Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! I know that it sounds weird to those that don’t remember those days but people were pissed off that the Internet was becoming commercialized. It’s for all of us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. are appearing.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine a scenario where a user has a specific question in his mind and decides to search for it on the internet. It uses smart algorithms to analyze the given text at semantic and syntactic levels, understanding the intended meaning of the text. While he may open some of these articles, he ends up skipping the actual reading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer. Even consultants don’t like their job, since they don’t often get to see results, and too much of their time is spent looking for the next gig.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0, Based on your needs you can choose a protocol that offers foundational (MQTT), structural (AMQP, XMPP), or full semantic interoperability (DDS, CoAP). With semantic operability, devices can exchange meaningful messages and act on the information exchanged.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. Other non-semantic variables are important as well. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

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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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. These are businesses aiming for scale and impact, not merely monetization.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. I do have a quick and dirty sample up on victusmedia.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer. Even consultants don’t like their job, since they don’t often get to see results, and too much of their time is spent looking for the next gig.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2016

He called his dream the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0), meaning that it could learn and interpret the user context just as human personal assistants do. Today’s personal assistants seem focused on expediting the Internet search process and simplifying text-intensive device control commands on your smartphone or tablet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer. Even consultants don’t like their job, since they don’t often get to see results, and too much of their time is spent looking for the next gig.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Internet of Things. semantic web. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. Online Communities. The Social Layer. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising. developers. foursquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

How about Jana , which brings internet access to the developing world and boasts 30 million global users? There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

buzz is hype, but things are changing on the Internet, and bits and pieces of Web 3.0 include mobile and residential phones with high quality video, virtual shows surpassing live events, more intelligent semantic search information, and the openness of the Web. and I’m determined that it won’t happen again. are appearing.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

This includes investments in companies like Greenplum , which is powering the back-end data warehousing for a number of high profile Internet companies for targeted advertising; and Peer39 , which provides semantic advertising solutions by using natural language processing and machine learning.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

John Jantsch (04:30): So going back to the ancient ages of the internet, you know, people would sometimes even turn images off because of bandwidth issues and things. They have scraped almost every image on the internet. I think you need to think about it semantically. They get 28 billion a week uploaded.

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Search Technical Review Clickthrough Canada 78

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. I predict that data over time will become the next major layer of the Internet supporting both consumer and business applications.". Discuss.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Mark Suster, QD3, Brian Solis, Chamillionaire, Ian Rogers, Brian Zisk.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Really in fact, I tell people all the time, I started doing this before we had the internet. You know, has Google gotten or the search engines gotten so good at understanding the semantic meaning of what we’re writing that, you know, we don’t really need to worry as much about feeding the machine?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

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). Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 6, 2010

The first was an Semantic Web Austin event hosting Mark Greaves from Vulcan Inc. Paul Allen’s asset management group – www.vulcan.com ) to discuss the opportunities in the semantic web space. With the Semantic Web, you can ask things like “How many white elephants are there in China who belong to people making over $10K?”

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). This is about how behemoths adapt to Coase's Theorem now that the Internet is making that a practical consideration. ( You can reach Bernard Lunn at bernard dot lunn at gmail dot com. But the change that is happening is very fundamental.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 11, 2010

For me, Twitter is now borderless and operates at internet scale. When it comes to brand promotion, marketers will drool over the semantic data and opportunity to engage consumers on a unique level. Twitter’s Pipe Could Benefit From Gatekeeping. Passports are the ear marks of life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Actually, "the market" and "commodities" are just a way of saying "shared context", but that's just semantics. The story of the engineering manager is one of an Architectural challenge - positive value expectations in one context (e.g. less pain please, scruff). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

" As I reflect on the last decade, I never really did think that as an investor in software and the Internet that the question would become almost irrelevant and would change to "what is Google doing or going to do?" The number of internet users reached 1 billion in 2005. But he insists that there are crucial differences.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

Monkeys with Internet Access because I’ve been wanting to hear Clay Shirky. 3:30pm – *Cue self-serving segment* Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web. Four excellent sessions at 11am: - 2009 Iran Election will hopefully settle an ongoing argument I’m having about social media’s true impact on real-world events.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Moreover, videos are semantic search friendly , meaning Google will prefer listing videos on the search results when people are looking for more information related to the product. Last but not the least, try creating a Vblog because in the coming years, vlogs are going to rule the internet. Videos are one of the best content types.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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