Anyone with even a remote interest in the semantic space has likely experienced the same roller coaster I have regarding Powerset. When I first spoke with Barney Pell over a year ago, the semantic tech sector was an entirely different landscape. I was intrigued by my conversation with Barney and the short demo I saw [...] ...
As I approached the tent where the Women 2.0 conference was about to start, I was struck by the string of prayer flags along the back wall. That, as least, was what it looked like from a distance. Up close, I realized that the organizers had strung up the entries -dozens of plans sketched out [...] ...
The last thing I wanted to do yesterday morning was go to the Women 2.0 conference.I’d agreed months ago to host the opening fireside chat and judge the pitch contest in the afternoon. But as Saturday morning dawned, all I really wanted to do was catch up on the sleep deficit from two weeks of [...] ...
Those of us who are full - and sometimes egregious - participants in the social Web have quickly discovered that aggregation is vital in maintaining some sort of sanity. While there have been plenty of entrants in the aggregation space in recent months, the new Yoono add-on for Firefox is taking the sector in a [...] ...
Carefully and deliberately over the past two years, Clipblast! has laid the foundation for a cross-Internet video distribution platform. First order, Clipbast! indexed video across the Web, aggregating video content no matter where it lives. Then, at DEMOfall 07, the company introduced its API and widget strategy that enabled other sites to easily [...] ...