http://tripletalk.wordpress.com Semantic Web and more by Peter Mika Mon, 12 May 2008 10:06:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are arriving to SemTech early this year or you happen to live in the Bay Area, come by the Yahoo! campus for the SearchMonkey launch party on May 15 (Thursday): you will have a chance to learn about the Monkey, talk to developers and product managers, and enjoy ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/searchmonkey-and-semtech/ I wanted to share with you the excitement of Yahoo's announcement today of our support for the Semantic Web effort through the SearchMonkey project. More details in this Yahoo! Search blog article and in reports at TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and SearchEngineLand. Exciting times for me personally, for Yahoo! and for the Semantic ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/yahoo-and-the-semantic-web/ David Karger commented on my blog, suggesting a combination of microsearch and Simile Exhibit. A great idea, I'll follow up on that in a minute. I'm sure many of you have ideas of your own for other mashups that require searching for metadata. For this reason I just wanted ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/building-on-top-of-microsearch/ Inside Yahoo I'm often the first one to tell people about the wonders of the Semantic Web. Typically, one of the first questions I get is: "but just how much of this metadata is out there?" And more often than I like to admit, my answer is not better ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/microsearch/ At the beginning of December, Jim and I have sent the following email to SW related mailing lists around the World, introducing the idea of this Challenge. The reaction we got was immense: we had close to 50 people subscribing to the mailing list within a 24 hour time-frame, with ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/billion-triples-challenge-intro/ I've started a blog to communicate my thoughts and ideas about the Semantic Web and discuss current events such as the Billion Triples Challenge I'm co-organizing with Jim Hendler for ISWC 2008. Note that this is not an official blog of my employer, Yahoo! Research. However, I will share ... http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/a-blog/