UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.
A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn't like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.
Who would have ever guessed the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) would become a role model for information sharing? However, a service-oriented architecture effort within the U.S. Department of Defense's intelligence community is helping the DoD better share information as well as modernize systems.
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!
Healthline Networks has rolled out Healthline Navigator, a new Medically Guided™ in-text content navigation and distribution tool for Web publishers and marketers. The new navigation platform is rolling out across many top-tier HealthWeb with the potential to reach over 40 million unique users a month.
Semantic technology company, Ontotext, and Structured Dynamics have formed a partnership to address some of the key semantic "gaps" in the semantic Web. The partnership will focus on development of the next generation of the UMBEL and PROTON ontologies, as well as tools and applications based on them.
On Thursday, November 4th at 1 p.m. EST, Siteworx will host a live webinar titled, "Enterprise Search - Key Driver of Today's Best Web Experiences," featuring Leslie Owens, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc.