Guest post by Joe Heath

Below are 8 sites I thought worth sharing, they’re some of the most talked about sites at the moment. Interestingly, it looks like the sites making all the waves are those seeking to filter and sort the web, to make it more useful and relevant for me and you. In short, we built the web, we filled it with lots of stuff, people started to feel overwhelmed by too much stuff and now the people who built it are trying to organise it better. read full post »

(cross-posted from Made by Many)

(the logo on the left is cooler…)

Everyone’s going on about the Semantic Web. It’s tipped to be the big thing in 2008. It’s all you can hear in the cafes and bars. Semantic this… NLP-that… It’s hard to get a word in edge-ways, and don’t even bother going out if all you want to talk about is simple keyword extraction. Keywords don’t tell you sh*t. (thanks Mark)

Until now, all the talk about a new age of context and meaning has been largely that, just talk. And unless you could afford big technology and million dollar license fees this stuff was way out of reach for the little guy. The arrival of two interesting new services indicates that this may now be changing quite rapidly. People are excited. They talk about it at dinner parties. It’s palpable.

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