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HP Reveals Post-Acquisition Plans for Autonomy

Last summer, when HP gave up on smartphones to place a $10.3 billion bet on semantic-search company Autonomy, then-CEO Leo Apotheker's bold plan was to create a new kind of enterprise search-enabled content management. Today, under new CEO Meg Whitman, the company revealed some of the fruits of that acquisition, including support for the…

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2011 in Review

Russia's Top 5 Startups Rip Off U.S.'s

In America, 240 million people are wired...to the Internet. And in Russia, 60 million people are online. That's nearly half of Russia's population of 142,946,800. Russia is currently the largest Internet market in Europe, and its Internet population has been steadily growing year over year. The population of Internet users has just hit 42.8% of the…

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Data Services

New York Times Longitude: Linked Data + Location

Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It's a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some of which may graduate to become full-fledged New York Times products. An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests, it presents…

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Data Services

On Data Markets and Their Evolution

More than two years after President Obama's memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands of public authorities and organizations worldwide have embraced the main idea behind it. Opening up data and making them publicly available on the Web has been recognized as a key to fostering transparency and collaboration within public…

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When Consumer Apps Are Acquired by Enterprise Cos

In January of this year, mobile travel management app TripIt was acquired for up to $120 million by Concur, a company founded in 1993 that provides "integrated expense and travel management solutions." TripIt, founded in late 2006, was one of my favorite 'web 2.0' apps. At the end of 2007, ReadWriteWeb named it one of 10 Semantic Apps to…

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Google

Is Schema.org Really a Google Land Grab?

Last week the Web's three leading search companies - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! - announced a new structured data collaboration called Schema.org. It includes more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more. The stated aim of Schema.org is to "improve the display of…

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Search

LexisNexis Introduces Semantic Search

If you're old enough, you'll remember LexisNexis (especially the Nexis part) as a revelation - a way to search through tons of news articles, features, papers and more to research a topic or a person without having to wade through the endless green rows of "Readers' Guides." It has stayed relevant because of its focus - the Lexis part of the…

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2010 in Review

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010

Every year ReadWriteWeb selects the top 10 products or developments across a range of categories. We kick off the 2010 'Best Of' series with our selection of the top 10 Semantic Web products and implementations of the year. This year we've chosen 5 products by semantically charged startups and 5 implementations by large organizations. The startups…

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mobile

First Look at Aro for iPhone: Can This Semantic Software Replace Your Core Mobile Apps?

Aro Mobile, a mobile communications startup backed by Microsoft's Paul Allen, made waves back in October when it emerged after three years in stealth as a suite of interconnected applications for Android smartphones. Installed as a single download from the Android Market, Aro places icons on user's homescreens: Phone, Email, Browser, Calendar…

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NYT

Web Linking Gets Deeper with New Standard for Link Relations

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published a Request for Comment on a proposed standard for link relations across multiple web formats. From rel="stylesheet" to rel="bookmark," rel="payment," and rel="me," according the the consensus of the IETF community members, link relations are now first class citizens with a centralized…

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HP Reveals Post-Acquisition Plans for Autonomy

Russia's Top 5 Startups Rip Off U.S.'s

New York Times Longitude: Linked Data + Location

On Data Markets and Their Evolution

When Consumer Apps Are Acquired by Enterprise Cos

Is Schema.org Really a Google Land Grab?

LexisNexis Introduces Semantic Search

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010

First Look at Aro for iPhone: Can This Semantic Software Replace Your Core Mobile Apps?

Web Linking Gets Deeper with New Standard for Link Relations