The Semantic Puzzle» textwise http://blog.semantic-web.at Open World Assumptions Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Calais, Zemanta or textwise? http://blog.semantic-web.at/2009/07/07/calais-zemanta-or-textwise/ http://blog.semantic-web.at/2009/07/07/calais-zemanta-or-textwise/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:37:13 +0000 Andreas Blumauer http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=1035 Continue reading →]]> Beside W3C´s Linked Data Initiative, it were semantic services like Calais, Zemanta or textwise which have made the advantages of the Semantic Web visible for a broader community in the last few months.

Each of those services follow a slightly different approach, but in a nutshell: They all offer an API to provide “similarity search” around social media or also to enhance enterprise information management.

Like a magic bullet those services offer a relief from information overflow and seem to become kind of a “semantic web killer application“.

If you´re familiar with one or many of those services, drop a comment and let us know, what you´ve been experienced so far, or also if you can think of any applications or further developments you would like to see around these kind of services.

If you are not familiar with this stuff, for a quick demo go to

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