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The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web

My interview by JupiterMedia back in May is below. The original article can be found at http://www.semanticweb.com/article.php/3749916.
The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web
May 29, 2008
By Jennifer Zaino
No doubt about it, the technology behind the semantic web is truly disruptive. The challenge for companies will be to figure out how to provide applications based on it [...]

December 9th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Barcode September 11, Lost and Found

Many of you know that I am one of the survivors of September 11th, escaping the WTC North Tower when New York City was attacked.
But I never told you the amazing effort of our city’s recovery.
On August 26th 2004, just 2 weeks shy of the annual anniversary, NYPD called me. An officer told me [...]

September 11th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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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


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