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Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW 2012 - Posted April 19, 2012
This year was the 5th version of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop co-located at the World Wide Web Conference going on in Lyon, France. At this workshop, seven issues caught m... [AllTwitter]

Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW 2012 - Posted April 19, 2012
This year was the 5th version of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop co-located at the World Wide Web Conference going on in Lyon, France. At this workshop, seven issues caught m... [semanticweb.com]

RDF Support in IBM's DB2 - Posted April 10, 2012
We caught up with Bernie Spang, IBM's Director, Strategy and Marketing, Database Software and Systems, to discuss the latest release of its enterprise data products DB2 and InfoSphere. Version 10 of both products have just been released. DB2 is used by thousands of organizations worldwide and comes in fl... [AllTwitter]

RDF Support in IBM's DB2 - Posted April 10, 2012
We caught up with Bernie Spang, IBM's Director, Strategy and Marketing, Database Software and Systems, to discuss the latest release of its enterprise data products DB2 and InfoSphere. Version 10 of both products have just been released. DB2 is used by thousands of organizations worldwide and comes in fl... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Web Jobs: IBM - Posted April 5, 2012
IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member - Semantic Analysis and Integration in Hawthorne, NY. According to the post, "The Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking Res... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Web Jobs: IBM - Posted April 5, 2012
IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member - Semantic Analysis and Integration in Hawthorne, NY. According to the post, "The Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking Res... [semanticweb.com]

Announcement of Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0 Submission - Posted April 3, 2012
In December 2011, the World Wide Web Consortium held "The Linked Enterprise Data Patterns workshop," and that workshop ended with unanimous agreement that "the W3C should create a Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation which defines a Linked Data Platform." In response to that call, SemanticWeb.com has joined experts from fellow... [semanticweb.com]

Linked Data: Moving Towards Consumption - Posted March 21, 2012
Earlier this month 16 out of 42 papers were accepted for the upcoming Linked Data on the Web (LDOW) 2012 Workshop in Lyon, France in April. What might be discerned from the tenor of the submissions is something of a shift in focus in the Linked Data space, according to workshop chair... [semanticweb.com]

Watson Suits Up For Wall Street Gig - Posted March 7, 2012
Watson's gone into banking: Citi is evaluating ways that IBM's Deep QA technology can help advance digital banking efforts, through analysis of customer needs and processing tons of up-to-the-minute financial, economic, product and client data, according to a ... [semanticweb.com]

The Future World Is A Semantic Tech World - Posted February 13, 2012
[caption id="attachment_26664" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image Courtesy: Flickr/substack"][/caption] A new report from the Institute for Global Futures, Global Futures Forecast 2012, lays out the top trends that it believes will shape the coming year. It's looking ahead to a future that it says may be characterized by complex trends,... [AllTwitter]

Digital Reasoning To Give Users New Tool For "Learning" Custom Data Sets - Posted January 30, 2012
Digital Reasoning, developers of the Synthesys platform for discovering the meaning in unstructured data at scale, has on the roadmap exposing to and packaging up for its customers ... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Web Jobs: Smarter Cities Technology Centre - Posted January 18, 2012
IBM's Smarter Cities Technology Centre (SCTC) is looking for a Researcher of Social Semantic Web in Mulhuddart, Ireland. The Centre "is accepting applications for full-time researchers from entry-level through principal investigators. ... [semanticweb.com]

Big Data For Lean Startups, Or, A Poor Man's Watson - Posted January 18, 2012
What do big companies have that most emerging businesses don't have to help them get value from Big Data? Well, to start with, there's lots of money and a ton of technology resources. Never fear. At the upcoming Semantic Tech & Business conference in Berlin, Christopher Testa... [semanticweb.com]

Google Purchases 217 IBM Patents - Posted January 5, 2012
Google has purchased over two hundred IBM patents including one patent for a semantic social network. Peter Pachal reports, "While the patents cover a variety of topics, one in particul... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [semanticweb.com]

New Paper: Toward a Basic Profile for Linked Data - Posted December 9, 2011
IBM recently published a technical paper entitled Toward a Basic Profile for Linked Data. In the introduction, ... [10,000 Words]

Semantic Web Enterprise Deployments: Get Exec Support, And Set Reasonable Expectations - Posted November 14, 2011
When it comes to Semantic Web technologies, there are some business-technology leaders that see value in moving rapidly forward. For some, it's critical if they're to live up to their image as technologically advanced enterprises. For others, it's a matter of hearing that competitors are doing it, so they need to... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Web Jobs: IBM - Posted November 8, 2011
IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member - Semantic Analysis and Integration in Hawthorne, NY. According to the post, "The Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking Research Staff Memb... [semanticweb.com]

CMOs: We're Not Prepared For Social Media - Posted October 11, 2011
New IBM research drawing from 1,700 chief marketing officers from 64 countries and 19 industries shows that while top marketing execs are well aware of the major shift taking place via social media, a majori... [PRNewser]

IBM, MTV Use Tech to Share Events With a Global Audience - Posted October 5, 2011
In-person attendees are clearly not the only ones experiencing live events th... [PRNewser]

IBM's Iwata Named Arthur Page Chair - Posted September 12, 2011
IBM's SVP of marketing and communications Jon Iwata has been elected chairman of the Arthur Page Society, effective January 1, 2012. Iwata is a trustee for th... [PRNewser]

Bob DuCharme Shows Us How to Improve Taxonomy Management with SKOS - Posted May 16, 2011
A new paper has been release by IBM entitled "Improve your taxonomy management using the W3C SKOS standard." The paper is written by Bob DuCharme, a solutions a... [AllTwitter]

Great Jobs in Semantics - Posted March 23, 2011
IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member for their Semantic Analysis and Integration Department in Hawthorne, NY "to work on research and applications of intel... [semanticweb.com]

F-H Makes List of Top Companies for Female Executives - Posted March 16, 2011
Fleishman-Hillard has made the National Association for Female Executives' (NAFE) list of "... [PRNewser]

Hey Watson, Toronto's In Canada! - Posted February 15, 2011
Probably the most surprising moment on tonight's edition of Jeopardy! featuring Watson was the final round. The smartest computer on the planet answered, "What is Toronto?" to a statement about the U.S. city whose largest airports were named after World War II heroes and battles. How'd he (it,... [AllTwitter]

Watson Ties For First Place in First Round of Jeopardy! Challenge - Posted February 14, 2011
The team at IBM responsible for Watson must be feeling pretty good about its work right now - and rightly so. On the first day of the Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge, Watson tied fo... [semanticweb.com]

Obama Launches Startup Non-Profit - Posted January 31, 2011
In a bid to encourage U.S. entrepreneurs, the White House launched the Startup America Partnership, a non-profit campaign to encourage the development of new businesses. With backing from Fa... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

IBM Acquires Unica Corporation - Posted October 6, 2010
Today IBM announced the acquisition of Unica, a ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

IBM's European Extreme Blue Expo - Siliconrepublic.com - Posted September 21, 2010
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IBM Poised to Become Bigger Than Facebook? - NBC Bay Area - Posted September 20, 2010
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IBM Dublin Lab working on semantic web project for BBC - Siliconrepublic.com - Posted September 20, 2010
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BP Falls Off List of Best Global Brands - Posted September 16, 2010
To no one's surprise, BP has fallen off the list of Interbrand's ... [PRNewser]

'Swisscom call centres deploy IBM OmniFind technology' - Trading Markets (press release) - Posted August 11, 2010
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Atigeo: Interview with Chief Scientist Dr. Oliver "Olly" Downs - Posted June 17, 2010
— TONY SHAW, OLIVER (OLLY) DOWNS Tony Shaw: Hi Olly, so to get us started, could you give me a high-level overview of what Atigeo does? Olly Downs: Absolutely. Atigeo’s platform, xPatterns, enables enterprises to derive insights from large, disparate sources of unstructured data. In doing so, we’ve taken two approaches toward how our... [semanticweb.com]

Could Google Become the Semantic Web? - Posted February 21, 2010
"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little. A number of experts and forward thinking companies do care though,... [semanticweb.com]

IBM Wants to Patent Semantic Web Tag Clouds - Domain Name Wire (blog) - Posted February 4, 2010
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BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm Joins IBM PR - Posted December 14, 2009
Veteran BusinessWeek senior writer Steve Hamm will now be doing PR for a company he used to cover: IBM. Hamm announced today, via blog post and ... [PRNewser]

RuleML Conference to feature RIF - Posted September 12, 2009
The new W3C Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) standard will be featured at RuleML 2009 (see http://2009.ruleml.org), co-located with the Business Rules Forum in November 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. There will be a tutorial about RIF by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG/IBM, co-chair of the RIF WG) and a... [semanticweb.com]

Metatomix Unveils Version 6.0 of its Semantic Platform - Posted June 15, 2009
Version 6.0 Boasts Ease-of-Use, Time Savings and Provides Customers with the Ability to Discover and Publish Key Insights Using Semantic Technology Dedham, Mass., June 15, 2009 – Metatomix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic solutions to justice and public safety, financial services, manufacturing and life sciences organizations, today announced the availability of... [semanticweb.com]

Layoff At Forbes - Posted April 1, 2009
Forbes is going through a second round of layoffs. MediaMemo reports that roughly 50 employees will lose their jobs in the editorial, human resources, audience development and product management departments. Forbes... [MediaJobsDaily]

IBM Launches Groundbreaking Semantic Health Record System for South China's Largest Hospital - CNNMoney.com - Posted February 26, 2009
IBM today announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare information sharing and analytics technologies at the Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which combines the strengths of TCM and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). The system incorporates IBM's advanced semantics technology which allows it to understand and analyze... [semanticweb.com]

Social Tagging and the Enterprise: Does Tagging Work at Work? - Posted January 13, 2009
Executive Summary As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. Social tagging allows users to employ their own language to organize and retrieve content, and encourages social collaboration between peers by making those tags visible... [semanticweb.com]

Entity Extraction and the Semantic Web - Posted January 12, 2009
Entity Extraction is the process of automatically extracting document metadata from unstructured text documents.  Extracting key entities such as person names, locations, dates, specialized terms and product terminology from free-form text can empower organizations to not only improve keyword search but also open the door to semantic search, faceted search and... [semanticweb.com]

Enterprise 3.0: Semweb Commercialization Options - Posted January 16, 2008
Back when I was an industry analyst (VP, E-Business Strategies at the META Group, since acquired by Gartner), I often had to critique emerging markets.  Unlike venture capitalists, industry analysts are privy to product roadmaps from publicly-traded companies, including the industry giants (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM).  And unlike i-bankers, they are... [semanticweb.com]

Trade Round-Up: August 22, 2007 - Posted August 22, 2007
Variety's TV insider Brian Lowry breaks down Star Jones' return to television, reviewing her new Court TV talk show. Lowry gives Jones a lashing, writing that her new star vehicle is "utterly off-putting" and reminds viewers why Oprah Winfrey's skills aren't easily cloned, sayi... [FishbowlLA]