BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea

BlogTalk 2009
The 6th Int’l Conf. on Social Software
September 1st and 2nd, 2009
Jeju Island, Korea
Overview
Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its focus on social software, while remaining committed to the diverse [...]

Nice video shows how hidden structured data from the Drupal content management system can lead to semantic search

(Cross-posted at johnbreslin.com/blog.)
Via Drupal creator Dries Buytaert’s post entitled RDFa and Drupal and Stéphane Corlosquet’s post about RDFa and Drupal examples and use cases, there is a really cool video that demonstrates how the structured data that is available in many Drupal deployments (but is difficult to leverage due to HTML representations) can be exposed [...]

Simplified Technorati search

I think I’m probably not alone when I say that Technorati may have put too much in at once when they decided to move from focussing on blogs to many other types of tagged content some time ago.
Luckily, they also implemented a stripped-down version for those who remember and just want to use Technorati [...]

Baagz semantic search and social networking combo

Via Computerworld, I’ve been reading up on a forthcoming social semantic website called Baagz. As presented recently at DEMOfall, Baagz is a new service from French company Exalead that aims to bring together semantic search and social networking.
How does it work? Users gather their interests into a bag (called a Baag, hence [...]