Using Open Calais to extract terms from Reuters news articles, this breaks news down into people, places, organisations etc, and then aggregates stories at these levels, bringing the most popular stories to the top. Great prototype, lots of scope here...

Mozilla's new creation - effectively introducing shortcuts to browser operations, allowing the user to mash-up parts of the web.

a good round-up of where we're at and the pros of using pragmatic means to mine the [newly] metadata rich world.

"Semantic discovery is a way to find information without knowing explicitly what you're looking for BUT "you know it when you see it." " - - there are some BIG assumptions there and on first pass it fails the big one. I didn't know when I saw it!

one of those "to read" things.

brain hurts. nice stuff here about querying relationships.