The "semantic Web" is hugely important to tomorrow's business. Do not underestimate its significance: It truly changes everything. Embrace it, or risk extinction. But what is it? And what does it mean ...

Depending on who you talk to, the Semantic Web is either a huge distraction or the future of the Internet. Of course, there's no reason it can't be both. Concentration on the Semantic Web to the ...

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web 's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their ...

The semantic web has been one of the hot buzz phrases of the last few years. The idea is that search engines are rubbish because they don't really understand the meaning of what users are searching ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

During the course of a day, the average person who works at a desk deals with torrents of information coming from many sources: e-mails, Web searches, calendars, notes, spreadsheets, documents, and ...

Once upon a time, search was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Most of us still couldn't live without it, but hardly an hour goes by that we aren't cursing the lousy results from our otherwise ...

The Semantic Web, the long-ballyhooed concept to make it easier to find pertinent information and link varying types of data on the Web, is finally closing in on critical mass, W3C (World Wide Web ...

Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today – expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous ...

Despite the recession, luggage retailer Ebags.com enjoyed phenomenal 2010 holiday sales — some 33% higher than the previous year. (The online retail sector as a whole reported a 15% gain this past ...