May 2008 Digest

• Article on the Open Ontology Repository (OOR).
  The OOR is an initiative from the Ontolog Community. If worked out well, this could be an influential project, especially if combined with web services.
  


• SezWho Acquires Tejit
  - Tejit's semantic-analysis engine, which uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and semantic matching technology to identify topics, sentiments and entities present in web content.
  


• Dow Jones Introduces Enhanced Business Semantic Management Tool, Synaptica
  


• ReadWriteWeb on YaHoo! SearchMonkey
  


• Apache Lucene
  integrates Teragram Linguistic Tools.
  


• Franz inc.
  unveils the AllegroGraph 64-bit RDFStore.
  
  
• Google Health goes public beta
  


• Nuance launches web-based BI tool for clinical use
  
  


• Yahoo SearchMonkey
  opens it's doors to developers.
  


• TopQuadrant hires Jeremy Carroll as Chief Product Architect
  Jeremy Carroll is the lead architect of the Jena Toolkit
  


• Microsoft may show interest in Powerset
  


• Powerset is Live
  


• Following Yahoo & Digg, myspace
  plans to implement RDFa/Microformats (hardly the semantic web, but nevertheless).
  


• Talis Podcast - Peter Mika
  of Yahoo! Research, covering SearchMonkey & semantics.
  


• New website for browsing ontologies among which the basic formal ontology (BFO)