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Tom Tague, of the OpenCalais Initiative—a Phase2 Technology and Thomson Reuters partnership, gave the keynote address to the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference attendees in San Jose a couple of weeks ago. He presented an exciting vision for the future of semantic technologies and introduced the concept of a new paradigm for interaction.
Irakli:
Today Phase2 announced our second turn-key open-source solution: Tattler (app), a topic monitoring tool for the Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on topics you ask it to monitor. Using Semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to your organization.
Dwight:
TripIt's core feature is the ability to accept emails with travel/booking information and then use that information to automatically populate the user's itinerary. I'll provide an example: say you just booked an Amtrak ticket to New York. You can then forward your confirmation email from Amtrak to plans@tripit.com. In addition to their own technical innovations, TripIt increases its value by following the trend of integrating with third party apps.
Tiffany:
On Tuesday night, a group of the DC areas leading online news practitioners gathered in a bar (go figure) to learn about the best sites and solutions for covering and digging into the new trend of government transparency. There were great presentations from Washington Post.com's Amanda Zamora and Phase2's Jeff Walpole.
Joel:
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5. And, while there is an outdated plug in with the same name, maybe it should have been called "Faster"fox 3.5.
Laura:
For years, web designers have been faced with two choices when creating a text-element on a page: 1) Stick with web fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, et al, and use HTML text, or 2) Use text as images.
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As a leader in the news industry, the Knight Foundation is transforming the way communities and journalists create and disseminate content. Each year the foundation grants millions of dollars to this initiative and while it prides itself on giving to a wide range of projects, there does seem to be an exciting underlying trend¬open source.
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Just in case you missed it - NTEN has now posted this year’s conference resources, including recordings, blogging notes, and session materials.
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The Obama campaign was founded on hope and change. Our fearless leader promised a new level of openness, not only for major issues like healthcare and corporate financial reporting, but also in the daily operations of the government. Now that he’s been in office 5 months, it’s becoming very clear that such leaps toward transparency will demand a new level of open data, technologically advanced systems, and all at a reduced price
Tirdad:
There's really no reason you should need Javascript to preload images when it can be done with a little CSS.
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