April 2009 - Industry News

CNN Money thinks Web 2.0 companies are thrashing around looking for viable business models.  For their money, the smart bets are among the Web 3.0 startups. 

Click through for a discussion of the business pressures felt by web entrepreneurs in today's market.

The Semantic Web is everywhere now, even in fairly recondite fields of academic inquiry like ancient near East studies.

Click through to read about how some researchers are using Natrual Language Processing (NLP) and Social Network Analysis to address and unlock primary historical documents.

Paul Miller interviews Ivan Herman about his role as Semantic Web Activity Lead for the W3C and about the future of the Semantic Web in general.

Click through to read a set-up of this intriguing pod-cast. 

Tech Crunch reports on Google's effort to popularize Google Profile with vanity urls.

Click through and make your mind up about whether or not the web's current master of all information is also trying to create a directory of person-specific URIs for future tagging.