Headup – The Semantic Web Realized

I read about Headup on TechCrunch’s, Crunchbase several weeks ago but didn’t install the Firefox plugin until recently. While this application still needs work, I like where it’s headed.
Headup is a semantic web Firefox addon that presents the user with text and rich media content related to the objects and terms it [...]

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Wired’s Kevin Kelly Divines The Future of The Web

Wired Magazine’s Kevin Kelly recently gave a very thoughtful presentation on the future of the Web at The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Mr. Kelly envisions a world where the semantic Web reins supreme and usage revolves around three areas:

The Cloud
Databases
Sharing

The semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in [...]

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Corporate Speak vs. Employee Speak: You Be The Judge

Marketers looking for examples of the power and influence of social media and consumer generated content need to look no further than Twine.
Twine is a Web site that helps users collect online content — videos, photos, articles, Web pages, products — and brings it all together by topic, so they can have it in one [...]

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Most Online Retailers Still Don’t Get It

Have you ever noticed that online shopping is nothing (and I mean nothing) like the real thing?
One can argue that this is a victory for consumers – that the terrestrial retail model has been broken for a long time (e.g. long lines, attitude from the service clerk, lack of expert guidance, etc.); however, I’d suggest [...]

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