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Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem
British physicist Stephen Wolfram today officially launched his new, massively-hyped search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Now for the inevitable letdown; and for the hard questions more journalists should have been asking weeks ago. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Matt Pirog: The journalistic prowess of the Valleywag contributors never ceases to amaze me. This is a fantastic tool for the scientific... 9 Responses | Other threads
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Pedantic Web
Sad Web 2.0 Losers Ready for Web 3.0 (As Soon As They Figure Out What It Is)
Failed Internet mogul Alan Meckler is really excited about the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0! And who can blame him, since he pretty much failed at versions 1.0 and 2.0? Meckler, who has run a passel of third-rate Internet websites since the early '90s, when he was best-known for trade titles like CD-ROM Librarian, now calls his company WebMediaBrands. Laurel Touby's Mediabistro.com is part of his collection. The boa-bedecked editrix reports breathlessly on Twitter that her boss has called the Semantic Web "the next stage of the Internet." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Pope John Peeps II: the information in those documents will have to be turned into data that a machine can read and evaluate on... 1 Responses | Other threads
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web 3.0
Ashley Dupre nude pictures make semantic Web slightly less obscure
Larry Flynt is willing to pay Ashley Alexandra Dupré — the call girl who had something to do with what's-his-name from New York — $1 million to pose for Hustler. Imagine how much the Orlando Sentinel's website would have made from publishing Dupré's Girls Gone Wild photos back when Britney Spears hadn't yet made her cameo on CBS and Dupre still dominated the news cycle. With the right timing, it would have been bigger than Lindsay Lohan taking it of for New York magazine. But the Sentinel's loss can be your gain, "semantic Web" startups. The newspaper obviously blew it. The reason? More » -
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The "semantic graph" reads Wikipedia
WEB 2.0 SUMMIT — Twine, Powerset, and Freebase are all doing dense demonstrations about the "semantic Web" — basically, improved search. I'd swear I've heard all three startups say that their systems analyze Wikipedia to understand connections between terms, a phenomenon one calls the "semantic graph." The short version? These startups read Wikipedia so you don't have to. -
the future does not need us
Web 3.0, the first step towards computer takeover
People, have we not learned anything from moving pictures? Skynet, Omni Consumer Products, Cylons — heck, even the Borg? Do not entrust networks with intelligence. Things end poorly. Cybernetic killing machines aside, the semantic Web, otherwise known as Web 3.0, should still scare the bejeezus out of you. Radar Networks and Spock.com, two startups in the news, show us why we need to unplug Web 2.0 before it upgrades itself and no one can stop it. More »
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Comment by DaveMcClure500Hats: seriously: you're suggesting that Spock & Radar Networks are 'nefariously' making all your pr0n interests & drunk photos somehow more... more » | Other threads
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the interweb
The Future Internets That Never Happened
NICK DOUGLAS — "A new company is paving the way for a more automated Internet," shouts the New York Times. Oh god. New internets are like perpetual motion machines: they get "invented" all the time, but you'll never find a working model. Here are the most famous, including Cyberspace, the Semantic Web, and Bruce Sterling's Magical Spime World. More » -
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Five reasons no one will replace Google
"I've received 33,000+ hits and counting to this post," says the blogger who wrote "Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?" on Monday. His piece got blogged all over, promoted to the Digg front page, and fueled the starry-eyed bloggers searching for doom to herald for Google. (It was also just a troll.) Kudos to him, but he — and everyone who believed him — was wrong. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by evolvingtrends: I've just published a new article on how P2P AI Reasoning Engines will challenge Google just like how BitTorrent challenged... more » | Other threads
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