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This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

This is going to be BIG.

Just as the internet changed the way we could market, will e-books do the same? Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in action Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. How does this effect digital marketing? RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: What the RDF? 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

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

Findings is a "tool for collecting, sharing and discussing clips you find on your Amazon Kindle and from any website on the internet.". DEVONthink features a clever algorithm that detects subtle semantic connections between distinct passages of text. Enter Findings. I use DEVONthink as an improvisational tool as well.

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Strategic $5 Million B Round for Jinni for Video Discovery

VC Cafe

A s TV’s gradually get connected to the Internet, there is an increasing appetite for smart content recommendation. Think of it as a search engine for video content that understands the semantic meaning behind the query.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Actually, "the market" and "commodities" are just a way of saying "shared context", but that's just semantics. new features please, suit) are conflicting limiting factors in another (e.g. less pain please, scruff). Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). Well, I am not in the Bay area, I am in the New York city area. Spent a lot of money on that.