Earlier this month, my colleague Marion Fugléwicz-Bren talked about the current state of semantic technologies in the public relations business in an interview with Markus Pirchner, who runs a Vienna-based company (future.bytes) focusing on online PR …

It was the result of hard work and dedication: Early in the wee hours, precisely at 3:53 am, Sören Auer from AKSW (Leipzig University) announced the release of a new version of Triplify, the web application plugin that exposes structured data from rel …

I’ve just found out that the live blogging marathon from the KiWi kick-off meeting has been deemed a highlight on CORDIS’ website. CORDIS is the European Union’s Community Research and Development Information Service who – among many other things – als …

Good news: As of today, we have a mirror of the Sweet Tools collection running on our website! You have probably come across Mike Bergman’s Sweet Tools collection before: With Sweet Tools, Mike aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to date list of semant …

From the very beginning I was wondering, what Reuters is going to do with all that data generated by OpenCalais. So I took a moment and browsed through the Privacy Statement (formerly their Terms Of Use), stepping over an enlightning paragraph: We may …

Source: Wikipedia This is great news! In February, I wrote for the first time about the Zemanta browser plug-in prototype which was supposed to allow you to enhance your blog’s content by automatically suggesting links (e.g. to Wikipedia or news pages) …

I have just uploaded a whole batch of Emergency Exit: Semantic Web logos to Flickr and made them available under a Creative Commons licence, hoping that people are going to use them to spread the gospel of the Semantic Web: We have a dream – tear down …

Why don’t we think of coalition negotiations in a new dress: Maybe these are the topics we should rather discuss in our governments – all throughout Europe… The Brazilian government has expressed its support of free culture, free software, creati …

The challenge at this year´s I-Semantics is not only going to award a MacBook Air and other nice prizes (sponsored by OpenLink Software and punkt. netServices; a 3rd sponsor is still needed) but is also going to help to overcome the chicken-and-egg di …

An interview with Herbert Hrachovec, conducted by SWC’s own Marion Fugléwicz-Bren, drew my attention to an article by Hrachovec in which he explored what he calls the “irreconcilable similarities” between man and semantic machines: Treating certain sy …