MetaWeb purchased by Google, announced on the Google blog Friday. Good stuff here about how to make the web more understandable and less complex. Using “Entities” or tags, the concept helps to organize data under “people, places and things” rather than tied to keywords, which may have multiple meanings. The video spells this out very [...]
Tom Tague isn’t content to let an article just be an article. “How do I take a chunk of text,” he asked, “and turn it into a chunk of data?” He was speaking Thursday night at a panel discussion hosted by Hacks/Hackers, a San Francisco-based group that bridges the worlds of journalism and engineering. Coinciding [...]
Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, [...]