The moment a system stops explaining and starts commanding, it becomes a bureaucrat. Corporate history is littered with bureaucrats no one invited, but no one can remove them.

This post is the second in a multi-part series about the future of marketing and the role that semantic, context and intent will have on how we experience the internet. So the search of yesteryear is ...

Researchers hope that soon web technology will get to the point where, as you drive into town, an application spots a space in a nearby car park, calculates how long and what route to get there, and ...

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...