support more visually engaging and functionally sophisticated user experiences.” continued…

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A Semantic Future

Angela Guess — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:00:09 +0000

Luca Scagliarini recently shared his insight into why he believes semantics will play an important role in the future of technology. He writes, “As a kid growing up in Milan I was obsessed with two things: sports and the future… While other kids probably dreamed about having superpowers, my dreams were about a future that was more grounded in possibility than fantasy, about inventions that, with the right combination of genius and determination, were possible. Having my own personal television, one small enough to take anywhere and where I could watch anything I wanted, anytime, was something I knew would come eventually. And while the mini TV was an encouraging sign, the technology was still many years away.” continued…

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ABC News Vet Paul Mason Steps Up as CEO of Link TV

Angela Guess — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:00:02 +0000

ABC News veteran Paul Mason has joined Link TV as the company’s new president and CEO. In a recent video, Mason “shares an astute observation about the current state of network and cable TV news. He suggests that while these twin mediums are great at reporting the initial details of major news events like the Japanese earthquake and the Arab spring, there is a real lack of proper, follow-up reporting once things die down.” See the video here. continued…

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Tagging TV on a New Level: Scene by Scene Metadata

Angela Guess — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:26:53 +0000

A new article looks at a developing trend of not just tagging television shows by episode but by the content of individual scenes. The article states, “Historically, TV Metadata has been used to supply Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) and therefore has been adequate for description at a show level. But what about at the scene level? And why is scene level metadata — or Tagging TV — the new oil? It’s now all about applying metadata not just to a whole piece of content, but
individual chunks within it, such as a movie scene or song. Of course, this can be relevant both for production and search/discovery… but the real value lies in providing contextual data on the second screen — whether that be curated or automated, factual or commercial.” continued…

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Semantic Technology’s Role in Leanback TV

Angela Guess — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:25:46 +0000

A recent article discusses the growing trend of semantically powered “leanback” video players. The article begins, “When you are sat on the sofa at the end of the day relaxing and watching TV, maybe eating food and not in the mood to have to keep constantly making decisions about what to watch you might not think that you are in a situation where Linked Data and SPARQL queries could be useful. Yet the flexibility of the data that can be obtained from data sources supporting these technologies makes them ideal candidates to power a Leanback TV experience. With the right query it is possible to curate a collection of video podcasts that can be played one after each other to keep the TV viewer happy. They still have control, they can still go to any podcast in the collection, but they are not faced with a decision every ten minutes about what to watch, allowing them to relax and discover new content.” continued…

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Trendrr Partners with Twitter and the Weather Channel

Angela Guess — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:30:12 +0000

A recent article reports that Twitter has partnered with the Weather Channel “to push weather related tweets onto its enormously well-trafficked cable network and website, with the two groups splitting the ad revenue. For Twitter this is an opportunity to finally use its scale and speed in a partnership that can rake in good revenue. For New York based Trendrr, this was a chance to work behind the scenes on a massive deal. The company will be doing the semantic analysis to separate a tweet about a sudden rain shower from a tweet about your decision to take a quick shower after the gym.” continued…

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Fostering TV Everywhere with Metadata

Angela Guess — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:30:13 +0000

A recent article discusses the value of metadata in linking television content together, an important facet of a wider semantic relationship-building process. The article begins, “Today’s consumers want TV content not just in the web browser, but on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles — you name it. However, for ‘TV Everywhere’ (TVE) to succeed, the industry cannot simply offer content on a multitude of devices — it must also ace the viewer’s search and discovery experience. Enter, metadata.” continued…

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Jinni Offers Taste & Mood Based Discovery Engine for Film & TV

Angela Guess — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:22:19 +0000

A recent article reports, “mgMEDIA, developers of multi-device digital content distribution platform Open4Content and Jinni, innovators of the only taste-and-mood based discovery engine for movies and TV shows, today announced a new strategic partnership to deliver a fun, intuitive and highly accurate Jinni semantic discovery experience. The Jinni discovery engine will be built in to the core of mgMEDIA’s over-the-top platform, Open4Content. Users will enjoy finding and viewing high-quality entertainment that suits their personal tastes and moods anytime, anywhere.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: 80 Legs & KMi

Angela Guess — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:30:02 +0000

80 Legs is looking for a Systems Operations Engineer and a Data Engineer in Houston, TX. A qualified candidates for the Systems Operations Engineer position “Takes on the challenge of understanding and monitoring a complex, high-performance back-end infrastructure. Is constantly looking for ways to improve the performance of back-end operations and make monitoring those systems more efficient. Has a combination of development and systems experience.” The Data Engineer candidate “Understands and has experience with big data technologies (e.g., NoSQL, Hadoop). Has a solid understanding of data structures. Gets excited when working with unfathomably large data sets and computational challenges they present.” continued…

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