Music BBC's Semantic Music Project The BBC Music Beta project is an ongoing effort by the BBC to build semantically linked and annotated web pages about artists and singers whose songs are played on BBC radio stations. Within these pages, collections of data are enhanced and interconnected with semantic metadata, letting music fans explore connections between artists that they may… Play Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Who Is Syndicating Your Content? CopyGator Knows It's no secret, we here at ReadWriteWeb are fans of RSS. Still, we have to admit that the format has its benefits and its drawbacks. In a world of RSS feeds, the syndication of content is a foregone conclusion - for readers. But as we all know, any number of sites have cropped up that take RSS content, publish it to another page, and wrap that page… Rick Turoczy View comments
NYT Netflix Prize: Will the $1 Million be Won in 2009? We're starting a new series here on ReadWriteWeb about recommendation engines. We identified recommendations as one of 5 trends to watch at the start of 2008; and that's even more so at the beginning of 2009. We also have a page dedicated to recommendation technologies in our stock presentation entitled What's Next on the Web?. In this post we look… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews SuggestRSS: Super Simple New Feed Recommendations Let's say you like RSS feeds. Let's say you're looking for some more good ones to subscribe to so you don't miss good stuff. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, but this week New York based developer Jonathan Christopher built a nice simple new one. Give his app SuggestRSS just a few minutes of your time and it will give you some cool… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API? The most extreme developers may find themselves left out in the cold. Twitter watchers know that a large part of the service's use comes through its Application Programming Interface (API) and that's been a big part of what helped the young service grow. Now that the company has Britney Spears, CNN and Barack Obama among its ranks of users… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments