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Curation is the New Search is the New Curation 29 Jan 2011 | 05:35 am
Here is an exciting post by Paul Kedrosky on how curation will be key to future search. In the past, when the web was only a couple millions of pages one company like Yahoo could curate a director...
Government Transparency: Beyond just putting Government Datasets on the Web to making them Searchable! 23 Jun 2010 | 06:29 am
Returning from Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington got me more interested in this budding Government Transparency phenomenon. At this time it is mostly a lot of buzz and very little tangible progress. Here are...
Data is the Future of Web: Latest Validation from Prominent Investors? 12 Feb 2010 | 04:08 am
Factual is the latest to join Semantifi and others in the chorus that the “Future of the Web is Data”. Founded by Gil Elbaz of the successful Applied Semantics and with many prominent investors includ...
The Future of Search (Part 2) 24 Jan 2010 | 12:31 pm
A little over a year ago I posted some thoughts on “The Future of Search” (Oct ’08). Since then, we learned a lot more and see that future a little more clearly. We still believe in all those predicti...
Semantifi for the pros or the rest of us — a case study 16 Jan 2010 | 02:06 am
Here is an example to illustrate that you don’t need be a professional trader or investor or a research analyst to investigate company financials or SEC Filings data. Imagine you are a New York Times ...
Publisher Console soon to be available. Check out & Suggest Apps Ideas. 12 Jan 2010 | 05:13 am
We recently added a page for App Ideas to our Wiki section of the website. http://wiki.semantifi.com/index.php/App_Ideas This page illustrates the kind of Apps anyone can build using Semantifi Sear...
On Government Data: Data Catalogs. Transparency Initiatives. What’s next? 13 Dec 2009 | 09:55 am
In a recent interview with Fast Company, Lisa Strausfeld who is a partner at Pentagram said “If we could be as obsessive with government data as we are with baseball stats, maybe it would change the f...
Many Roads to the Deep Web 12 Dec 2009 | 08:51 am
Semantifi, Google, Microsoft, Kosmix, DeepPeep, DeepDyve, Socrata, Infochimps, Data.gov and many others are trying to search the Deep Web. Each has different technologies, tools, and most importantly ...
Microsoft Is Losing Fight for Consumers, Analyst Says 12 Dec 2009 | 04:12 am
I saw this article in the New York Times this morning. Mark Anderson, the writer behind the Strategic News Service, a predictive newsletter with a wide following among technology executives and ventu...
Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web. Right on the Vision. What about the Approach? 11 Dec 2009 | 01:45 pm
Here is Tim Berners-Lee talking about how “data” makes up the next Web or so called “Data or Deep Web”. This clearly validates our enthusiasm the Deep Web Search. While Semantifi shares his vision fo...
