This was already posted on our main blog, but since it is fairly technical news, I am reposting it here: Some interesting news today! Recently LinkTV did a comprehensive study on quality of semantic APIs and Zemanta came out on top in many respects! Here’s the conclusion on Entity Extraction API: In terms of quality [...]
Some interesting news today! Recently LinkTV did a comprehensive study on quality of semantic APIs and Zemanta came out on top in many respects! Here’s the conclusion on Entity Extraction API: In terms of quality and quantity of disambiguated Named Entities returned in these tests, Zemanta was the clear leader of the NLP API field. [...]
This was my second time ACM SF Bay Data Mining camp. The first thing to notice – it was big, 400 people or so hosted by eBay in San Jose. Image via CrunchBase The venue was much more hospitable to barcamp type of event than Hacker’s Dojo last time. The participants are a weird mix [...]
Image via CrunchBase This is my first time at SXSW, so here’s what it is: It’s fantastic and awful at the same time. It’s center of the tech world for a week, but completely detached from the real world. Foursquare and Gowalla are bigger than Facebook. Windows Phone 7 Series is taking over the world [...]
Image via Wikipedia Video has always been dear to Zemanta – our early roots lie in making video more discoverable on the web. That’s why a year ago we became excited when we heard from Hannah Eaves of LinkTV that they are researching how to use closed captioning and structured semantic data to create better [...]
At Zemanta we’re big fans of computers going an extra mile for us lazy humans. Ever increasing processing power and abundance of implicit and explicit data are going to provide fuel for this mile. Services that had looked impossible only a few years ago will become reality. Ones helping us book a restaurant, find the [...]
Image via Wikipedia Warning: non-tech post ahead. I was in Dublin last week where Patrick Cosgrave organized an exciting meetup of European startup funders. The meeting gave me a lot to think about, so here’s one of the thoughts. We chatted a lot about European startup ecosystem. One of the differences from Sillicon Valley is [...]
Guido – Photo by abragad via Flickr It has happened: We tricked Guido’s time machine! In a recent post titled “While-you-type searching” Guido describes a functionality of an editor looking under your fingers and doing web searches for the last few words you have entered. He writes: Sure, maybe you’re thinking “It looks like you’re writing [...]