Semantic Video at Google
SemanticWeb.com: Search leader announces support for Facebook Share and Yahoo SearchMonkey RDFa to help increase chances of videos on web sites appearing in Google results.
MBI Means Business For the Semantic Web
SemanticWeb.com: U.K. government project seeks better, lower-cost way to create market intelligence out of the vast data sets found in typical enterprise environments.
Semantic Web Start-up Computes Event Odds
Network World: You're more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark, say the researchers behind a soon-to-debut, semantic-based Web startup called Book of Odds.
Google Snags Semantic Web Firm Metaweb
With its latest acquisition, Google aims for a smarter search engine that can answer more complex queries using tags from real-world items in an open source database.
iPhone Users Loves Them Some Wolfram-Alpha
<img alt="WolframAlpha.gif" src="http://www.semanticweb.com/original/WolframAlpha.gif" width="381" height="67" align="right" vspace="6" hspace="3" />An application for online answer engine <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/">Wolfram Alpha</a> apparently is a big hit with iPhone users. Here's an email we received today from the Wolfram Alpha team:<blockquote>We are happy to announce that the Wolfram|Alpha App for the iPhone and iPod touch popped up on the App Store's "What's Hot" list today. We are delighted that Apple selected the app to be featured, recognizing the intense interest and excitement being shown in Wolfram|Alpha.We were pleasantly surprised, too, to see the Wolfram|Alpha App appear on the store's "Top Grossing" list on the second day it was available and remain there
Houston, We Have Some Semantic Web Start-ups That Need Funding
<strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Jennifer-Zaino-profile.html">Jennifer Zaino</a></strong><br /> <em>SemanticWeb.com Contributor</em>Slowing down their start-up investments, VCs <a href="http://www.semanticweb.com/news/semantic_web_startups_in_search_of_money_part_1_139200.asp">aren’t raising as much money</a> these days. Recently Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association said the third quarter saw the smallest number of venture funds raising money in a single quarter since the third quarter of 1994.Just 17 venture capital funds raised $1.6 billion in the third quarter this year – in 1994’s third quarter, 17 funds were also raised and the lowest level of dollars were committed since the first quarter of 2003 when $938 million was raised
Glue Gets Game
<strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Jennifer-Zaino-profile.html">Jennifer Zaino</a></strong><br /> <em>SemanticWeb.com Contributor</em>Officially launched Tuesday, GetGlue.com represents a new dimension for semantic web start-up <a href="http://www.semanticweb.com/news/adaptiveblue_takes_the_cap_off_glue_139055.asp">Adaptive Blue</a> – and its users, too.Glue is the semantic recognition technology for helping users find what they may like next in the way of movies, books, music and so on based on what they, their friends, and others using the social network already like. One big change is that now Glue is a destination, not just a browser plug-in, with a continuous stream of suggestions, recommendations and the like available right at the <a
XBRL, Semantic Web Technologies Complement Each Other
<strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Jennifer-Zaino-profile.html">Jennifer Zaino</a></strong><br /> <em>SemanticWeb.com Contributor</em>At the recent workshop co-organized by W3C and XBRL International on improving access to financial data on the web, a few key issues related to the semantic web took center stage.<img alt="W3C-logo.gif" src="http://www.semanticweb.com/original/W3C-logo.gif" width="198" height="154" align="right" vspace="6" hspace="3" />The goal of the workshop was to identify opportunities and challenges for interactive access to financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the broader opportunities for semantic technologies.The workshop took place against the background of mandates by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for large U.S. public
Semantic Web 
An application for online answer engine Wolfram Alpha apparently is a big hit with iPhone users. Here's an email we received today from the Wolfram Alpha team:
The goal of the workshop was to identify opportunities and challenges for interactive access to financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the broader opportunities for semantic technologies.The workshop took place against the background of mandates by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for large U.S. public
The service can search through documents and identify themes without those themes having been previously defined. The program is being used by news organizations to build new landing pages that consolidate articles already in inventory,
Researchers have high hopes that semantic technology will help them deal with the issues of making academic and scientific information more easily explorable and accessible. 
Don’t take out your betting cards yet. Rather than being a tool to help you get lucky on the next horse race, Book of Odds is about providing the odds of everyday life. It defines itself as an ever-expanding semantic database of probabilities that helps users find unexpected links between odds statements – the odds of a man over 50 being diagnosed with heart disease is about the same as the odds that an adult is afraid of
One of those companies is Knewco, whose semantic platform combines knowledge discovery for the user with contextual advertising for content providers and marketers.The company, which is working on commercializing the product this quarter with the goal of fully rolling out the technology next year, recently named as CEO Dave Rothenberg, the founder of
