Searching for the next web generation: 16 Futuristic Services

If you are new to Semantic Web please read for a more extensive description the wikipedia semantic entry, also check the standards that may state the semantic web at W3C.

Technology leaders predict that its usage will define it, just like the web 2.0 claimed its stake on the world and altogether its name and meaning. Semantic stands for “the meaning of” and its preview and predictions about its complexity makes the statement somehow fall short.

Certainly 2008 might not be the year when semantic take the plunge and meet the very high expectations of a hungry community of Technology followers… it’s been stated that the Semantic Web lack of a real need and deep purpose and indeed its ambitious and promising technology would go through a hard time before tunning into real and useful services.

We collected some great services that are leading us to the new web frontier.

1. Adaptive Blue, a different approach to the semantic futuristic approach, to use semantic as a enhancement of our everyday routine tasks.

2. Artificial Memory, a very complex approach of semantics, structure its technology by pointing to associated documents by knowledge.

3. Clear Forest, an enterprise solution that collects data and provides a solution to bring together pure text and data information put together in a easy researchable approach.

4. Facebook, After creating not only a place for network with your friends, but further changing the approach of how external services interact with an independent platform, the Beacon keep us updated on what our friends are doing that including our own moves.

5. Freebase, a very useful approach service that compile information into a shared giant database.

6. Hakia, probably the first service that is taking semantic into a more complex search results, and taking not only cached results into the picture but dynamic content that would probably won’t show on any traditional search results.