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 …

The 2nd International Topic Maps Users Conference in Norway is coming up in April – a good occasion to review the potential of Topic Maps to further the Semantic Turn in Information Technology. SWC’s Tassilo Pellegrini interviewed Graham Moore from Net …

Someone wondered why I was blogging so intensely about the KiWi Project Kick-off: Not only because it is an intriguing project but also, yes indeed, because the Semantic Web Company itself is part of the KiWi Project, and my blogging was not simply the …

Please forgive me that the key player is now getting the last mention in my little ‘KIWI Project Partners’ series: Salzburg Research has actually the biggest share of responsibility within KIWI, as they are home to the Project Office consisting of Seba …

Logica (formerly known as WM-Data) is the second KIWI-business partner, participating in the project management use case. Logica and their knowledge and project management activities were introcued by Søren Rieck, one of their consulting architects wh …