This post was written by Liz Brady
ClearForest Gnosis addon has a great future but there is no point of lots of ‘hyperlinks’ to ’search engines’ when there is no data there e.g. the Reuters service. More work is needed to hide those services which have no data for the particular hyperlink. Reviewers were impressed with the natural language processing unit it has but they dont see how pointing to a search engine with the key word is any different than someone pulling up google or yahoo on their own.
AdaptiveBlue´s BlueOrganizer, one such site incorporating the semantic web approach, is a Firefox plug-in which understands what a page is about; because it is able to comprehend the contents of a site, it can automatically retrieve related info from other sites. Bluemarks, or BlueOrganizer bookmarks can be easily shared across the web with friends and family. Your Bluemarks can be organized into Bluebadges, widgets which can be placed in your blog or profile to share your bookmarks. AdaptiveBlue is seriously one cool plug-in.
Google Semantics 2.2 is a brilliant little Firefox add-on that can help SEO and Google user and content writing quite a bit. It helps users to find out proper words on which Google can work faster and smoother. The updated version is worth trying for all. Google Semantics 2.2 helps for better SEO using Google’s own Synonyms also referred to as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and is a vital element in Search Engine Optimization and article writing.
Semantic Radar is a plug-in for Firefox, notifying the user if it finds SIOC, FOAF or DOAP data referenced by the page he is currently viewing. When such data is detected a little icon will appear on the bottom right side of you browser, which lets you access the embedded data easily. Semantic Radar is very handy, great to see what data is available from a page without having to view source. For a Web developer working with linked data it’s a must-have. The design seems a good balance of features.
Mozilla is currently leading the major browser vendors in bringing semantics to everyday Web browsing, courtesy of tools built into its upcoming Firefox 3 Web browser. However, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) may not be far behind too. Both the browsers are working to include certain measure of support for microformats — a simple means of categorizing Web content as metadata. Alex Faaborg, Mozilla’s user experience designer, “Firefox 3’s microformats API and support for detecting different types of content inside of RSS feeds are both important steps in the direction of creating a Semantic Web browser.”
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.