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I recently posted my notes on the 1st masterclass of the SharePoint conference we organize. The 2nd masterclass of the SharePoint conference is by Andrew Wright . His talk is about ‘contextual intranet’. I'm sharing my summary of the masterclass below. I think I'll also post one or two more posts on the conference itself. But first Andrew Wright's masterclass about 'contextual intranets'. What is a contextual intranet? Wright’s definition is: An intranet that facilitates the development of content – both qualified (signal) and unqualified (noise) – that supports continuous improvement, efficient operations and employee engagement and delivers this content in a meaningful context to the employee. Characteristics of the contextual intranet The contextual intranet exists of the following elements: Content development Business imperatives (continuous improvement, operations (tasks), employee engagement) Content delivery (context provided by meta dat...

If you've been reading my blog for some time you'll know I'm very interested in 'web 3.0' or 'the semantic web' . We'll it seems this will not be the name for the new web. It will be: Web Squared. Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle recently published a report telling us what 'Web Squared' will look like. It's a fascinating report with great examples and ideas. Some nice quotes: Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective intelligence. (...) The web is the world - everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow", an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mindbending implications. (...) What we see in practice is that meaning is learned "inferentially" from a body of data. Meaning is taught to the computer. (...) The real world objects have information shadows in cyberspace. (...) A person has information shadows in a hos...

It's been way to long ago. But I was invited to try SemanticProxy . ReadWriteWeb recently had a nice overview post on Semantic web applications and Calais was one of them. Calais is: ...a toolkit of products that enable users to incorporate semantic functionality within their blog, content management system, website or application. Since launching the Open Calais API early this year, over 6,000 developers have registered with it and the service is doing more than 1 million transactions a day. We wrote about the launch of Calais' easiest-to-use service yet , called SemanticProxy , at the end of September. Version 3.0 was released earlier this month and version 4 is expected by January 09. RWW verdict one year later: Calais has really blossomed over the past year and it is one of the most promising Semantic services around today. We can't wait to see what's next! I finally had time to play around with SemanticProxy. I first tried the demo using the ...

Anyway, let’s get back to the new apps. I collected all kinds of information on these tools. Lots of insightful articles have been written on them too. Here’s an overview of the posts: About Twine : Really short video about Twine. Presentation on the Semantic Web and Twine. Techcrunch review of Twine. RoughType review of Twine. O’Reilly Review of Twine. ReadWriteWeb review of Twine. About Powerset : Not too much posts about them lately. Wrote about them before here and here (and pointed to other posts on them). I’ll be posting again about Powerset soon! About TrueKnowledge : ReadWriteWeb review of TrueKnowledge Also check out this panel discussion on the Semantic Web at the Web 2.0 summit titled ‘The Semantic Edge’ with demo’s (although you can’t see them…) of Radar Networks (Twine), Powerset and Metaweb (Freebase). Metaweb kicks of with a demo of Freebase . It’s about opening up the silo’s of data. And creating interconnections between...

There’s (been) a lot of buzz about new Semantic Web and natural language tools the last couple of months (sometimes called 'web 3.0' ...). News about Radar Network’s Twine , Metaweb’s Freebase , TrueKnowledge and Powerset . (I got my invite to Powerset the other day!) This is very interesting. And I’m really curious whether these new apps will take us further than all the Semantic Web and natural language processing promises that were made in the nineties. Then semantic search was promoted and question answering, automatic summarization, etc. Semantic Web, language and speech technology was also hyped by companies like Lernout and Hauspie . After L&H came crashing down it seemed that natural language and speech technology turned quiet, was licking it’s wounds and looking for new approaches. With this in mind I was surprised by the fact that there are several companies attempting to address this market again. And practically at the same time. I’m always curious how ...