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Freebase.
Freebase, created by Metaweb Technologies, is an open database of the world's information. It's built by the community and for the community – free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.
Already, Freebase covers millions of topics in hundreds of categories. Drawing from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives, it contains structured information on many popular topics, including movies, music, people and locations – all reconciled and freely available via an open API. This information is supplemented by the efforts of a passionate global community of users who are working together to add structured information on everything from philosophy to European railway stations to the chemical properties of common food ingredients.
By structuring the world's data in this manner, the Freebase community is creating a global resource that will one day allow people and machines everywhere to access information far more easily and quickly than they can today.
Twine.
Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
Powered by semantic understanding, Twine automatically organizes information, learns about your interests and makes connections and recommendations. The more you use Twine, the better it understands your interests and the more useful it becomes.
Organize. As you add information to Twine, it is automatically tagged so that you and others can find it more easily.
Share. Connect with individuals and groups, gather and share content, and engage in discussions around your interests.
Discover. Twine connects you with new people, content and products that match your interests, and also helps other people discover you and your contributions.
AdaptiveBlue.
Since the Browser is the hub of all our interactions with the web, we believe that Smart Browsing should be something that your regular browser helps you do. In answer to that, we developed extension technology called BlueOrganizer that adds semantics and personalization support to Firefox.
Three main ingredients of Smart Browsing are:
Structured Content: When content is structured, it means that your browser focuses on the things in the Web pages instead of the pages themselves. Books, music, movies, wine, travel destinations, video games and other everyday things should come into the spotlight.
Shortcuts: Because the browser "understands" the semantics of everyday things, it will help you get to the information faster. When looking at a book, you can find more books by the same author. When looking at a movie on Amazon you can instantly rent it from Netflix and when looking at music album on AOL you can create a radio station on Pandora. This is the power of shortcuts.
Personalization: A Smarter Web is Personalized Web. Personalization is what helps you navigate through the myriad of choices. For example, if you rent movies from Netflix and your friend from Blockbuster, your shortcuts should be different. If you choose Last.fm and your friend likes Pandora, the browser should know this. And if you like buying from Amazon the Browser should help you do that instantly from any page on the web. This is the power of personalization.
ClearForest.
ClearForest, a Reuters company, provides text-driven business intelligence solutions that supply the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. Our award-winning solutions offer manufacturers, publishers, federal, chemical & financial service organizations critical links to situational context buried in text for use in Business Intelligence [BI] systems.
Adding this situational context to enterprise data systems empowers organizations to: uncover hidden relationships, evaluate events, discover unforeseen patterns and facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution. Applying this intelligence enables organizations to avoid loss of profit margins due to preventable write-offs, customer churn, legal settlements, warranty claims or inefficient product development cycles.
In short, we enable Global 5000 companies to make better business decisions by turning large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.
Powerset.
Powerset is a Silicon Valley company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing.
Our unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search.
By making search more natural and intuitive, Powerset is fundamentally changing how we search the web, and delivering higher quality results.
Powerset's search engine is currently under development. Please check back in the near future for more information about our technology and for signing up for our alpha.
True Knowledge.
True Knowledge is an internet search company based in Cambridge, England.
Our technology addresses one of the fundamental problems in internet search: namely that computers (unlike humans) cannot understand the content of web pages. As a result, finding information in the early 21st century still involves a process of guessing keywords that may appear in an appropriate web page and hoping that a search engine retrieves a document with the desired information sufficiently near the top of the list as to be found reasonably quickly. Simply asking a search engine for the desired information in the most natural way possible doesn't produce a direct response.
Our technology sidesteps this fundamental problem by providing a way for the world's knowledge to be represented in a form that computers can understand and process, and for ordinary internet users to be able to add to this knowledge base without having to understand how the knowledge is represented.
Because knowledge stored within our technology can be processed and understood by computers, direct and perfect answers to questions on any topic are now possible. Furthermore, our technology provides a place on the internet where computers and other automated systems can query the widest possible domain of knowledge and receive a response in a form they can process.
Our initial products are:
* a search engine-like consumer site which can answer questions, be used to add knowledge and also be used just like a conventional search engine.
* an API product for computer-generated queries.
Hakia.
Hakia is a general purpose "semantic" search engine, dedicated to quality search experience.
Hakia is focused on bringing quality results via its semantic search technology. Today's search engines bring popular results via statistical ranking methods. Popular results are not always quality results, and the searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information.
Quality result satisfies three criteria simultaneously: It (1) comes from credible sources (verticals) recommended by librarians, (2) is the most recent information available, and (3) is absolutely relevant to the query.
Semantic search technology enables accurate retrieval of information via concept/meaning match. It is very effective, and perhaps the only method, in application to credible and dynamic content. Because most of the credible and dynamic content are statistically flat (infertile) for popularity algorithms to work effectively beyond common queries.
