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Calais 4.0 is the latest version of the semantic web service and open Api launched a year ago. It enables publishers to add semantic layers to their blogging content - categorizing people, places, events and so on. It also enables publishers to connect to the Linked Data standards promoted over the last few years by guys like Berners-Lee.

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..........

The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources.

"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.... "

* About Victor Godot Creative New Media Semantic Web: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes Posted on March 4, 2009 Filed Under online search, online video, search engine, semantic web, social media, video | Here's an excellent, concise presentation by Tom Llube explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum. Transcription below: A revolution is happening in the structure of the web itself. It's gentle and it's powerful, it's like tai-chi: you hardly know that is happening, but when it hits, it has a massive impact.

"A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it's called hNews. The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to disply these metadata in a user-friendly format. ....."

Here's a great video presentation I found about the Semantic Web; I transcripted all the main parts here below. Text transcription: The Internet as we know it today is in an extending success: more than 1.300.000.000 (1,3 billions) people are connected to the Web across the globe. In 2006, 161 EB of informations were created or replicated world wide. IDC estimates the increase over 6 times this metric by 2010 - to 988 EB, or to 1 ZB a year.......