Analysis It's All Semantics: Open Data, Linked Data & The Semantic Web Yesterday we summarized some of the main developments in the Linked Data world over the past year. Linked Data is a W3C-backed movement that is all about connecting data sets across the Web. It can be viewed as a subset of the wider Semantic Web movement, which is about adding meaning to the Web. However, there is some confusion in the Semantic… Richard MacManus View comments
News Wolfram Alpha Admits Mistake: Mobile Site is Back; iPhone App Down from $50 to $1.99 Once upon a time, Wolfram Alpha tried to charge $50 for its iPhone app while, at the same time, offering a free iPhone-optimized mobile site. Then, the company shut down the mobile site of its "computational knowledge engine" altogether. Now, however, Wolfram is reversing this strategy and is not just bringing back a new and improved version of its… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Advertising Google Introduces Search Funnel, Ad Innovations Today Google introduced two new elements to its popular advertising system, a Search Funnel and something it is calling Ad Innovations. The company's VP of product management, Susan Wojcicki, described the Search Funnel as a "set of reports describing the Google.com search ad click and impression behavior leading up to a conversion." Curt Hopkins View comments
Google YouTube Migrates Videos to New Design Today, YouTube migrated its user videos over to a new design. The design was available before now, and has been in development for months, but today was the day all the videos got their Sunday go-to-meeting clothes on. In a January post, Julian Frumar, a YouTube user experience designer, commented on YouTube's blog that the old design could… Curt Hopkins View comments
Crowdsourcing New York Times Juices Up Its Document Viewer The New York Times' new Doc Viewer 2.0 is, depending on what you value, either a pasted-on ornament of no real use to a typical news consumer, or it's an open-source, crowd-sourcing game changer. With information-taming technologies like search engines already at a reader's fingertips, there is debatable value in the Doc Viewer's ability to… Curt Hopkins View comments