The Jeff Pulver Blog: Twitter gets a Semantic Web boost from Headup.com

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March 09, 2009

Twitter gets a Semantic Web boost from Headup.com

At my recent breakfast in Tel Aviv, I was pleasantly surprised to meet some friends from the SemantiNet team. SemanitNet has been part of my Israeli hi-tech startup portfolio since early 2007 and I've been a friend of the company since I first met Tal Muskal in 2006. At the time I was impressed by their goal of delivering on the promise of the Semantic Web, and after seeing the progress they already have made with Headup, their Semantic Web Firefox plug-in, I am now really impressed.

What I like even more is that I am not the only one. Last week, Professor James Hendler (@jahendler), one of the worlds’ foremost Semantic Web researchers, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s co-author on one of the most important articles on the subject, said the following about Headup: "I'm rapidly becoming a big fan of @headup - very cool little app! Great example of "a little semantics goes a long way!"

I think Headup’s boost for Twitter is a great example for this exact point.

On Twitter it seems a little semantics goes a long way

twitter is a part of my life. Friends can find me on twitter at various hours just about every day of the year. I liked twitter so much that I also became an investor but sometimes I wish it was easier to discover more about people than is currently possible under the existing limitations of the Twitter platform. This is where Headup’s Twitter boost really shines by revealing a wealth of information about members of the twitter community that would be nearly impossible to discover in any other way.

Headup discovers a wealth of content about members of the twitter community. In this case an interview with my friend Chris Brogan.

Headup’s Semantic Web engine scouts the web in real-time taking only seconds to retrieve other Twitter users’ social network identities and the content they’ve uploaded.

So how does it work? To find out yourself:

1. Visit http://Headup.com and install the plug-in.
2. Go to Twitter.
3. See how people’s user-names are now marked by dashed orange underlines?
This means Headup is correctly installed on your computer.

Headup’s icon appears above @chrisbrogan when I hover my mouse above Chris's user-name

4. Hover above underlined user-names and Headup’s icon will appear.
5. Click the icon to launch the Headup panel.

and that's it. :)

One last note - my friends at SemantiNet recommend that to really get the most from Headup that you personalize it with to the social services you’re subscribed to. This enables Headup to retrieve a greater amount of information about the people you’re in touch with and improves it’s understanding of your interests.

I've said this before and I will say it again. Of all the startup companies I’ve met with and know about in Israel, I believe SemantiNet has what it takes to be a leader in the world of the Semantic Web and one day may be known as the Google of Israel.

Disclosure: As mentioned above, I am one of the early investors in both SemantiNet and in twitter. I use both their platforms and wanted to share something I thought would be of interest to my friends.

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Tags: SemantiNet, Social Media, Tal Muskal, Semantic Search, twitter, Jeff Pulver

Posted by jeff on March 9, 2009 08:36 AM | Permalink

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Hi Jeff,
Wow. What a neat plug-in. This really allows people to see the possibility of the Semantic web.

Thanks!

Posted by: Joe Lima at March 11, 2009 03:19 PM

Hi Jeff,

Great post and product. I think that headup is doing a great job in making associations around the web. I recently started seeing it more as the "intuitive web" rather the semantic web.

I wrote about head up here:
Eight good reasons for using headup (Firefox add-on)
http://webnomena.com/2009/01/25/eight-good-reasons-for-using-headup-firefox-add-on/

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Looks like they've enabled that functionality for a number of SM sites: Facebook, FriendFeed, last.fm etc. as well as Google and more.

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