http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2008/07/09/further-on-the-trend-following-thing/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2008/07/09/further-on-the-trend-following-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Gareth Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:14:45 +0000 http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/?p=22#comment-24 Agreed, Silobreaker looks really cool and I wish they had some kind of API so that the value they create could be reused somehow; another interesting company in the same space is Powerset who create a semantically derived index on top of Wikipedia and can answer questions like “who is brad pit married to”, this one is less interesting to me since I’m looking at commercial/sales focused applications currently rather than mass market advertising driven things. Another small company I came across was Artesian, they claim to have a stack that allows businesses and users to create their own semantically derived indexes on top of selected content, this seems to address the main issues I have with the other two solutions, i.e. that the indexes know nothing about “you”, this is a really interesting area IMO which I need to investigate more; it seems unclear to me which is the best way to go for business applications Agreed, Silobreaker looks really cool and I wish they had some kind of API so that the value they create could be reused somehow; another interesting company in the same space is Powerset who create a semantically derived index on top of Wikipedia and can answer questions like “who is brad pit married to”, this one is less interesting to me since I’m looking at commercial/sales focused applications currently rather than mass market advertising driven things. Another small company I came across was Artesian, they claim to have a stack that allows businesses and users to create their own semantically derived indexes on top of selected content, this seems to address the main issues I have with the other two solutions, i.e. that the indexes know nothing about “you”, this is a really interesting area IMO which I need to investigate more; it seems unclear to me which is the best way to go for business applications

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