The FOWA Expo 2007 (Future of Web Applications) is currently taking place in London, UK. This tradeshow regroups web companies from all around the world such as Yahoo, Facebook, Flickr… Giving a good preview of what the Internet is going to bring in the next few months.
Exalead exhibits at FOWA to present BAAGZ.
Here’s a video of Exalead CEO François Bourdoncle presenting Baagz at DEMOfall 2007.
Exalead is proud to present the first semantic search service that lets people find, organize, share and enhance content online. Along with the introduction of the new BAAGZ search service, Exalead launches a special by-invitation-only beta session.
With BAAGZ, Exalead has been selected along with 70 other companies to take part in the prestigious DEMOFall in San Diego that is taking place right now.
WHAT IS BAAGZ?
BAAGZ is a new form of social network that can be described as a live network of shared interests. It allows users (we like to call them “baagerz”) to easily organize their favorite things and topics online into individual “baagz.” While BAAGZ offers a simple way for users to organize their favorite online content, it also helps to educate BAAGZ about what is of interest to its users, or baagerz, and connect them with related content or other baagerz who are experts on a given topic.
HOW DOES BAAGZ WORK?
Shared interests are characterized by the public content contained within individual folders, called baagz, that act as shortcuts to your favorite Web sites, articles, pictures, videos, RSS feeds and notes.
Exalead’s expertise in indexing the Semantic Web (www.exalead.com) is at the core of BAAGZ. BAAGZ uses its semantic description of every Web site stored in a baag to determine what a given baag is about – whether or not a given Web site is specifically tagged by baagerz.
Our development team has been hard at work on BAAGZ for over a year and represents more than a decade of R&D. BAAGZ combines the best of search technology and aims to capture the very essence of what is referred to as Web 2.0.
For the moment, BAAGZ is available in beta version (Firefox2+) and by invitation only. For more information or to request your invitation to the BAAGZ private beta, please visit www.baagz.com.
Many websites are already talking about BAAGZ, including Mashable, Paul Gillin’s blog and Econtentmag.
You can also read the entire Press Release.
Exalead has become a partner in the ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) initiative, a joint project of the World Association of Newspapers, the International Publishers Association and the European Publishers Council.
Working with leading publishers, search engines and other technical and commercial partners, APAC’s aim is to develop a global, open and flexible standard for communicating permissions information relating to the access and use of content on the Internet.
As a global provider of search software for business and the Web, Exalead is actively participating in the ACAP pilot project.
“Exalead offers the technical capacity, capability and enthusiasm to ensure the pilot project succeeds and to enable ACAP to demonstrate a fully workable proposal by the final project conference, which is to be held on 29 November in New York,” said Gavin O’Reilly, president of World Association of Newspapers, one of the pilot’s sponsors.
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