10 posts and columns on semantic

Jetpac Transports Friends’ Photos to the iPad for a Truly Personal Travel Magazine (Video)

in Social on December 9, 2011 at 12:09 pm PT

Jetpac is building an iPad app that’s part travel magazine, part photo-sharing platform. It’s either very creepy, or it’s the bright future of personalized media apps.
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"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown

in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts. Schweeet!

Federated Media Makes Another Buy: Foodbuzz

in News on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Federated Media Publishing, which recently bought a community platform aimed at parents, announced tonight that it was making another buy. This time, it is a food blog community site called Foodbuzz, as FM seeks to create large networks of niche content to better sell premium advertising. According to the site, it has exclusive deals to sell advertising for 4,400 independent food bloggers, making it a top food property.

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site

in Social on November 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Gravity today is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.

Federated Media Snaps Up BigTent

in News on November 2, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Federated Media, the San Francisco-based advertising and publishing network, has acquired BigTent, a platform hosting more than 15,000 communities, mostly made up of parenting groups, especially moms. Terms of the deal with BigTent, also located in San Francisco, were not disclosed. In an interview, FM CEO John Battelle said the move was to further strengthen its tools for both the advertisers and publishers it serves, especially to create better “content conversations.”

As Microsoft Warily Eyes Google Buying Spree, Will It Jump In or Play the Regulatory Card?

in News on December 22, 2009 at 4:57 am PT

With Google in the market for pretty much, well, everything, in the Web 2.0 space of late–using its fat stock price and copious cash reserves–it stands to reason that Microsoft would be in the same market too. But will the software giant enter the fray as a rival bidder to the search behemoth or will it seek battle on the regulatory battlefield? In other words, if you don’t bid, do you block?
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D7 Tech Demo: Siri

in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Many would-be augurs have been trying to pinpoint the moment the artificial intelligence overlord known as Skynet gets its start: Some may one day point to the launch of Siri. Siri is a virtual personal assistant, for your iPhone or computer, with a pedigree: It originated at the Stanford Research Institute and was spun out as an AI project financed by DARPA. Now, as an alternative to search, Siri is supposed to carry out tasks like finding your next outgoing flight or ordering a pizza by crawling the Web and conversing with the user, processing requests, responding and learning from the interaction. It will do this via a combination of technologies, including speech recognition, natural language processing and semantic Web search.
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The Entire D6 Demo of evri

in News on September 10, 2008 at 11:16 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column. In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference. Next up is evri, the semantic Web guide start-up, which is backed by billionaire techie Paul Allen and founded by former Amazon exec Neil Roseman.

Microsoft Reaffirms Lack of Commitment to Yahoo

in News on July 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm PT

Jerry Yang and Co. say Microsoft was never committed to a whole-company acquisition of Yahoo. But if that’s the case, why is it that Microsoft seems entirely committed to a whole-company acquisition of another search company–Powerset?