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Expert Schema.org Panel Finalized for #SemTechBiz San Francisco Program - Posted 4 days, 16 hours ago
Q: What do Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, the New York Times, and The Walt Disney Company have in common? A: schema.org On June 2, 2011, schema.org was launched with little fanfare, but it quickly received a lot of attention. Now, almost exactly one year later, we have assembled a ... [AllTwitter]

Expert Schema.org Panel Finalized for #SemTechBiz San Francisco Program - Posted 4 days, 16 hours ago
Q: What do Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, the New York Times, and The Walt Disney Company have in common? A: schema.org On June 2, 2011, schema.org was launched with little fanfare, but it quickly received a lot of attention. Now, almost exactly one year later, we have assembled a ... [semanticweb.com]

Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow: If You Buy Facebook Stock, You're In For The Long Haul - Posted May 18, 2012
Social enterprise software giant Buddy Media... [AllFacebook]

All That For 23 Cents? Facebook IPO Starts Off Strong, Sputters Late On First Trading Day - Posted May 18, 2012
$0.23: That was the share-price gain for perhaps the most-hyped ... [AllFacebook]

Yahoo Interim CEO Explores Settlement In Patent-Infringement Suit; Facebook Seeks Dismissal - Posted May 17, 2012
Will a new chief executive officer bring new hopes for a settlement in the ... [AllFacebook]

Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [semanticweb.com]

Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [AllTwitter]

With Thompson Gone, Yahoo Needs Stability - Posted May 14, 2012
So Scott Thompson is out, adding to the growing list of CEOs who simply couldn't hang o... [PRNewser]

Facebook IPO Expected Friday | New Jersey City Bans Texting and Walking | Yahoo Interim CEO Oversaw Myspace Acquisition - Posted May 14, 2012
 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Lessons Learned Via Yahoo! CEO: Always Have an Accurate Resume - Posted May 9, 2012
Always tell the truth. In life, in job searching, in everything. By now you may have heard that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson allegedly beefed up his resume with both a computer science degree and accounting degree even though he graduated... [MediaJobsDaily]

Yahoo Taking Baby Steps to Address Activist Hedge Fund Eruption - Posted May 8, 2012
Patti Hart, a Yahoo board director who helped with the decision to hire CEO Scott Thompson, will announce today that she won't seek re-election following the eruption over Thompson's resum shenanigans. The company will also create a three-person committee that will look deeper into the hiring process. The trouble s... [PRNewser]

Yahoo's CEO Still Has a Job. For Now. - Posted May 7, 2012
Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson still has a job but Third Point, the activist hedge fund investor that had demanded his ouster for educational inaccuracies on his resum , isn't letting up. Now they want to take a look at the paperwork that went into the vetting process. Yahoo hasn't responded, but Third... [PRNewser]

Activist Hedge Fund Wants Yahoo CEO to Leave By Monday - Posted May 4, 2012
After first accusing Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of lying about his educational record, the activist hedge fund investor Third Point is now demanding that the CEO step down by Monday. Thompson's claim was that he held a bachelor's degree in bo... [PRNewser]

Yahoo: 16 More Patents 'May Be Relevant' To Facebook Lawsuit - Posted May 4, 2012
The fifth amendment... [AllFacebook]

Chomp Is Gone From Android | Tumblr President Leaves | Rise Of Social Apps - Posted April 30, 2012
 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Video Views Drop 8 Percent In March - Posted April 27, 2012
Fewer people now log time watching videos on Facebook compared with this time last y... [AllFacebook]

Yahoo Adds Two Patents To Facebook Suit - Posted April 27, 2012
The latest volley in the unpopular... [AllFacebook]

Semantic Commerce: Structuring Your Retail Website for the Next Generation Web - Posted April 27, 2012
Are you wondering why your product pages don't stand out in search results like those from Amazon (shown below) or other competing e-commerce websites? These expanded results are commonly known as Rich Snippets (as named by Google) and are the result of having your HTML structured correctly with semantic markup.... [semanticweb.com]

Catching Up With Yandex: What Russia's Leading Search Engine Has To Say About Schema.org - Posted April 25, 2012
Update: Yandex today (April 26th) reported that net income in the first three months of 2012 rose 53 percent from the same period last year to 1.26 billion rubles ($43 million) as text-based advertising revenue rose, according to ... [semanticweb.com]

Catching Up With Yandex: What Russia's Leading Search Engine Has To Say About Schema.org - Posted April 25, 2012
In November Russian search engine Yandex joined Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! to collaborate on schema.org. The Semantic Web Blog recently caught up by email with Alexander Shubin, Yandex product... [AllTwitter]

Facebook and Microsoft's AOL Patents | YouTube and Twitter's New Ads - Posted April 24, 2012
 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Acquires 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft - Posted April 23, 2012
Facebook reached an agreement with Microsoft to acquire about 650 of the 925 or so patents and patent applications the software giant a... [AllFacebook]

OpenMenu Serves Up Structured Data Standards For the Restaurant Industry - Posted April 9, 2012
What's on the markup menu for the restaurant industry? Among the schema.org tags for marking up web pages is one for restaurants, which includes item properties for priceRange, servesCuisine, place, and menu, among others. Restaurants that use the markup language to structure their data are promi... [AllTwitter]

OpenMenu Serves Up Structured Data Standards For the Restaurant Industry - Posted April 9, 2012
What's on the markup menu for the restaurant industry? Among the schema.org tags for marking up web pages is one for restaurants, which includes item properties for priceRange, servesCuisine, place, and menu, among others. Restaurants that use the markup language to structure their data are promi... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo's Chief Product Officer Resigns - Posted April 6, 2012
For Yahoo, the departures keep coming. Blake Irving, who had come to Yahoo under its former CEO Carol Bartz, is stepping down. This comes mere days after the company gave ... [FishbowlNY]

Facebook Versus Yahoo | Instagram for Android | Twitter's European Jobs - Posted April 4, 2012
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Welcome to the Morning Social Media Newsfeed! Here, we... [SocialTimes.com]

VEVO Begins Syndicating Content To Yahoo! Music - Posted March 22, 2012
Yahoo has seen tremendous growth in video recently, surpassing VEVO in last month's comScore Online video Rankings to become the second most-viewed video property in the U.S. with over 60 million unique viewers. On the tails of that announcement, a new VEVO-Yahoo announcement has hit the web--you can now watch... [SocialTimes.com]

Smart Ad Sophistication Lacking in News Industry, To Its Peril - Posted March 22, 2012
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2012 report was just published, and among the findings is that efforts by most top news sites to monetize the web in their own right are still limited. Few news companies, it reports, "have made much progress... [semanticweb.com]

Yammer CEO Offers $25K to Disgruntled Yahoo Employees - Posted March 19, 2012
Yahoo, in a move that will be referenced as a 'brand disaster', has decided to sue Facebook for infringing on 10 patents related to various social networking and advertising technologies -- technologies that are seen as open ideas by most of the web community. The backlash has been intense, and... [SocialTimes.com]

Time to Get On With Schema.Org? - Posted March 19, 2012
Need another reason for bringing semantic smarts to your web site? Maybe you can find it in a post at Search Engine Land, which includes a piece of a podcast from an SXSW session, and a transcription of it, featuring Google's head of webspam team Matt Cutts (over ... [semanticweb.com]

At Facebook The Buzz Is About Mobile Priorities, Brand Timelines, And New Advertising Options - Posted February 29, 2012
The Open Graph protocol continues to progress: Earlier this week Facebook's Director of Developer Relations Douglas Purdy talked about its intersection with the mobile web. According to ... [AllTwitter]

At Facebook The Buzz Is About Mobile Priorities, Brand Timelines, And New Advertising Options - Posted February 29, 2012
The Open Graph protocol continues to progress: Earlier this week Facebook's Director of Developer Relations Douglas Purdy talked about its intersection with the mobile web. According to ... [semanticweb.com]

Wikimeta Project's Evolution Includes Commercial Ambitions and Focus On Text-Mining, Semantic Annotation Robustness - Posted February 6, 2012
?Wikimeta, the semantic tagging and annotation architecture for incorporating semantic knowledge within documents, websites, content management systems, blogs and applications, this month is incorporating itself as a company called Wikimeta Technologies. Wikimeta, which has a heritage linked with the NLGbAse project, last year was provided as its own web service. ... [semanticweb.com]

Revolving Door: Le HuffPo, NY Times' Abramson to Debut at Davos, NBC Publishing eBooks, and More - Posted January 26, 2012
Le Huffington Post made its debut on Monday in France with Anne Sinclair as editorial director. Sinclair, a former TV anchor, is the wife of infamous former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, aka DSK. At the pre... [PRNewser]

Parse.ly Brings A Dash of Semantics To Online Publishers - Posted January 24, 2012
Online publishers and other content providers have a new analytics tool to help them understand what their readers care about and use that information to better connect them to their sites' relevant and compelling content. Launching today is Dash, based on the predictive content analytics platform ... [semanticweb.com]

Corporate Execs in the Hot Seat, Getting Burned - Posted January 23, 2012
[caption id="attachment_32960" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Photo: Pier Paolo Cito/AP"][/caption] Smells like bacon? Oh, that's just the aroma of corporate leaders getting burned by bad press, crisis situations, and business downturns. It's not anything new necessarily, but three's a trend so why not take a close... [PRNewser]

Yahoo's New CEO Could Use a Good Comms Team - Posted January 5, 2012
  The latest news from Yahoo is its new CEO, former PayPal president Scott Thompson. The company's last CEO, Carol Bartz, didn't work out so well. And n... [PRNewser]

Yahoo Partner in Asia Hires D.C. Lobbying Firm - Posted December 29, 2011
Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce company that is partially owned by Yahoo, has hired Washington D.C. lobbying firm Duberstein Group, a step that many believe is the set-up to purchase Yahoo. Yahoo owns 40 percent of Alibaba. That relationsh... [PRNewser]

Yahoo! Makes Content Analysis Tools Openly Available - Posted December 23, 2011
Yahoo! has opened up their content analysis technology to web developers. According to ... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook's Timeline Launches - Posted December 15, 2011
Facebook today posted that users now officially can upgrade their profiles to its Facebook Timeline by heading here. Timeline, as Mark Zuckerberg described in September, is ... [semanticweb.com]

2011 Top Stories On Twitter More Global Than Us-Centric Bing And Yahoo Search - Posted December 7, 2011
The top stories in 2011 on search and social don't quite match up. Twitter's top news stories of the past year were more global in nature than either Yahoo or Bing search, and tended to favor more international political news than either... [AllTwitter]

BREAKING: Schema.org announces intent to support RDFa Lite! - Posted November 11, 2011
Last month, we reported on the new RDFa 1.1 Lite proposal by Ben Adida. In our recent podcast... [AllTwitter]

Searches Powered by Microsoft Bing Increasing at an Impressive Rate [Infographic] - Posted November 11, 2011
Without a doubt Google owns a majority of U.S. search traffic on the Internet. But, according to Experian's Hitwise report Microsoft's Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google's control over search traffic. With that said, if your current SEO strategy has... [SocialTimes.com]

Russian Search Engine Yandex to Collaborate on schema.org - Posted November 2, 2011
Yandex, Russia's leading search engine has announced that it is joining forces with Google, Bing, and Yahoo! to collaborate on schema.org. One article reports, "Now the pages tagged with Schema.org tags will be pick... [semanticweb.com]

Google Propeller & Yahoo! Livestand News Aggregation Apps on Their Way? - Posted October 31, 2011
[caption id="attachment_82644" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Yahoo! Livestand for iPad."][/caption]Google's rumored iPad mobile aggregation app has been discussed since September while ... [SocialTimes.com]

Don't Expect A Google-Twitter Reconciliation Any Time Soon - Posted October 18, 2011
Google's Realtime Twitter search results went offline in July 2011, and, according to Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo, we shouldn't expect the two companies to come to an agreement to renew the service any time soon. Google and Twitter partnered ... [AllTwitter]

The Semantic Link - Episode 11, October 2011 - Posted October 17, 2011
On Friday, October 14, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the... [semanticweb.com]

News Corp. Weighing a Yahoo Bid - Posted October 5, 2011
The New York Times reports today that News Corporation has emerged as one of several major players weighing bids to acquire Yahoo. The other companies being mentioned are Silver Lake Partners, Microsoft and Alibaba, a Chinese Internet venture... [FishbowlNY]

Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? - Posted October 3, 2011
Facebook, right? It's always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of... [SocialTimes.com]

Will the Yahoo!/ABC News Partnership Change Your Media Strategy? - Posted October 3, 2011
ABC News brought out the big guns this morning -- Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, ... [PRNewser]

Morgan Spurlock Seeks Members for the 'Failure Club' - Posted September 28, 2011
Morgan Spurlock is launching a new documentary-style Web series for Yahoo and he's using the Web to find cast members. The new program, "Failure Club," will follow ordinary people a... [PRNewser]

Schema.org Workshop - A Path Forward - Posted September 22, 2011
[caption id="attachment_23388" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="schema.org Leadership Panel; L-to-R: Michael O'Connor (Microsoft), John Giannandrea (Google), Charlie Jiang (Microsoft), Kavi Goel (Google), R.V. Guha (Google), Steve MacBeth (Microsoft), Gaurav Mishra (Yahoo), Peter Mika (Yahoo) "]... [semanticweb.com]

Bartz Unleashes the Fury When Talking About How She Was Fired - Posted September 8, 2011
[caption id="attachment_26917" align="alignright" width="262" caption="Photo: Bloomberg"][/caption] Remember what we said yesterday about not burning any bridges when an employee is fired? Well I guess since she was fired over the phon... [PRNewser]

Yahoo Chairman Fired CEO Carol Bartz Over the Phone - Posted September 7, 2011
Yahoo issued a statement late Thursday confirming its removal of Carol Bartz after the news was first reported by blog AllThingsD. The blog reported that Bartz had sent an email to her former staff at Yahoo. She wrote that the ... [SocialTimes.com]

How Not To Fire A CEO - Posted September 7, 2011
Yahoo unceremoniously dismissed its embattled CEO Carol Bartz yesterday by phone. Anyone who has followed Yahoo (or simply read the business ... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: 'Vanity Fair's List; the 'Rookie' Launch; Rev. Al Sharpton, and More - Posted September 1, 2011
As predicted by The OutCast Agency's TJ Snyder, the Vanity Fair annual ... [PRNewser]

RDFa Fading Away in EPUB3 Standard - Posted August 22, 2011
To follow up our story last week about the upcoming EPUB3 standard, for which International Digital Publishing Forum membership comments were due in by today, it appears that the updates "are moving the spec even further from any apparent support/use of RDFa." That's according to ... [semanticweb.com]

The "Small World Experiment": Yahoo and Facebook Help Research Six Degrees of Separation - Posted August 19, 2011
They are practically brothers; Facebook and Yahoo join forces to test the "six degree of separation" theory, and you can participate. In 1929 a Hungarian writer, Frigyes Karinthy imagined that the world would one day become so small that every person on the planet would be six steps away from every other... [SocialTimes.com]

Bing Brings It On (RDFa, That Is) - Posted July 21, 2011
The Twittersphere is buzzing about the Semantic Web at last grabbing onto the hearts and minds of the whole web community. It started off with a tweet from Juan Sequeda - a contributor to The Semantic Web Blog and a well-known figure in our area - that reads:         A follow-up message explains: ... [semanticweb.com]

Pepsi Using Foursquare on Worldwide Social Media Campaign - Posted July 13, 2011
Pepsi is using a Foursquare badge on a worldwide campaign as a very important part of the company's "Summer Time is Pepsi Time" social media and TV campaign. According to Marketing Daily, the Foursqu... [SocialTimes.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 7, June 2011 - Posted June 20, 2011
On Monday, June 20, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the se... [semanticweb.com]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [AllTwitter]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [semanticweb.com]

Google, Yahoo! and Bing Announce Schema.org - Posted June 2, 2011
[Revised and re-posted at 4:03pm EST] In a collaborative effort reminiscent of sitemaps.org, Google, Yahoo! and Bing have announced the launch of schema.org. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this a... [AllTwitter]

Yahoo Hires Rob Barrett as Head of News and Finance - Posted May 9, 2011
Yahoo has hired longtime Internet executive Robertson Barrett to run its Yahoo News and Finance sites, Kara Swisher ... [FishbowlNY]

A "Delicious" Deal for YouTube's Founders - Posted April 27, 2011
Yahoo! promised in December that it would try to find a buyer for online bookmarking service ... [SocialTimes.com]

Yahoo! News Tops Most Visited News Websites - Posted April 21, 2011
FishbowlNY recently told you about Mail Online passing The Huffington Post as the most visited newspaper website, and now Poynter has the top U.S. news sites listed. The Yahoo! N... [FishbowlNY]

Exploring the Semantics of Yahoo Search Direct - Posted April 11, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo debuted a beta version of its Search Direct technology, which was seen as a competitor to Google Instant in that it shows search options as users begin typing in a query. There were also questions raised among those in the industry about h... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Image Search: Next Up For a Major Search Engine? - Posted March 23, 2011
We've seen the big three players in the search engine space honing their semantic edge, and we may soon see one of them deploying semantic technology to sharpen image searches, too. nachofoto says it is in discussions with one of the giants (which it declines to name for now) that could... [semanticweb.com]

Guest Post: Another Way to Look at the Multicultural Audience - Posted March 21, 2011
[caption id="attachment_17689" align="alignleft" width="338" caption="A photo from LateBoots.com's coverage of after-hours spot Avenue in NYC."][/caption] The latest Census information, pop culture, and everyday o... [PRNewser]

Yahoo! Finance Eyes Breakout Video Hit - Posted March 16, 2011
Yahoo! Finance will break in a brand-new New York studio with new original Web show Breakout, which will debut Monday, March 21, hosted by ... [AppNewser]

RDFa is Sweeping the Web - Posted February 23, 2011
A new article by Peter Mika looks at the growing reach of RDFa and microformats on the web. The ar... [AllTwitter]

Yahoo! Movies Settles In for Oscars - Posted February 22, 2011
Yahoo! Movies has its popcorn ready for Sunday's 83rd Annual Academy Awards, with all of its Oscars content sponsored by Chrysler. Among Oscars-related initiatives: original video program ... [AppNewser]

MarketDash: Yahoo! Finance for iPhone Souped Up for iPad - Posted February 22, 2011
Yahoo! adapted its Yahoo! Finance iPhone app for the iPad, releasing MarketDash, which syncs across the two previously mentioned Apple platforms, as well as Android, maintaining any changes made by users, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Work It | !!! | No Comment Please - Posted February 15, 2011
FishbowlDC: Nigel Barker is going to discuss his book on Thursday at Eden's Green Room. He will also reportedly be answering questions about how he can possibly stand working with Tyra Banks... [FishbowlNY]

Yahoo! Launches Daily Celebrity/Entertainment Show omg! NOW - Posted February 15, 2011
omg! NOW, the first daily celebrity and entertainment news program from Yahoo!, is off to a rousing start, with items on Grammy Award winner and ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Chris Cillizza's The Fast Fix Gives The Washington Post, Yahoo! a Quick Fix - Posted January 31, 2011
The Washington Post head of video editorial Steven King told Beet.TV the newspaper and Yahoo! hav... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz Reminisces During Captains of Industry Talk at 92nd Street Y - Posted December 20, 2010
The Captains of Industry lecture series at the 92nd Street Y welcomed Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Sadness Surrounds Delicious Demise - Posted December 17, 2010
News broke yesterday through a leaked slide that Yahoo is making plans to shut down bookmarking site ... [PRNewser]

Yahoo!, Toyota, Reveille: omg! WHO KNEW? - Posted December 16, 2010
WHO KNEW? Yahoo!, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., and Reveille knew, which is why they launched a revamped version of the original Web series on omg!. The series is a weekly roundup of celebrity families and t... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Carol Bartz's Internal Memo Addressing Yahoo Layoffs - Posted December 15, 2010
[caption id="attachment_11184" align="alignright" width="166" caption="Yahoo's Carol Bartz"][/caption] ... [PRNewser]

Yahoo! Partners with Twitter for a More Social Experience - Posted November 16, 2010
Yahoo! made an announcement today that will see Twitter integration across a large portion of its web properties. This means that Yahoo! users can more easily send Tweets and interact with their followers without having to leave Yahoo!. The majorit... [AllTwitter]

Got a Year? Yahoo! Seeks Contract Managing Editor - Posted November 4, 2010
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Roll Call: Changes at Porter Novelli, Weber Shandwick, Walt Disney, and More - Posted October 29, 2010
Porter Novelli has restructured its global healthcare practice. Barbara DeBuono, the firm's chief medical officer, will lead the practice as global director of health and social marketing. And there are four new hires in New York and London: Susan Hayes returns to the firm to serve as partner, managing the Novartis... [PRNewser]

Jay-Z Unveiling His Book One Page at a Time - Posted October 21, 2010
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Yahoo! Snags Former Talking Points Memo Blogger Zachary Roth for The Upshot - Posted October 13, 2010
Former Talking Points Memo lead investigative blogger Zachary Roth joined Yahoo! as a senior national aff... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

NUI web researcher shapes the future of semantic search - Siliconrepublic.com - Posted October 13, 2010
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OutCast Communications Rebrands as The OutCast Agency - Posted October 8, 2010
OutCast Communications has rebranded as The OutCast Agency... [PRNewser]

Former Yahoo! Media Head James Pitaro Is Going to Disney World - Posted October 4, 2010
Yahoo! vice president and head of media James Pitaro (pictured) is going to Disney World, joining ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Washington Post, Yahoo! News to Provide Political Followers with The Fast Fix - Posted September 29, 2010
The Washington Post teamed up with Yahoo! News on daily video series ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Outgoing Slate Writer: "People Rarely Leave" - Posted September 23, 2010
After eight years, Slate writer Daniel Gross has decided to try a new venture as a columnist for Yahoo Finance. But as he departed, he wrote quite the exit post. It's not odd in that h... [MediaJobsDaily]

Toshiba HDTV Models Are Connected to Yahoo! Connected TV - Posted September 15, 2010
Yahoo! Connected TV is now available on several Toshiba HDTV models ranging from 46-55 inches, including its WX800 Cinema Series 3D LED, the Internet giant and the consumer-electronics company announced Wednesday. More than 65 widgets from Yahoo! Connected TV will enable one-click access to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Pandora, eBay, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Bridging the gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW - Posted August 17, 2010
Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). I know that this is a strong statement, but I am confident that it will happen. Mainstream is defined in Wikipedia as “the common current of... [semanticweb.com]

Healthline Networks Names David Kopp Senior Vice President, Network ... - NewsBlaze - Posted May 18, 2010
Healthline Networks Names David Kopp Senior Vice President, Network ...NewsBlaze "I am excited to join Healthline because I believe our unique semantic technology gives tremendous advantage to our partners like Yahoo and Aetna," said ...... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo! Shine EIC: Women Want More 1:1 Conversation Online - Posted May 12, 2010
--JENNIFER PULLINGER When it comes to the Web, Brandon Holley knows what women want. As editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Shine, she focuses on building community into content and k... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

A Giant Whooshing Sound - Posted April 21, 2010
Did you hear that sound this week? The giant whooshing sound? There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Semantic Web academics, implementors and enthusiasts sighed in unison and their critics were silenced. I believe something wonderful has happened. With apologies to Mr. Lucas, I don't think that... [semanticweb.com]

Interview with Nicholas Cox - Posted April 12, 2010
Nicholas Cox, senior program manager with Yahoo, talks with Scott Koegler about integrating semantics with search, and how efforts are showing results in terms of more traffic and more satisfaction for users. ... [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]

Yahoo Tools Fate Undecided in Wake of Search Deal with Microsoft - eWeek - Posted February 19, 2010
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Yahoo! looks beyond Google's data cruncher - Register - Posted February 16, 2010
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Peer39: Interview with CEO Amiad Solomon on Semantic Advertising Issues and Opportunities - Posted February 8, 2010
Peer39: Interview with Amiad Solomon Founded in 2006 by an innovative group of scientists and engineers, Peer39 was voted by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the Top Ten Web Startups to Watch in 2008.  Semantic Universe editor Tony Shaw recently spoke with Founder and CEO Amiad Solomon about the company’s innovations,... [semanticweb.com]

Report: AP, Yahoo Close to Reaching Content Deal - Posted January 14, 2010
As reported in The Wall Street Journal earlier this morning, The Associated Press and Yahoo Inc. ... [FishbowlNY]

Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology " Part II - Posted December 22, 2009
In the final installment of this two-part series, Dean Allemang and Scott Henninger look into how the insights about semantic web education have an impact on the adoption of semantic web technologies. When we speak of 'technology adoption', we are referring to the uptake of a new technology by a large group... [semanticweb.com]

Porter Novelli and Voce Communications Win Yahoo Consumer Business - Posted December 16, 2009
We knew a final decision was coming soon, and PRNewser has now confirmed with Yahoo that the company has selected Porter Novelli Voce, a "unique joint venture" between Porter Novelli and Voce Communications as the company... [PRNewser]

Chicago Sun-Times Hires Marketing President - Posted December 9, 2009
Out of all the positions in the newspaper industry to freeze during a recession, it's sad that the people who write and edit the actual copy are the ones who have to find work in a different field. Meanwhile, advertising and marketing staffs continue to grow in many sectors, because media... [FishbowlNY]

Mary-Elisabeth Ghanem To Join Yahoo PR - Posted November 19, 2009
First on PRNewser: DiGennaro Communications account director Mary-Elisabeth Ghanem is leaving the agency to take a position with Yahoo's internal PR team. Today is her last day and she will be working in Yahoo's New York office starting next week. At... [PRNewser]

Yahoo In Midst of PR Review - Posted November 4, 2009
Yahoo has several PR RFPs in the works; two of which, for its consumer PR and measurement and metrics, have already been issued. The other, for B2B and metrics and measurement will be issued in "the next few days," said May Petry, vice president, corporate communications, Yahoo. PR... [PRNewser]

Former Yahoo VP of Corp. Comm. Brad Williams Joins Verisign - Posted October 6, 2009
Yahoo's former communications head, Brad Williams, will join Verisign, PRWeek's Aarti Shah ... [PRNewser]

Yahoo To Announce $100M Marketing Campaign Tomorrow - Posted September 21, 2009
It's day one of Advertising Week in New York, and so far one of the biggest stories is Yahoo's plans to announce a $100M marketing campaign Tuesday morning. In a somewhat rare occurrence, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal publis... [PRNewser]

Semantic Technology and Search - SES San Jose 2009 Coverage - Search Engine Journal - Posted August 18, 2009
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The Web of Data, Beyond What Google and Yahoo Show - Slashdot - Posted July 26, 2009
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KEYNOTE: Executive Round Table: Semantic Search - SemTech 2009 Video - Posted July 6, 2009
This Keynote is presented in six parts. Moderated by: Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group Speakers: Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Search Peter Norvig, Google Riza Berkan, hakia Scott Prevost, Powerset division of bing Tomasz Imielinski, Ask.com William Tunstall-Pedoe, True Knowledge Semantic technology changes the rules of the search marketspace, but exactly how, an... [semanticweb.com]

Everything You Wanted to Know About Semantic Technology, But Were ... - ReadWriteWeb - Posted June 26, 2009
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Galway eyes smarter web - Irish Times - Posted June 25, 2009
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Search leaders debate semantics - CNET News - Posted June 17, 2009
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Announcing Glue API - Posted June 16, 2009
Glue is a browser-based social network that connects friends around things they visit online. Glue appears on popular sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, Citysearch and many more, revealing friends and other Glue users interested in the same thing around the web. Today, we are announcing the public availability of... [semanticweb.com]

TopQuadrant Offers Free Semantic Web Modeling Tool - Posted June 16, 2009
First Free Semantic Web Editing and Querying Tool with Object-oriented Rule Modeling and RDFa Import SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2009, SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 16, 2009 - TopQuadrant(tm), the global leader in Semantic Web application development technology, today announced TopBraid Composer(tm) Free Edition... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even ... - Search Engine Land - Posted June 15, 2009
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Bing overtakes Yahoo as No 2 search engine - domain-B - Posted June 6, 2009
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Search for meaningful results - nebusiness.co.uk - Posted June 4, 2009
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WolframAlpha: Loaded with Potential, Short on Meaning - Posted June 1, 2009
I haven’t been formally trained on WolframAlpha nor have I thoroughly investigated it. In fact, I’ve spent more time reading the hype about it than I have actually kicking the tires. But from the time I’ve spent, some things are already obvious. First and prominently, WolframAlpha does not rely on semantic... [semanticweb.com]

Connect Your Thoughts To The Mindex With Imindi (Private Beta Invites) - TechCrunch - Posted May 25, 2009
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MSLO Co-CEO Moves to Media Advisory Firm - Posted April 21, 2009
Wenda Harris Millard, who joined ... [FishbowlNY]

The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontologies - ZDNet Blogs - Posted April 16, 2009
The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontolog... [semanticweb.com]

April 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss vocabularies and ontologies - Posted April 16, 2009
Podcast LinkIn the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, Yahoo!’s Peter Mika reports from VoCamp on the Spanish island of Ibiza to spark a wide-ranging discussion on the role of vocabularies and ontologies in the Semantic Web. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion (ESWC) Freebase Glue Linked... [semanticweb.com]

As Many As 500 Jobs Cut at Yahoo! - Posted April 15, 2009
Even though they have a new chief executive, Yahoo isn't safe from another round of layoffs. Though they lost close to 2400 employees last year, the search giant is still looking for ways to trim costs. The cuts are said to take place in what CEO ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Job Title To Watch: Digital Correspondent - Posted April 7, 2009
Being a blogger forces you to be a multi-tasker. If you're good at what you do, you not only write, but edit, photograph and sometimes even act as videographer and editor, all to create an engaging blog post. So how can you parlay that into a career? Today the American... [MediaJobsDaily]

Former AOL CEO Finds New Job With News Corp. - Posted March 30, 2009
The former head of AOL, Jon Miller, is joining News Corp in the new role of CEO, Digital Media ... [MediaJobsDaily]

More Changes At AOL - Posted March 26, 2009
Since he was hired two weeks ago at AOL, everyone has been wondering what Tim Armstrong&#151 former head of advertising at ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Google Keeps Tweaking Search Results, Leaving Little Room for Rivals - BusinessWeek - Posted March 24, 2009
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Yahoo enhances SearchMonkey developer platform - VNUNet.com - Posted March 13, 2009
Yahoo enhances S... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo: easier Searchmonkey means better search - CNET News - Posted March 12, 2009
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Doug Lenat - I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha - Posted March 10, 2009
Stephen Wolfram generously gave me a two-hour demo of Wolfram Alpha last evening, and I was quite positively impressed.  As he said, it's not AI, and not aiming to be, so it shouldn't be measured by contrasting it with HAL or Cyc but with Google or Yahoo.  At its heart is a... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo adds fancy Facebook links to search results - CNET News - Posted February 26, 2009
Yahoo adds fancy Facebook link... [semanticweb.com]

Web Publishing Roll Up: Tools, Tricks and Clicks - CMSWire - Posted February 26, 2009
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Yahoo s editor-in-chief on feeding the web 24/7 - Livemint - Posted February 22, 2009
Yahoo s editor-i... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo! Search Turns 5, Has Tech to Show For It - ReadWriteWeb - Posted February 18, 2009
Yahoo! Sear... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: Webmasters, Get Ready! - Posted February 9, 2009
Executive Summary Within the past few months, the Semantic Web has become something any Webmaster must take serious, because the key components are ready for production usage, and there are tangible benefits: With GoodRelations, there is now a standard vocabulary for e-commerce, RDFa provides a stable syntax ... [semanticweb.com]

Should Yahoo Buy Gawker, The New York Times? - Posted January 26, 2009
So what's in store for Yahoo? New CEO Carol Bartz will be announcing the company's first quarter results tomorrow, and all signs point towards the numbers being less than spectacular.... [FishbowlNY]

Ontology based mining of digital text - Internet monitoring for Investor Relations - Posted January 22, 2009
The evolution of the semantic web brings new possibilities to handle the information overload. This paper focuses on the motivation to integrate two applications and the usage of semantic content for information managers. Analysts and executives need to understand today the value of semantic technologies in relation to business intelligence and... [semanticweb.com]

In Search of Tags Lost: Combining Social Bookmarking and SemWeb Technologies - Posted January 20, 2009
— PHILIP DUDCHUK, SERGE MINORExecutive Summary We introduce a web application which integrates the core idea of social bookmarking with semantic components allowing to enhance search and navigation, and to overcome the drawbacks of collaborative tagging. Social Bookmarking and its Limits Social bookmark... [semanticweb.com]

Why Information Models Matter - Posted January 13, 2009
— BETH HUFFER, ANNE HUNTExecutive Summary If ontology is going to provide the next generation of intelligent information management, more attention must be given to creating high-fidelity, truly semantic models that are capable of representing not only the electronic media that are used to store the information, music, graphics, etc. that people care... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo! Layoffs: The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Posted December 16, 2008
Just a few days after its draconian layoffs, Yahoo! is still feeling the pinch of an angry mob that was p-o'd at being dumped. The result has been a boon for Valleywag.com, which posted some of the more interesting behind-th... [FishbowlLA]

Not Too Many Saying Yahoo! To Yahoo!: Layoffs Started Today - Posted December 10, 2008
Yahoo! in California went through with its quasi-announced layoffs today. Hundreds of people were shown the door by security guards (1,500 throughout the state; 200 in L.A.), complete with Christmas gifts in their arms and tears in their eyes. Generally, even though they were being lai... [FishbowlLA]

Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO - Posted November 18, 2008
Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yeste... [FishbowlNY]

The Rest of the World Not So Thrilled at the Empire of the Google - Posted September 16, 2008
Looks like the rest of the world isn't so thrilled at Google's "ever-tightening grip on internet traffic" and "its unbridled use of online content." Especially when it comes to the proposed Google-Yah... [FishbowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 16, 2008
Driven: Bob Pool is surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank with hybrid cars. We are surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank. ... [FishbowlLA]

Disney-ABC Adds Three Execs to Digital Media - Posted September 9, 2008
The good people at Disney sent over this press release, touting their poaching of Karin Timpone and Lauren DeVi... [FishbowlLA]

Yahoo Does the Hanging Chad, Yang Actually Not So Popular - Posted August 6, 2008
Rumors have been swirling since last week's Yahoo shareholder's meeting that the voting results from the August 1 election of its... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn Forsakes Yahoo Shareholder's High Noon Throwdown - Posted August 1, 2008
This is no fun at all. After months of stirring up trouble and headlines (and blog posts) proxy battler Carl Icahn will not be attending the Yahoo's long anticipated annual shareholders meeting today. ... [FishbowlNY]

Is That All There Is? Microsoft Calls it a Day on Yahoo Bid - Posted July 25, 2008
Alas. It looks like maybe, finally, Microsoft has thrown in the Yahoo towel. The last straw in the months long we-love-you, we-love-you-not dealings may have been this week's... [FishbowlNY]

Jerry Yang Speaks, er, Writes! - Posted July 17, 2008
In recent weeks most of the talk about the operatic ins and outs of the Yahoo and Microsoft relationship have centered around what proxy battler ... [FishbowlNY]

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google Take it to the Judge - Posted July 16, 2008
If only we could all take our bad relationship complaints directly to a congressional hearing. At an anti-trust hearing yesterday an exec for Microsoft — whose ... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn and Microsoft Fail to Charm Yahoo, Again - Posted July 14, 2008
It's back off-again. Over the week-end Yahoo rejected Carl Icahn and ... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn Sweet Talks Microsoft Back to the Yahoo Table - Posted July 8, 2008
We're running out of relationship metaphors to describe the on-again, off-again business dealings between Yahoo, Microsoft and more recently, ... [FishbowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted June 13, 2008
Coolest Story of the Day: In Myanmar, an unnamed LAT reporter is working in secret to cover the devastation the government is trying to hide in the wake... [FishbowlLA]

Jason Wang Joins Razorfish - Posted June 12, 2008
Former speakTECH tech strategist Jason Wang has joined the Marketing firm of Avenue A/Razorfish, which (according to... [FishbowlLA]

How Yahoo! is defining the Semantic Web - Posted June 2, 2008
Yahoo! has entered the Semantic Web with the announcement of RDF support in SearchMonkey . And leave it to a semantic web veteran like Peter Mika to be the one to make it happen. SearchMonkey has become the inspiration for my latest cocktail-party answer to the question, "What is the... [semanticweb.com]

Technology Review - Operator - Posted May 21, 2008
As I was preparing for my upcoming embedded RDF/microformats talk at the Semantic Technology Conference, I wasn't too surprised at the level of discourse that has transpired between the RDF evangelists and the microformat followers.  I've been around long enough to remember the object-oriented vs. relational database arguments, various interpreted vs.... [semanticweb.com]

Mother and baby doing well - Posted March 14, 2008
You know something is up when RDF and the Semantic Web are mentioned on TechCrunch . That's not one of the 'new company raises $6m to enable Semantic Web search, but is never heard of again' kind of mentions. It's a simple, straightforward, 'Yahoo! is now starting to index the metadata... [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]

Technology Review - TopBraid Composer s SparqlMotion - Posted January 6, 2008
Taking a break from ontology visualization, we investigate an novel technology out of TopQuadrant that gets users one step closer to realizing the power of the Semantic Web. Last month, Holger’s blog mentioned that TopQuadrant had released a new “visualization language... [semanticweb.com]

Using Microformats to Get Started with the Semantic Web - Posted October 4, 2007
Web developers use microformats to get out of the Semantic Web starting gate. True technological paradigm shifts don't happen easily. There's always the challenge of getting from here to there. The IT industry has typically referred to this as the "installed base" problem, and it represents as thorny an issue for... [semanticweb.com]

Authors At the Workplace to Read, Not Work - Posted July 23, 2007
The SF Chronicle's Tamara Straus looks at the recent trend of publishers sending authors not to the bookstores, but to the workplace to tour. Since the fall of 2005, for example, Google has joined several large West Coast companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo in hosting authors for weekly, sometimes... [GalleyCat]

Wenda Harris Millard Exits Yahoo for MSLO - Posted June 25, 2007
Yahoo! loses another--Wenda Harris Millard resigned to join Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as president of media. Millard will be charge of all MSLO's media businesses, which include publishing, Internet a... [FishbowlLA]

LAT Finds Its "Missing Ingredient" - Posted May 31, 2007
And just what was that missing ingredient? Another chef. LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2007 -- The Los Angeles Times Media Group today announced that Scott Sullivan, former chief information officer for Edmunds.com and senior vice president of technology operations and engineering for ... [FishbowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted April 16, 2007
Stealing Its Own Thunder: So much for understanding the media. CBS Corp. announced its "rapid evolution from an old-media titan into a powerful Internet player" with a "Rolling Thunder," a new online network that will partner with Micros... [FishbowlLA]

Obama | Judy Miller | Graydon Carter | David Letterman | Ann Moore: Time Inc. Needs More Failures | New York Mag To Move Downtown? | Wallpaper Eyes Details Editor - Posted January 31, 2007
Obama: Putting "deep freeze" on Fox News reporters? [Washington Post's Sleuth] Judy Miller: Testifies at Libby trial. [WSJ] ... [FishbowlNY]