Linked Data: the return of the Cloud

By Paul Miller | September 23, 2010, 6:05am PDT

The Linked Data Cloud diagram is back; bigger, better, and powered by the CKAN registry tool.

Siri acquired by Apple; iPhone becomes the Virtual Personal Assistant?

By Paul Miller | April 30, 2010, 1:12pm PDT

Apple buys Siri, and brings real semantic smarts to Cupertino.

David Siegel discusses the Power of Pull; a different view of the Semantic Web?

By Paul Miller | March 18, 2010, 4:57am PDT

This podcast conversation with David Siegel discusses his latest book, Pull, and explores the many ways in which Siegel believes a semantic web can power business today and into the future.

Putting the Semantic Web to work in e-Commerce with GoodRelations

By Paul Miller | February 22, 2010, 2:52am PST

Martin Hepp and Jamie Taylor answer questions about the GoodRelations vocabulary in a podcast conversation, exploring opportunities to enrich the way in which we compare goods and services.

Siri offers virtual assistance, with a little help from your iPhone

By Paul Miller | February 4, 2010, 10:29pm PST

Semantic Technology startup, Siri, releases a Virtual Personal Assistant for the iPhone and simplifies a wide range of tasks for US consumers on the move. Just by speaking to their phone, users can make dinner reservations, check the weather, find movies, flights and more.

Oracle delivers native support for Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais service

By Paul Miller | September 1, 2009, 5:15am PDT

Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant’s OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais’ natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.
More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product such as Oracle’s database says much about how far [...]

Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web

By Paul Miller | August 10, 2009, 3:46am PDT

Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration’s Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers.
At the heart of many of today’s initiatives [...]

New open source Semantic Web store from Garlik capable of enterprise scale

By Paul Miller | July 14, 2009, 5:20am PDT

An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of ’scale.’ With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to argue that the technology is [...]

Semantic Web Gang podcast looks back at the Semantic Technology Conference

By Paul Miller | July 9, 2009, 4:48am PDT

June’s episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.
Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event’s highlights and the underlying trends at work.

New York Times embraces Linked Data

By Paul Miller | June 18, 2009, 12:36pm PDT

The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper’s innovative adoption of semantic technologies;

“The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and was available bound in either paper ($6) or cloth ($8). In [...]