BBC are huge on semantic ontologies. Ever since embarking on semantic web for Olympic sports they have grown and grown in their diverse uses of semantic ontologies within their content areas. The next revolution for news agencies and media outlets is interconnected ontology services via linked data. This should pave the way for sharing of breaking news and alerts to dissemination of information in a free flowing standardized manner allowing anyone to query anything on the web and keep connected to what is going on in the mist of events in the global web space. The ultimate in web of open semantic question/answering services becomes more realistic. In process, increasing more creative ways for semantic advertising. The more enriched natural language becomes the more realistic one can address sentiments within text and more realistic predictions and forecasts can be made. Already, we have access to Freebase and DBPedia as well as SentiWordNet. The process could even make cognitive robots with deep learning a more plausible ideal that can think and interpret events, emotions, perceptions to a finer level of granularity similar to a human and to be able to take more decisive action. Web Intelligence via Semantic Web is the next evolution in information dexterity for an organized and meaningful view of interpreting actionable data.
9 December 2013
7 December 2013
Ad Technology
Online Advertising is a big business and finding the right balance is key in optimization of returns to customer clicks. There is also an ever increasing competition in the marketplace between advertisers and publishers in which both converge to provide contextual ads that aim for targeting the right customers. The below diagram illustrates the segmentation of ad related brands in the internet space.
Semantic Web for Food
Yummly is an extraordinary web application that inspires to be the next Google for Food. The food search provides options for recipes and faceted searching via dietary, allergy, and taste requirements not to mention options to socially collaborate and organize. Perhaps, the model can be further extended for drinks and health. Maybe, even an option for localized search, social reviews, and e-commerce integration. There is still a lot that can be explored in the area of food via semantic web. However, there is a huge amount of competition out there with several sites already available in area of food. But, it is naturally a contextual model alternative to the current digital trends in music platforms. Semantic Web and Linked Data can truly transform the knowledge web into a global connected space with social interaction graphs and the meaning enrichment in natural language.
Nelson Mandela
The passing of Nelson Mandela brings historical significance in remembering the symbolic past as well as the future. In historical memory and the struggles against racism which brings South Africa towards a new beginning in both grief and gratitude. What is next for South Africa in the current economic times? How will the people cope? There is still a major hurdle that haunts the legacy with the escalating issues of crime, corruption, and economic inequality within the nation in heaps of echoing disintegration. A resource-rich nation may just see the rising sun and continue life into the distant future.
29 October 2013
New Shows On Network TV
It seems like Hollywood is going stale with lackluster movie productions while the network TV is going strong with an array of variety drama depicting the many social interactions. A few shows to note:
Person of Interest
Trophy Wife
Mom
Back in the Game
The Blacklist
Mr Selfridge
The Michael J Fox Show
Web TV and sites like Netflix are ultimately the next trend for the future as more and more entertainment is becoming socially connected and internet is becoming the more intricate part of daily life for many.
23 October 2013
Learning for Free
There are immense ways to learn online. However, at times, the options can be quite overwhelming if not dubious. Some options have arisen through university and publishing initiatives that are quite worthy of note. It seems online learning is an emerging growth market and with semantic web it can provide even more options. Virtual learning is on the rise to meet busy lives and to reach out globally. Some interesting learning sites are able to provide even full degrees through the online process. The following links are a few options that appear to be available from noteworthy institutions. Also, one of the more rather flexible and obvious choice is via youtube.
10 October 2013
Machine Learning
Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence which studies systems which are able to learn from a given set of data as examples. It can be split into two main strands supervised learning (classification) and unsupervised learning (clustering) and in some cases semi-supervised. Some algorithms don't fit into either category explicitly. For most applications learning algorithms need to be carefully tested against customized data for each specific context. Also, the choice of a learning algorithm is important as they all have merits and drawbacks. However, hybrid approaches are seen to generally work the best as they are able to reflect off each other in the reduction of error margins and increased accuracy of learning. Or, perhaps, one can head in the direction of deep learning. The following is a list of some useful books, tools, and free courses in the area.
Books:
Online Courses:
....and more, check out mloss.org
Alternative Tools (Not Free)
Precog
....and others.
Repositories of Datasets:
kdnuggets
Journal/Conference Communities:
AAAI Topics
ACM SIGKDD/IR
AITopicsResearch
OpenAccess
Repositories of Datasets:
kdnuggets
Journal/Conference Communities:
AAAI Topics
ACM SIGKDD/IR
AITopicsResearch
OpenAccess
8 October 2013
E-Commerce and Subscriptions
E-Commerce is big business on the web with more and more software as a service options cropping up daily in a multitude of offerings and points of integration. It seems flexibility to integrate is core to business functionality and speed to delivery. Restful services are making strides towards building a more resourceful and accessible web. However, the web is still a very disenchanted place with a lot to be done in terms of linking and connecting concepts and things in a meaningful way. GoodRelations is a vocabulary that takes ontologies for E-Commerce a step further towards knowledge discovery and metarepresentation.
Online subscription services are starting to make inroads towards a more barrier free integration for E-Commerce businesses with more flexible options for billing and transaction processing. One key aspect to note towards deciding on a integration provider is to always try to check their security policies and how PCI compliant are their services. A few key players that have sprung up with interesting options are below:
Stripe - very simple pricing model with no added fees making it cost-effective and easy to use
Zuora - providing added support for taxation, metrics, currencies and salesforce integration
Chargify - added benefits for coupons, free-trial periods, recurring/one-time transactions and refunds
Spreedly - payments platform with comprehensive services also provided with heroku add-on
Recurly - providing a full subscription commerce with analytics and a fast integration process
Braintree - easy to manage API with reasonable pricing with international payments support
Zuora - providing added support for taxation, metrics, currencies and salesforce integration
Chargify - added benefits for coupons, free-trial periods, recurring/one-time transactions and refunds
Spreedly - payments platform with comprehensive services also provided with heroku add-on
Recurly - providing a full subscription commerce with analytics and a fast integration process
Braintree - easy to manage API with reasonable pricing with international payments support
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