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Ok, so I didn’t try ALL the top Semantic web applications from Read Write Web as I promised (still making my way through). But here’s what I got so far:
1. Zemanta:
It works! It actually helps you blog. I installed it in my WP blog and I like how it detects words [...]

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Charlene Li sparked a bit of controversy by crowdsourcing her Logo using CrowdSPRING. Designers protested that services like CrowdSpring and 99Designs take work away from them and that you can’t get the same level of quality. Charlene’s colleague, Jeremiah Owyang, commented on the controversy on his blog and defended Charlene’s action pointing out [...]

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For the last three months I’ve been reading and exploring the field of design interactions as an elective class in the MCDM program. As I usually do I have a hard time studying things in isolation and I’m always looking for the connection points across experiences.
In this case it struck me [...]

“Semantic, shemantics” says Alan Wilensky in reaction to today’s ReadWriteweb post: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008.  I have to agree with him that these apps just all seem to process existing data in different ways to create a new node in the network rather than to deliver content that is relevant to me [...]