Over at our sister blog insite, the excellent Colin Meek has conducted the second interview in his series on the semantic web.
On the receiving end this time is Brooke Aker, founder of Acuity Software and Cipher Systems, who answers qs on semantic search, the failures of Web 2.0 and uses for Web 3.0.
More on the semantic web can be read in our feature ‘Web 3.0: what it means for journalists’.
Danish newspaper publishers are insisting the search engine and other sites only provide homepage links, rather than directing users to individual articles.
Following Colin Meek’s articles for Journalism.co.uk on how journalists can get the most out of the semantic web, below is Colin’s presentation from Saturday’s seminar in Oslo on using the social web:
Colin Meek interviews John Breslin, founder of the Semanticaly-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, about the semantic web, what it is and what it can do.
Video content from Telegraph.co.uk will now be available through video search engine blinkx, as part of a new partnership announced today.
The publisher will share advertising revenue from ‘contextually relevant’ ads placed next to the clips by blinkx, a release from the company said.
The site already features content from Getty Images and previously agreed content deals with the Guardian and Euronews.
Google’s labs have created a new audio search function, which allows the user to search the audio of video clips on YouTube by keyword, an announcement on the Official Google Blog has said.
GAudi, as the service has been dubbed, will produce a list of search results for a term and the times at which they occurred.
The most useful function: you can skip forward to the point in the clip at which your keyword crops up.
The audio indexing tool builds on Google’s launch of video-to-text transcription for political videos in YouTube’s politicians channel, as part of its US presidential election services.
Further to its addition of a Turkish version, Google News has launched English-language editions in nine African countries.
Sites for Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been set up, according to the Google News Blog.
Google News now has 52 editions worldwide.
Google News is now available in Turkish – bringing the total number of languages for the service up to 22.
The Turkish news site will crawl more than 400 sources for news articles, an announcement on the Google News Blog said.
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Mirror Group Newspapers has appointed search engine optimisation firm Mediarun to improve the search rankings of its shopping website.
Google’s recently launched online encyclopedia Knol is causing concern among other online publishers, who fear the company’s business as a search engine could come into conflict with its new ‘content publishing’ venture. Google maintains that it is not creating content – posts to Knol are signed and edited by individual users – but acting as a ‘conduit’ on the web.