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Jupitermedia conference in NYC: June 17 - 18, 2008, New York City

LinkedDataPlanet -exploring the new web of connected data - Jupitermedia conference is here in NYC.
I’ll be speaking on - Best Practice in Semantic Systems Development:
This presentation explores the challenges and approaches for effective semantic systems development. We explore the ROI of semantic systems which are primarily based on agility, flexibility, and information quality. While best [...]

March 27th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Future of Technologies and the Power of Web 2.0

A week ago, I attended a round-table on the Future of Technology with well-known speakers: Esther Dyson, Jaron Lanier, Bernie Meyerson and Ken Perlin.
The discussion quickly focused around the phenomena of Web 2.0, with endless ramblings of the new found popularity with facebook, myspace, secondlife and blogging.  The echoes of concern around the table sound familiar [...]

December 26th, 2007 | Rachel Yager | 1 comment | Continued
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Taming the World Wide Web

My interview with BusinessWeek -
Companies can also use Semantic Web technologies to better respond to rapid change. Financial analysts and traders at Citigroup are inundated with information about fast-moving financial markets. So the banking powerhouse is looking at ways Semantic Web technologies can help extract valuable information, uncover trends, and generally help financial analysts, bankers, [...]

April 10th, 2007 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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A Smarter Web

My Semantic Web initiative was featured in MIT Technology Review:
One of the company’s early clients is Citigroup. The banking giant’s global head of capital markets and banking technology, Chris Augustin, is heading an initiative to use semantic technologies to organize and correlate information from diverse financial-data feeds. The goal is to help identify capital-market investment [...]

April 5th, 2007 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued