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Schema.org – Semantic HTML

Schema.org – Semantic HTML

By Sam Langdon on June 8, 2011

Google, Bing and Yahoo! have recently joined forces to work with schema.org to agree on a convention designed to improve understanding of the structure of different types of data (e.g. books, films, recipes) on websites so they can be shown in search engine result pages. Data Types There are a large set of new data [...]

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The Future of the Web – Connected APIs

By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010

Robert Scoble recently called a new mobile tool: Siri “the most useful thing I’ve seen this year”. It glues together a number of different APIs to allow users to potentially find information about pretty much anything, once the right APIs are hooked up, as explained in this interview with Siri’s CEO. This fascinates me, as [...]

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SEO and the Semantic Web – how RDFa and HTML 5 will impact search

SEO and the Semantic Web – how RDFa and HTML 5 will impact search

By Sam Langdon on January 31, 2010

In 2005 I attended a lecture at the British Computer Society from Prof. Ian Horrocks about the Semantic Web. If you’ve not heard the term before, the Semantic Web refers to the meaning based categorisation of websites and related information using a common standard, allowing websites and the information contained to be found easily. It [...]

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