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Google’s Metaweb – Smartest Data Organization

Metaweb, a formerly San Francisco startup, now Google’s company (2010) helps smartest search engine to find and distinguish different words that may have different values like Paris may be Paris France or Paris Hilton. The complicated mechanics of metaweb uses semantic relationships between people and things from around the web, including websites, ebooks, information about movies, and businesses – all combined in open Freebase database maintained by Google. In other words, Metaweb maintains Freebase.

via Freebase.com – Metaweb (the company) has developed Metaweb (the database and API). Freebase (the open global structured knowledge base) is a high-profile public instantiation of the Metaweb technology. This manual documents general Metaweb services and APIs, and relies on Freebase for example data and applications. The services and APIs are applicable beyond Freebase, however, and you’ll find that this manual uses the name “Metaweb” far more than it does the name “Freebase”.

Favorite recipe, better view. I love Google.

Google with Recipe View helps you find recipes from across the web but now Google narrows down your search to view only recipes.

Wikipedia and Emergence – Happy Birthday!

The State of Wikipedia

From Wikipedia: In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, EMERGENCE is the way complex systemsmultiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. and patterns arise out of a

The early draft of Emergence book by Steven Johnson, the American Popular Science author, had subtitle: “Emergence: What the New Science Can Teach Us About Our Minds, Our Communities, and Ourselves.” changing it later to “Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.” The book was published in 2001, and so the Wikipedia project, a free web-based, collaborative online reference. Both are Ten-Year Old Babies this year!

Wikipedia Brand via visual storytelling

http://www.thestateofwikipedia.com/media/wiki/img/infographic-lg.jpg

The new generation of the Web: Semantic Web!

Translated from German to English – Börtecin Ege’s interpretation of the Semantic Web.

What is behind all this beautiful name? A whole new technology? A new generation of the Web? Yes, you guessed absolutely right, both!
State
As we all know, today’s information technologies are no longer sufficient to manage the ever growing and complex data sets, to process them in a refined form and save, not to mention the data link with each other. The result is usually a waste data, where information is stored only on an isolated form and are difficult to find again … That’s us even from the daily also known, you just have to search for any words on a search engine. Their fate is almost sealed the same every time, suddenly appear on the screen hundreds of thousands even millions of entries, which often have to do anything even with the concept, then you are looking for …
Origin of today’s technologies
Today’s technologies have been largely developed in the 70s. They were ultimately not meant to handle today’s complexity and huge information overload … must therefore now as soon as possible entirely new technologies, her … The current situation is the emergence of a variety of frameworks like Hibernate, which really only are there at various technologies that are not compatible, to connect …
Web as a global database
Semantic technologies are our only hope to bring order to the chaos and everything again to get a grip. The medium-term goal is the transformation of today’s Web into a global database of information by any means are isolated from each other but are linked to a sophisticated way! This can be achieved from today’s point of view of semantic technologies only by the deployment. Because they give us the opportunity to give the data to define a whole new format and in so to speak, “3D store and process it. The first practical applications are actually already since years, especially in the life sciences rather than completely successful: Many worry on Ontologies-based applications in this area for faster and better diagnoses than ever before.
Semantic Web Programming
Now the advent of semantic technologies to the Web is started. Fortunately, the number of open source projects in this area is increasing from year to year. The Semantic Web programming will help us make the Web more intelligent and easy to convert into a global database in which we not only find information very easily, but even gain from existing and new information. The Semantic Web programming introduces a new programming philosophy and is therefore not regarded as a conventional technology. Rather, it is a strategic technology that has already begun, in many areas of life to successfully place, from the bioinformatics, life sciences to satellite communication …

For by Semantic Web will be realized soon completely new information and web architectures.
Translated from German to English – Börtecin Ege’s interpretation of the Semantic Web.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches site for British gov

He invented a technology that has transformed the world into a more transparent and much more productive environment. in 2001 he’s published The Semantic Web. His recent work included launching British government site http://data.gov.uk/ that’s based on the Semantic Web and consists of many brilliant mashups, “the main product of collaboration brings structure to the meaningful content of Web pages“. At TED’s Sir is explaining the Semantic Web, and much more. Very interesting.