evri - search less. understand more?

Posted by admin on June 27, 2009 under Semantic |

Over the past year i’ve been looking into  the ‘semantic web‘ and what applications us mere mortals can use to tag content, autolink content and so on without getting into ontologies, triples, RDF,SPARQL endpoints and other terms I still dont understand. I bought and tried reading a introduction book but fell asleep …. 

I’ve played with the Open Calais and more recently the AlchemyAPI from Orchestr8 also. Both are very interesting but dont quite meet my needs. I use a Zemanta plugin to autotag this blog content too.

So what are my needs? Well, Sports media is my business and especially Football ( the Soccer version!). Most of the products/apis out there are very US based and tend to work well on US Sports but ignore or have limited data on the rest of the world.

The other day i found a new player called evri by accident. I plugged in a few BBC Football ‘gossip’ stories about possible player transfers and low and behold i was amazed to see how good the results were.

I have added an evri sidebar to this blog and when I get some decent content for it search on then it should be great!   

evri - search less. understand more? Well yes, at first impressions its better for my purposes than the others. Hopefully i’ll get stuck into their API too and see how that pans out.