10 Interesting Semantic Apps

11 Jan

Diagram for the LOD datasets

One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologies like RDF, OWL and other standards for metadata. Semantic Apps may use those technologies, but not necessarily [ReadWriteWeb 2007].

ReadWriteWeb has published a great list of 10 interesting semantic apps at the end of 2007. Now in year 2009 some of them have matured. Check out Freebase which let’s you access a huge space of linked open datasets.

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  • http://headup.com Mike Darnell

    Much of the information that we deliver on our addon is from freebase. You can try it out – download the addon (firefox only at this point) from http://headup.com

    We re still very much in beta so any feedback you have is much appreciated : )

    mike
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