http://www.zemanta.com/blog Content intelligence for everyone Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:16:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image via Wikipedia Cyc is one of the most notorious projects in artificial intelligence. Now spanning for over 20 years it has yet to deliver on initial promise of human-reasoning capabilities. While initial goals were too ambitious, we should still be quite happy with the achievements. Especially now when it ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/opencyc-wants-to-be-the-backbone-of-semantic-web/ Image via Wikipedia Nodalities is one of the bright stars of semantic web reporting. It's a magazine more concerned with business than academic aspects of semantic web. In last issue I had a pleasure to write an article about my view of how semantic data is changing the web game. ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/new-web-cambrian-explosion/ Summer is usually time to take a bit of time off and reflect on how you are doing. We took this chance to dig deep into our code and algorithms to spend extra time on fixing all the little mistakes that we made down the road to have a much ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/august-release-livewriter-support-and-improved-performance/ Despite warm sunny days, there are still plenty of conferences where you can find us in upcoming weeks: UX Week, 12-15 August, San Francisco Wordcamp, 16 August, San Francisco Drupalcon, 27-30 August, Szeged, Hungary We're also finalizing our presence at a few events in beginning of September: Ars Electronica Festival, 4-9 September, Linz, Austria dConstruct, 3-4 September, Brighton, UK i-Semantics, 3-5 September, Graz, ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/conferences-in-august-2008/ Having a good source of topics that are popular in blogosphere can be very useful tool for inspiration. The question when evaluating such tools is how do they arrive to this information? Some, like techmeme, monitor a select set of blogs and news sources to find emerging topics, others like ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/looking-for-blog-inspiration-zemanta-popular/ The core idea of Zemanta is to make blogging easier. While we try to do this by working on our contextual suggestions, we often notice unexplored area where bloggers are asking for someone to fill them, and make their blogging experience. Reblog is one such byproducts. The core idea is that ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/a-word-about-reblog/ Image via Wikipedia Exactly a year ago, Andraz and I were sitting in a cafe by the river, pondering whether we dare to test the limits of our imagination and apply for this unknown but strangely familiar beauty contest we found online. They were looking for the next Google they said, ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/seedcamp-2008-comming-up/ At recent event podcamp Boston 3, Nathan Burke and Ken Gellman, gave a presentation on Discovery- How People Find Blogs, Video and Podcasts They Love & What That Means To You. It's a great talk on how to promote your blog through different medium, and what do to to get ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/super-dope-ill-ninja-secret-trick-zemanta/ Image via Wikipedia We are glad we will be able to participate this year's Defrag conference in Denver, Colorado in November with the subtitle "The implicit web and more". I'll be talking about "Finding Serendipitous Information Through Context". Hoping to bring some insights about how computers are figuring out what's on ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/defrag-conference-discount-code/ Image by *extralab via Flickr Zemanta extensions and plugins have stoped working two hours ago. We apologize to all our users and ask for patience. Since we believe in transparency, here's the explanation: Amazon is a company best known for their online bookstore, but in the world of web their most prominent ... http://www.zemanta.com/blog/brave-new-world-of-on-demand-computing/