Freebase information is freely sharable under the Creative Commons Attribution license, and already has captured structured data from Wikipedia, four million songs, 100,000 restaurants and census information. Radar Networks, the other well funded steal
Emergent structure vs. intelligent design: This all reflects a fundamental if still incoherent debate. There's one school of thought that says that if you just collect enough data and throw enough algorithms at it, the inherent structure - and the underst
NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead... it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise in
The implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user.
Hillis has bigger fish to fry than self-programming gadgets. In the past, he's expressed a desire to create machines that transcend what he sees as the limitations of human beings. "I guess I'm not overly perturbed by the prospect that there might be some
Freebase, having suctioned up some freely available web databases (e.g., Wikipedia, Musicbrainz), structures the data by assigning "types" to entities, which automatically associates additional data that Freebase has defined as related to these "types." T
The Intellipedia consists of three wikis ...used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands, and federal depar
I've gotten hammered in the comments on my post about freebase for suggesting that the semantic web was only about controlled ontologies....What's going to be really interesting is to see how the Semantic Web technologies develop now that we have actual,
“We’re trying to create the world’s database, with all of the world’s information,” Mr. Hillis said. All of the information in Freebase will be available under a license that makes it freely shareable, Mr. Hillis said. In the future, he said, t
I do have to take issue with the good Mr. O'Reilly on one point - his contrast between a bottom-up approach in freebase and the opposite in the W3C's approach is almost diametrically out, he's seriously mislocating his elbow here. The Semantic Web languag
Why people would help either company build such a valuable database is unclear. At least with Freebase, people can take data out of it as well, so it has the potential to become a common asset the whole Web could benefit from. Once the database is fille
"People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty...integrated across a huge space of data..." Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe
The Semantic Web will never work because it depends on businesses working together, on them cooperating. We are talking about the most conservative bunch of people in the world, people who believe in greed and cut-throat business ethics. And they're all g
Innovation in making data relevant to the one or two words that we type into a search engine is Web 2.0. Adding to the plethora of data is the advent of social networking, Ajax; shared apps across the back end internet cloud, there are already frameworks
A 5-minute video "brief" on semantic web/web 2.0, separation of form and content (XML, CSS), and the way "machine-readable" web content creates a reciprocity (mutual relationship) between human and machine, where both "use" each other.
Semantic Radar is a semantic metadata detector for Firefox...when detected, shows an icon in browser's status bar. Currently it supports SIOC, FOAF and DOAP metadata.