December 8th, 2008
Semantic Web Gang looks back at 2008; favours both infrastructure and lightweight apps
Looking back over 2008, the Semantic Web Gang found much to discuss in their last podcast of the year.
A year that began with a $42million investment in Metaweb continued with Yahoo!’s support for semantic technologies, Microsoft’s purchase of Powerset, and the release of much-hyped Twine. We also saw a plethora of events focussed on Semantic Technologies of all stripes, with a refreshing growth in those targeted toward a business audience supplementing the already rich stream of academic and technical gatherings.
Toward the end of the podcast Gang members consider their personal semantic technology highlights from 2008, and end up pretty evenly split in considering the relative importance of infrastructural underpinnings such as Calais and SearchMonkey on the one hand, and light weight user-facing applications such as Zemanta and Glue on the other.
What were your highlights for the year?
Paul Miller provides consultancy and analysis services at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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