Semantic Technologies Monthly Review. February 2010
A new month, shorter than others in length but no in news intensity, at least referred to semantics. Related to Knowledge Management, we find several pieces of news about Companies that work with semantic technologies. For instance, Empolis an Attensity group company and leading provider in business user applications that generate value from unstructured data has been recognized as one of the world’s most important companies in the field of knowledge management by the prestigious list of “KMWorld’s 100.
But the most commented movement in this area has been the Open Text acquisition of NStein, the Canadian company that offers some pretty nifty semantic technology, which helps generate semantic metadata for FT.com’s Newsift site. So, Open Text a Canadian company too, that is specialized in content management joins the semantic wave.
Microsoft, whose search engine “Bing” is including semantic technologies coming from “Powerset”, continues with its interest in these technologies. For this reason, Cognition Technologies, the creator of the most advanced and complete semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology on the market, announced that Microsoft Corp. has licensed some of its proprietary semantic technologies and will be using them to enhance Bing and other applications within Microsoft. Besides this, Microsoft and Yahoo have made search pact official, what raises some questions about how Search Monkey–a project to advance semantic search concepts—will fit in Microsoft strategy.
Other symptom of the good relationship between Microsoft and Semantic technologies is that, Empolis, an Attensity(TM) Group company and the leading provider of semantic applications for unstructured data, has become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the software vendor category.
In the search area about unstructured social information, the U.K. search firm WorkDigital has launched Buzzzy, a search engine for Google’s Buzz. WorkDigital built Buzzzy because the semantic search technology firm needed an index of Buzz items to layer into its tools.
Related to other specialized search areas, Monster.com, a job matching engine and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., introduced its patented semantic 6Sense search technology, delivering precision matches for seekers and employers.
Tapping the social communities is other field where semantic technologies have been gaining momentum and are now in the peak. For this reason Attensity and Lithium co-presenting webinar to enable companies to extend the value of customer communities
Listening the markets is the idea of the Azouk Company Channel, a new online B2B marketing service that allows providers of products, solutions and services for IT, Telecom and Media industries to find new customers and to reach the right groups of decision makers in their specific market segments.
About sectorial application of semantic technologies, in the justice arena, Metatomix expanded its partner program with the addition of Alliance Renewable Technologies, a leading systems integrator in the justice and public safety sector. Alliance joins Metatomix’s partner program at the silver level and will resell Metatomix’s suite of justice data sharing solutions to its customers. Semantic Technoligies with military purposes is named too.
About Semantic Technologies utilization by products in the market. After nearly a year in development and $24 million in venture capital, Siri is finally ready to bring its personal assistant to the iPhone.
Other clues about the success of Semantic Technologies is the fact that IBM wants to patent Semantic Web Tag Cloud (see figure), or that venture capital Dawn Capital further invests $2.5m into Cognitive Match, a London based company specialized in artificial intelligence, learning mathematics, psychology and semantic technologies to match individuals with content online
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Good news about Siri. The semantic web can be remunerative.
me and my friends have been into venture capital investments and so far the income is great.~,~