Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. But, Quigo succeeded in licensing AdSonar to Overture.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Technical semantics and jargon. On the other hand, if the source is unknown or un-trusted, the message may be ignored or minimized. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication. Jargon only has meaning if the symbols are already understood.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. But it turns out that consumers didn’t think it sucked. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Blank provides another decision-making heuristic: Think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are [.] Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From a user perspective, on any given day you may connect to Facebook or Gmail or even a business application like Salesforce.com, and find that there are new features, new layout or organization of screen elements, new keystroke patterns, even new semantics associated with privacy, security, or data entered and displayed.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. What’s the difference between an angel round and pre-seed round and why do I believe we’ll see more pre-seed rounds taking place in 2024?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Technical semantics and jargon. On the other hand, if the source is unknown or un-trusted, the message may be ignored or minimized. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication. Jargon only has meaning if the symbols are already understood.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We’re investing in Nexus alongside 1confirmation, Blockchain Capital, and Semantic Ventures and are excited about being part of bringing insurance back to the people. And i f you want to get involved with Nexus , please consider joining their Discord.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

You should shape your content around semantics and natural language because they will play a crucial role in determining how pages rank in the search engine results page (SERP). It includes streamlining the front-end and back-end processes for enhanced website performance with due consideration for on-page and off-site SEO.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

They can have more desirable semantics, too. For instance, ArrayList.sort invokes Arrays.sort on the ArrayList's internal array. CopyOnWriteArrayList does the same. Performance isn't the only potential gain from these new methods. For instance, sorting a Collections.synchronizedList() is an atomic operation using list.sort.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The other day I helped two of our coworkers, Meghan Jones and Deborah Toodle get their wordpress website started ([link] and yesterday I was at the bottom looking up at some of Austin’s most brilliant semantic web experts at an event we hosted for the semantic web community and the City of Austin.&#.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). I do have a quick and dirty sample up on victusmedia.com. The google adsense search button gives a feel for the direction of relevant advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2018

The user’s zip code determines whether local results are displayed, and latent semantic indexing (LSI) returns pages with keywords that connect to the phrase that’s been searched. For instance, using Google, web pages visited by a user’s friends will show up on the first page of the search results.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 23, 2025

Users can “chat with their tabs” through lightweight agents that understand content semantically and coordinate through a central orchestrator. After Arc’s success, The Browser Company is betting everything on Dia, where AI isn’t a feature but the fundamental interaction model.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Many tools which semantically analyze brand mentions, often mistake bad to be a negative mention, when it actually is a place. Sometimes tools lead to recommendations that do not make sense depending on your languages. In Germany, “bad” does not necessarily mean bad. It may refer to a place actually.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models. Next-Generation Autocomplete – a system that learns your style and completes everything you need to write based on your history, with privacy and speed.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Other non-semantic variables are important as well. A well-named site can thus easily rank 10-20% higher than a poorly named one on a purely non-semantic basis. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion. The best names tend to be short, to use dictionary words, to be devoid of hyphens, and/or to include a numeral.

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tomazkovacic.com

MARCH 24, 2011

A hierarchical semantic structure is then employed to represent the structure of the website. A hierarchical semantic structure is then employed to represent the structure of the website. The algorithm applies vertical and horizontal separators to the block layout to construct such a semantic structure.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

The members of this elite group solve novel “big data” problems under the pressure of national security, so this environment produces experts in cutting-edge predictive analytics, semantic modeling, and machine learning technology. As pointed out by Forbes , this type of data analytics is hugely relevant in B2B lead generation.

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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.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

seed round to to break infrastructure code into small pieces and orchestrate them using semantic relationships! Great news Ella Tkach-Dreazen and team Koios on your $5M seed round to detect online financial threats and manipulation campaigns against publicly traded companies! Awesome milestone Idan Yalovich and team Bluebricks on your $4.5M

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. 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. are appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer. If you are the CFO, showing results means you set up the accounting system, and generate the first P&Ls. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Have "customers", not "clients." All aspects of customer service apply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. But some are skeptical about whether the Semantic Web - or at least, Berners-Lee's view of it - will actually take hold. The Semantic Web isn't really even a new idea. This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Reputology explains that its “semantic analysis technology converts the unstructured content from reviews & feedback into actionable data.” But, if you’re looking for more control over (and insight into) your online reputation data, consider a paid tool like Reputology. But, even better, it allows you to measure and analyze the data.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin. The Assistant Director will also help host the Texas Wireless Summit , the Wireless Seed Stage Forum and the Entrepreneur Lounge at SXSW (this alone is worth it). ATI On Campus “Assistant Director&#.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

VideoSeed, 5min Media’s proprietary semantic technology, matches the most relevant videos with a partner site’s text content to enhance the consumer experience and increase monetization rates. AOL began integrating 5min Media’s video content on its sites through a commercial agreement executed prior to the acquisition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2013

With the move by Google towards semantic intent I’ll be producing as much content as possible that narrows in on context as well as content. For my kind of business that’s done by getting as specific as possible about addressing intent.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

semantic web. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising. developers. foursquare. social networks. social networking. google plus. augmented reality. mobile web. RWW PARTNERS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2013

Some of this might simply be semantics because the terms are widely fumbled around in various places, but here’s what I find to be true. Now it might be tempting to conclude that what I referring to is a lack of sales, but what I’m really getting at is a misunderstanding there’s actually a distinction between sales and marketing.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 20, 2019

Text Optimizer is the semantic research tool that goes right to the source—Google’s search snippets. This section offers “keyword extensions” (i.e. extending your base term into a longer phrase) and lists closely related terms you should consider using in your content.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Semantic Language Coding: New software will be developed granting coding powers to anyone who can speak. Clean Meat Movement: Clean meat (nature identical meat grown in a lab) will be lower cost financially and environmentally, than meat grown through traditional agriculture.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Whilst it may sound like semantics, a well-designed IP programme and process must not be overlooked when you are wanting to be strategic with IP. The IP programme and processes they had in place, ensured that a clean room approach was just one of many strategies they used to achieve a successful outcome.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual. The result is that we’ve had a lot of innovation coming from LA in terms of monetization. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Of course we know that this is already happening as web services are now driving significant portions of the Internet and people are driving toward a future Semantic Web. When machines can talk with others machines you will have a truly powerful Internet. Consider some simple examples. But of course not everybody has.

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