Archive for March, 2010

Bueda increases the value of rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic analysis engine. Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to provide publishers with actionable information that can be used for content categorization, targeted advertising, content recommendation and search engine optimization. Via Bueda’s API, any UGC website can have access to the latest technology for tag disambiguation and cleanup with minimal integration hurdles.

Tags are increasingly used to organize user generated content. They give the users the freedom to tag their content with the words that make sense to them making it easier to find their own content. Unfortunately, different words are used for the same things and it is very common to find tags that are missing spaces, have typos, and are redundant or not informative. A publisher with tags of this sort is unable to connect content properly or target advertising effectively. Tags enriched by Bueda can provide not only a better overall user experience but can increase revenue generated from user content.

The Bueda API can transform noisy and redundant tags into back clean, normalized tags, with a breakdown of the semantic concepts represented in the tags. This means that your users still have the freedom of tags, and you still get the benefits of neatly categorized and curated content.

The result is happier users, a better user experience and more revenue.

The Bueda API is currently in private beta.

You can find all the info and even a demo at the Bueda website:  http://www.bueda.com

Dunnit! is a To Do list application, which lets people create lists of tasks and then tick them off as the tasks are completed.
The application looks like a game: It lets users win achievements the more they use this app and it lets them compete against their friends and colleagues to see who’s more productive. Twitter integration lets them boast to the wider world too.
Read more about it at http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/36229/Dunnit-an-iPhone-To-Do-list-app-with-game-like-achievements

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S-Match Open Source Released
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ANNOUNCING S-Match Open Source, the first release.

About S-Match
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S-Match is a semantic matching framework.

S-Match takes any two tree like structures (such as database schemas, classifications, lightweight ontologies) and returns a set of correspondences between those tree nodes which semantically correspond to one another.

S-Match contains implementations of the semantic matching, minimal semantic matching and structure preserving semantic matching algorithms.

S-Match applies as a solution in many fields, including:
* information integration,
* ontology evolution and alignment,
* peer-to-peer information sharing,
* digital libraries integration,
* web service composition,
* agent communication, and
* query answering on the web.

S-Match is extendable to host new algorithms.

Subscribe to S-Match low traffic mailing list or RSS news feed to receive further announcements.

Resources
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Homepage:

http://semanticmatching.org

Documentation:

http://semanticmatching.org/documentation.html

Download:

http://semanticmatching.org/download.html

Bug Tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/s-match/

Mailing Lists:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/s-match-announce

Forums:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-match/forums/

RSS News Feed:

http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=288592

The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has published Working Drafts of Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 and API for Media Resource 1.0. The former document defines the Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, a core vocabulary to describe media resources on the Web. It is defined based on a core set of properties which covers basic metadata to describe media resources. Further it defines syntactic and semantic level mappings between elements from existing formats. The ontology is supposed to foster the interoperability among various kinds of metadata formats currently used to describe media resources on the Web. The latter defines a client-side API to access metadata information related to media resources on the Web.

ViewChange.org is using the power of the latest Web technology to make videos, articles, blogs, and actions readily available to people working in global development. While watching high-impact video stories on the site, viewers can choose to dig deeper by exploring up-to-date details on which organizations are involved, links to related content, and lists of relevant actions they can take.

For example, imagine you are watching a short documentary about clean water issues in India. As the video plays, adjacent windows will dynamically generate links to actions and media directly related to each scene. These could include organizations involved in clean water and sanitation, action campaigns related to water issues, relevant videos from YouTube, articles from research organizations, and the latest updates from news services and blogs.

The site will automatically create these links using semantic Web tools. Rather than simply scanning for keywords, this new technology also analyzes context and meaning to find the most relevant results from all the latest information and links available. It will also employ the Linked Data model, which assigns unique identifier tags to specific “entities” and organizes data in ways that can be read and understood by other applications. This allows the site to easily differentiate whether the word “Sahara” is being used to refer to the desert in North Africa or a hotel-casino in Las Vegas, and to communicate about the correct topic with other websites that hold related information.

By tapping into the semantic Web, the Linked Data model, and partner APIs, ViewChange.org is taking the latest advances in online technology and harnessing them for social change.

LinkTV created the working model for ViewChange.org by fostering relationships with semantic technology innovators such as OpenCalais and Zemanta. They are also actively experimenting with the open APIs of sites like YouTube and Kiva.org.

Link TV’s long-term Web development partner Definition is responsible for building the platform and will utilize Freebase, Zemanta, OpenCalais, and other APIs help to provide an innovative customizable user experience.

In addition, ViewChange.org will feature an open API, inviting third-party sites and developers to create applications and pages fueled by our content. This API will feed into the Linked Data model. The code behind the platform will be made freely available.