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Semantic FAIL!

Tim — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:23:57 +0000

Consider the following image I came across on Digg:

Cold War all over again? Not really – it’s obvious what happened here. But I think this is a great example of how the semantic web will wrap people, places, and things with context, and these types of issues will become a thing of the past!

Instead of “Georgia”, a semantic agent will see something like http://dbpedia.org/page/Georgia_(country) or http://dbpedia.org/page/Georgia_(U.S._state) and thus have an understanding of how to differentiate the two.

OpenCalais at Linked Data Planet – NYC

Tim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:51 +0000

OpenCalais has made a strong showing here at Linked Data Planet – New York City. I’m currently sitting in their lunch presentation demonstrating the various tools they provide, and they’re quite impressive. Essentially, OpenCalais is a suite of various tools that will take plain-text and automatically embed metadata (such as Microformats) into it.

This blog is now “OpenCalais-enabled”. They have a Wordpress plugin called Tagaroo which reads your Wordpress blog entry as you type it, and automatically suggests tags for it. It also pulls down Flickr images based on these tags so they can be included with the entry. More in-depth review of these tools after the presentation!

The start of something beautiful. Maybe.

Tim — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:21:45 +0000

Welcome to RAM and Whiskey! After weeks of abuse from colleagues that I didn’t have a technology blog, I caved and decided to create one.

My IT street-cred was at stake…and I couldn’t idly sit by and watch it wither away.

I have loads of neat stuff going on in my life, that I’m anxious to post here. Please bear with me as I finalize the page design. Thanks!