Bernhard Schandl's blog

I just got notice from Leo who is currently at the SemTech Innovate!2010 Pitch Slam that Gnowsis won the third place! The winners are Hypios followed by SmartLogic, congratulations to them!

One of the most powerful features of Cluug is its ability to relate (or link) your things. This can be done manually, or by using Cluug's powerful recommendation mechanism that suggests potentially interesting things, both from your personal data but also from public data sources. Watch how you can use relations and recommendations here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qrWvGdnfE

Cluug Tutorials is a series of screencasts that demonstrate useful features. See the first part about the Cluug bookmarklet here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS05rgCrw-M

During the upcoming weeks I will give some details about the internals of Cluug — how it works, and what's behind the scenes.

As you may have already seen, Cluug manages your things — these are the ones that represent your information. Everything may become a thing, starting from a Web page through an email message through a file on your hard disk. But not only digital stuff can become a thing. People, projects, locations, topics — everything you can imagine can become a thing.

You probably haven't realized it yet, but the value lost due to missing information is enormous. A 2005 study by M.K. Bergman reveals that

• it costs in average $150 to find a misfiled document;
• 7.5 percent of all documents are lost forever;
• the average knowledge worker spends 25% of their work time with searching for critical information; and
• organizations spend 5 to 15% of their total revenue (!) on handling documents.

We are very happy to announce that gnowsis.com has won the 3rd price at this year's ESTC Innovation Seedcamp! A big thank you to the jury, and congratulations to the winners Collibra and flimmit!

gnowsis.com will participate at the 2009 ESTC Innovation Seed Camp together with a fine selection of current Semantic Web-related startups from all over Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you there; if you want to meet us during the conference please contact us.

In a recent interview Tim Berners-Lee not only stated that HTTP URIs could have been designed without the double slashes at the beginning (with which I actually disagree: it adds uniqueness and recognizabillity to the whole thing), another important fact somehow gets missing in this interview: when asked to explain the Semantic Web in a nutshell, Tim gives concrete examples of a navigation system in your car that is aware of your calendar and knows where to take you to your next appointment.