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Expert System has released two semantic Web products in the U.S., COGITO Monitor and COGITO Focus. COGITO Monitor is a semantic-based analyzer of consumer opinions and sentiment from online forums and blogs. It searches throughout the Web, measuring and graphing ‘customers’ feedback about your companies’ products and services. On the other hand, COGITO Focus is a semantic indexing, search and analysis tool that manages strategic internal and external information.
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Radar Networks has recently launched Twine, an application that organizes information and connects people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos and photos. Along with Metaweb’s Freebase, Powerset, Hakia, Reuters’ Calias, AdaptiveBlue and a few other start-ups, Radar Networks is trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web. Twine attempts to build a “semantic graph” of relationships between content, tags, people and Twines (the collection of items of an individual or group on the service). Radar Networks CEO Nova Spivack said that each piece of content is a “semantic object” that uses Twine’s underlying ontology and database, which applies semantic technologies such as RDF for storing data.
OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original Web collection platform, has released OutWit Hub as a free Firefox 3 extension. The program is the first multipurpose Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect media and data from the Internet and reuse them in the most common applications. The program gathers dozens of semantic recognition and automatic extraction features to ease Web searches, create scrapers, collect images, sort and organize the information and produce personalized mashups.
- Cuil is the name and the blogosphere is abuzz about weather it will kill Google. Honestly, I can never understand why we constantly expect every single new product to kill something that is strong in the particular niche already. Normally I hate that type of post titles - they sound to me like BMW is a Mercedes killer. And that makes me doubt the products even more usually - when startups fail to come up with something unique, they often choose a path of “We will kill Google”.
Incansoft, a Greek software development firm has recently launched Content Mania, a PLR Content text processing application. This application is specifically designed for providing an aid to the writers for web content optimization. In turn, it helps in improving the search engine ranking by means of Latent Semantic Analysis. Content mania is a powerful combination of sophisticated Linguistic Algorithms and Comprehensive Metrics. It guides the writers through the process of developing the original and contextually relevant content from PLR (Private Label Rights). It also ensures the content’s Syntactical Resemblance even when the original PLR content is minimized.
Cycorp, Inc., a leading provider of semantic web technologies, recently introduced a vast open-source knowledge base of concepts for the Web and a commonsense reasoning engine, OpenCyc. Using OpenCyc terms to represent Web content enables true semantic interoperability. Since, semantic web standards such as RDF/OWL provide a combined structure for meaningful exchange of information among applications, without an extensive shared vocabulary these exchanges will be quite limited. The OpenCyc theory removes this limitation by supplying an extensive network of terms, in such forms that can be understood both by computers and humans. It ensures that these applications will surely have something to express.