Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released.
From an interview with Nova Spivack (CEO of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine) we can argue four main points..........
ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a non-proprietary, global permissions tool that puts content owners in control of their online content in a way that is conducive to developing new online business models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and to maximizing the benefits of the relationship with search engines.
"Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.... "
Two days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University.
The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find some highlights I transcripted from his speech.