The "semantic Web" is hugely important to tomorrow's business. Do not underestimate its significance: It truly changes everything. Embrace it, or risk extinction. But what is it? And what does it mean ...

In the march toward creating the semantic web, web content management systems such as Drupal (news, site) and many proprietary vendors struggle with the goal of emitting structured information that ...

Depending on who you talk to, the Semantic Web is either a huge distraction or the future of the Internet. Of course, there's no reason it can't be both. Concentration on the Semantic Web to the ...

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The BBC’s website for the 2010 World Cup was notable for the raw amount of rich information that it contained. Every player on every team in every group had their own web page, and the ease with which ...

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web 's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their ...

Despite the recession, luggage retailer Ebags.com enjoyed phenomenal 2010 holiday sales — some 33% higher than the previous year. (The online retail sector as a whole reported a 15% gain this past ...

How do you describe a business? What about a person, or an intellectual work? There's an interesting little secret that people in IT likely know, but that doesn't always get to the C-Suite.

It might seem like a subtle difference, but the machine-readable nature of the semantic web is likely to have an effect on our exploitation of information that is at least as profound as its ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...