Breakneck Growth: A More Certain, But Less Private Future?
Date: Tuesday, December 09 @ 15:02:30 UTC
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LBS Semantic - Wikepedia Image The Consumer Electronics Association have today announced a projected 30% growth in GPS/LBS related holiday sales this season.

With GPS devices sold worldwide predicted to at least triple over the next 3 years, Location Based Services (LBS), coupled with semantic technology, are on the first leg of what I strongly believe will be an exceptional journey that will bring about a culturally profound impact and educational changes undreamed of a generation ago.

SemantiNet, a pioneer in the development of semantic technology, announced yesterday that its headup semantic Web plugin now supports the new Fire Eagle and BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) technologies from Yahoo!. Fire Eagle, a Yahoo! owned service, acts as a ‘clearinghouse’ for a user’s physical location information. After first obtaining the user's permission, other services and applications can update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API.

headup (currently only available for beta test) is a new plugin for the Firefox web browser that enables true semantic capabilities for the first time within any Web page. Its semantic engine retrieves specific real-time information of interest to individual users. It can then contextually ‘understand’ how dispersed data across the Web is related, and connect it in real time and alert the user via a ‘+’ symbol that there is additional information that is of interest (see video here).

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