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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

This is going to be BIG.

Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in action Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. Like many evolving technologies, there remains a gap between theory and practice. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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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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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology.

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

He explains how technology can turn random snippets into inspiration: "I keep all these quotes in a database using a program called DEVONthink, where I also store my own writing: chapters, essays, blog posts, notes. DEVONthink features a clever algorithm that detects subtle semantic connections between distinct passages of text.

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Strategic $5 Million B Round for Jinni for Video Discovery

VC Cafe

Jinni enables users to search for TV shows and movies based on its ‘ Movie Genome ‘ technology. Think of it as a search engine for video content that understands the semantic meaning behind the query. Some of the featured searches include: “award winner secret agent comedy&# , or “love story in New York&#.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, the transformations are often from migrating all those rudimentary legacy systems into a technological windtunnel described by Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near. Actually, "the market" and "commodities" are just a way of saying "shared context", but that's just semantics.