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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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Dis-Cord: Mobile Transactions and the Death of Cash

Austin Startup

To shed some light, here are some of the more interesting stats I found: · Revenues from mobile shopping and auctions started to outgrow mobile content revenues as early as 2005. That should be available as metadata for future searches. The dominant players in this category are Yahoo! participate in auctions.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.