pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/150-red-star.jpg" /In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008./p pThis is the first in a series of posts we'll publish over December, listing our choices for strongthe top web products of the year/strong. Then at the end of December, we'll post a strongTop 100 list/strong - which we'll be promoting over 2009 and opening up at some point for public voting. Without further ado, let's jump into the top 10 Semantic Web products of 2008./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12774amp;cb=12774' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12774amp;n=12774' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pEarlier this month we posted a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch_one_year_later.php"an update to 10 Semantic Web applications/a that we have been tracking for a year now. Some of those make this list, as well as some from our follow-up post a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php"10 More Semantic Apps to Watch/a. We also have a couple of other products in this list, which for one reason or another didn't get mentioned in our watch-lists. /p pYou may disagree with our selections, so do tell us in the comments what you think./p pemNote: the products listed below are in no particular order/em/p h21. Yahoo! SearchMonkey/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo-purple-logo.jpg" width="140" height="103" border="0" align="left" /In May this year a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_searchmonkey_launches.php"Yahoo! launched an open developer platform for search/a called a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/"SearchMonkey/a. Yahoo hasn't had the happiest of years, but its willingness to innovate in search is to be commended. As we reported a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_apps_platform.php"at the Web 2.0 Expo/a in April, SearchMonkey is a component of a major overhaul at Yahoo! across all of its properties to "rewire" for the social graph and data portability. SearchMonkey allows developers to build applications on top of Yahoo! search, including allowing site owners to share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), and page extraction./p pWe think this is the best use of Semantic Web by an Internet bigco this year. So for that reason SearchMonkey makes our top 10 list. emRelated: a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semtech_making_the_web_searchable_searchmonkey.php"The Story of SearchMonkey/a/em./p h22. Powerset (acquired by Microsoft in '08)/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/pset-livesearch.png" align="right" /a href="http://www.powerset.com/"Powerset/a (see a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/exclusive_launch_of_powerlabs.php"our initial coverage here/a and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/powerset_and_hakia_quest_for_semantic_web.php"here/a) is a natural language search engine. It's fair to say that Powerset has had a great 2008, having been a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_acquires_powerset.php"acquired by Microsoft in July this year/a./p pAt the time of the acquisition, Powerset said that it needed a bigger partner to expand its product beyond its current state of only searching Wikipedia - something we had speculated about when the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rumor_microsoft_powerset.php"rumors of the acquisition first appeared/a. In its own statement, Microsoft stressed how useful Powerset's technology will be for improving Microsoft's own search products and to quot;take Search to the next level.quot; In a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_microsoft_powerset_beat_google.php"our analysis of the deal/a, we noted that it was a quot;bold play requiring exact executionquot; by Microsoft./p h23. Open Calais (Thomson Reuters)/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/calais_logo_mar08.gif" align="left" /At the end of 2007, ClearForest had been recently a href="http://www.clearforest.com/whatsnew/PRs.asp?year=2007amp;id=109"acquired by Reuters/a and at that point it had a Web Service and a Firefox extension. What a change a year brings! ClearForest went on to release a href="http://www.opencalais.com/"Calais/a, a toolkit of products that enable users to incorporate semantic functionality within their blog, content management system, website or application./p pSince a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reuters_calais.php"launching the Open Calais API/a early this year, over 6,000 developers have registered with it and the service is doing more than 1 million transactions a day. a href="http://www.opencalais.com/node/8823"Version 3.0 was released/a earlier this month and version 4 is expected by January 09./p h24. Dapper MashupAds/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/dapperlogo.jpg" align="right" /In November a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_mashupads_a_new_lease_o.php"we wrote about/a the recent improvement in a href="http://www.dapper.net/mashupads/"Dapper MashupAds/a, a product we first spotted a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_ads.php"over a year ago/a. The idea is that publishers can tell Dapper: this is the place on my web page where the title of a movie will appear, now serve up a banner ad that's related to whatever movie this page happens to be about. That could be movies, books, travel destinations - anything. We remarked that the UI for this has grown much more sophisticated in the past year. /p pThe company believes that its new ad network will provide monetary incentive for publishers to have their websites marked up semantically. We think this has plenty of promise, so it makes our year-end list./p h25. Hakia/h2 pimg border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/hakia_logo_mar07.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="73"a href="http://www.hakia.com/"Hakia/a is a search engine focusing on natural language processing methods to try and deliver 'meaningful' search results. Hakia attempts to analyze the concept of a search query, in particular by doing sentence analysis. Over the past year Hakia has been busy extending its reach - a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hakia_licenses_semantic_search.php"licensing its proprietary OntoSem technology/a to other companies in March and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hakia_announces_semantic_api.php"announcing a Semantic API/a in June. It was also one of the first companies to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_opens_its_search_engine.php"utilize Yahoo! BOSS/a, by integrating their semantic parsing with the Yahoo! search index./p pWe think Hakia has made good progress getting its technology into the hands of third parties and making use of Yahoo's broader index, so for that reason it's among our top 10 for the year./p !--nextpage-- h26. TripIt/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/tripit_logo_nov07.jpg" align="right" /a href="http://www.tripit.com/"Tripit/a is an app that manages your travel planning. With TripIt, you forward incoming bookings to plans@tripit.com and the system manages the rest./p pOver the past year TripIt has continued to iterate on its feature set - introducing LinkedIn integration, better mobile functionality, more social networking features, and other goodies. In short, it's user experience continues to rock!/p h27. BooRah/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/boorah_logo_sep08.png" alt="boorah_logo_sep08.png" align="left" /a href="http://boorah.com"BooRah/a is a restaurant review site that we first a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boorah_semantic_restaurant_reviews.php"reviewed/a earlier this year and has come on in leaps and bounds over 2008. BooRah uses semantic analysis and natural language processing to aggregate reviews from food blogs. Because of this, BooRah can recognize praise and criticism in these reviews and then rates restaurants accordingly. BooRah also gathers reviews from Citysearch, Tripadvisor and other large review sites./p pBooRah also a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boorah_launches_api.php"announced last month/a the availability of an a href="http://boorah.com/api.html"API/a that will allow other web sites and businesses to offer online reviews and ratings from BooRah to their customers. The API will surface most of BooRah's data about a given restaurant, including ratings, menus, discounts, and coupons./p h28. AdaptiveBlue/h2 pemstrongDisclosure:/strong AdaptiveBlue's founder Alex Iskold is a feature writer at RWW./em/p pimg border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/adaptiveblue_may07.png" align="right" width="238" height="56" /a href="http://www.adaptiveblue.com/"AdaptiveBlue/a are makers of the Firefox plugin, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blueorganizer_semantic_web.php"BlueOrganizer/a. As we wrote in January this year, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adaptive_blue_indigo.php"the basic idea behind BlueOrganizer/a is that it gives you added information about webpages you visit and offers useful links based on the subject matter./p pOver the past year the company has been working on a new product, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/put_the_social_web_in_context_with_glue.php"called Glue/a. Launched last month, Glue is a more social networking oriented version of BlueOrganizer - it connects you to your friends based around things like books, music, movies, stars, artists, stocks, wine, restaurants, and more. We think the company has diversified smartly in 2008, by integrating social networking and mobile functionality into its products./p h29. Zemanta/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/zlogo.gif"a href="http://www.zemanta.com"Zemanta/a is a blogging tool which a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zementa_brings_a_semantic_layer_to_blogs.php"harnesses semantic technology/a to add relevant content to your posts. While it didn't make either of our 'Semantic Apps to Watch' lists in November, a number of commenters pointed it out as something they use. In September we covered a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zemanta_releases_major_upgrade.php"a major upgrade to Zemanta's service/a, allowing users to specify the sources they want to see in the suggestions list that Zemanta provides. Users can now incorporate their own social networks, RSS feeds, and photos into their blog posts. As we noted, this makes Zemanta a lot more appealing to established bloggers who are in less need of suggestions and more in need of automation./p pZemanta's API is also being used by startups, including semantic bookmarking service Faviki - which we mentioned in a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php?p=2"our second Watch-list/a. So all up, we think Zemanta has done enough this year to be included in our top 10 list./p h210. UpTake/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/uptake-logo.jpg" width="150" height="44" border="0" align="right" /Semantic search startup a href="http://www.uptake.com/"UpTake/a (formerly Kango) aims to make the process of booking travel online easier. In a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_travel_search_uptake.php"our review in May/a, we explained that UpTake is a vertical search engine that has assembled what it says is the largest database of US hotels and activities - over 400,000 of them - from more than 1,000 different travel sites. Using a top-down approach, UpTake looks at its database of over 20 million reviews, opinions, and descriptions of hotels and activities in the US and semantically extracts information about those destinations. /p pAnd now please let us know in the comments what you think of our selections. 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I'm not a vindictive man. I believe in sweetness and light. But I would encourage anyone with a brain who travels, especially in these trying economic times, to buy an unlocked GSM phone and purchase pay as you go SIM cards or a MaxRoam SIM and a Rebel SIMCard for the iPhone 3G. I also encourage you to use Boingo for Wi-Fi roaming in airports and, increasingly, cities. Why? Because I just paid the equivalent to a flight to Paris and back just because I wanted to use Google Maps on the iPhone 3G to find my way around gay Pareee. Note that I understood the costs involved in roaming, but I think it's worth a post to warn business travellers of potential pitfalls and to call out a few good services I've used over the year (MaxRoam, Boingo) but, for various reasons, weren't able to help me on this trip.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/96515?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+EU+reaches+compromise+deal+on+car+emission+capsch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Travel+and+transport+environmental+impact%2CEnvironment%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CClimate+change+%28Environment%29%2CFossil+fuels+%28Environment%29%2CBusiness%2CAutomotive+industry+%28Business%29%2CEurope+%28Business%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Motoring%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CClimate+Change%2CEnergy%2CEthical+Livingc6=Ian+Traynorc7=2008_12_02c8=1127544c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Travel+and+transportc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FTravel+and+transport" width="1" height="1" //divpEuropean leaders have agreed a deal relaxing new rules to cut car pollution and reduce the penalties for the automotive industry if their vehicles continue to spew out high levels of carbon dioxide, while setting a more ambitious longer-term target for slashing emissions from new cars./ppUnder the deal reached by French officials and members of the European parliament late on Monday, the big European car companies will be given a longer leeway to reduce CO2 emissions from new cars while fines levied on those breaking the new law have been dramatically cut./ppGreen pressure groups denounced the deal as capitulation to the powerful car lobby led by Germany. But EU officials, MEPs and European governments hailed the agreement as a breakthrough in a crucial part of the EU's ambitious climate change package./pp"This is one of the most important results the EU is bringing to the [UN climate change] conference in Poznan," said Guido Sacconi, an Italian socialist MEP who led the negotiations with the French government that currently holds the EU presidency./ppMonday night's agreement comes the week before a major EU summit which is supposed to approve the European climate change package aimed at cutting greenhouse gases by 20% by 2020. 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Another thorny issue is over how to finance around a dozen pilot carbon capture and storage schemes, which would bury the emissions from coal-fired power stations./ppPoland and eight other central European countries are in an insurrectionary mood, complaining that wealthy western Europe should bear the brunt of the package, that their electricity bills will rocket if they sign up for the scheme and that Poland in particular is being unfairly penalised because 94% of its electricity is coal-based./ppItaly is also threatening to block agreement on the grounds that the package will prove too expensive at a time of economic recession. 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Linux Journal: "Alas, after years of travel and abuse the Omnibook's hard drive gasped its last breath of life. I had no fear for my data, the drive had been backed up, but clearly the time had come to buy a new portable computer."

Matthew Baldwin's 2008 Good Gift Game round-up is worth a look - some great games and fun reviews!

"In this game we are all epidemiologists, trying to synthesize vaccines to four deadly diseases that are rapidly spreading across the globe..." My God, can you even imagine a less-enticing introduction to a board game? It sounds so soporific that you'd expect to find pillows and PJs in the box. And yet Pandemic, perhaps the best family game of 2008, has exactly this premise: Travel the world, conduct research, and cure the virulent contagions that threaten mankind. As a cooperative game, Pandemic has the players working as a team, winning or losing as a group. And, like any good medical thriller, the tension in Pandemic builds geometrically: Halfway through you'll be high-fiving each other over your presumed victory; 15 minutes later you'll be sweating bullets as the situation grows increasingly dire. Despite a theme that screams "biochem exam!" Pandemic is the everyone-who-plays-it-loves-it game of the year. a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/2008_good_gift_games_roun.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/2008_good_gift_games_roun.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" / Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/2008_good_gift_games_roun.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments" /Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/toys_and_games/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more articles in Toys and Games/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F12%2F2008_good_gift_games_roun.htmltitle=2008%20Good%20Gift%20Games%20round-upbodytext=%20Matthew%20Baldwin%26apos%3Bs%202008%20Good%20Gift%20Game%20round-up%20is%20worth%20a%20look%20-%20some%20great%20games%20and%20fun%20reviews%21%20%26quot%3BIn%20this%20game%20we%20are%20all%20epidemiologists%2C%20trying%20to%20synthesize%20vaccines%20to%20four%20deadly%20diseases%20that%20are%20rapidly%20spreading%20across%20the...topic=tech_news" /Digg this!/a

See more at http://www.minimovies.org It's every director's nightmare: to return home without your material. This is exactly what happened to director Rob Smits. At the beginning of Room 2017 we find him in a hotel room in Taipei. He has just returned from a trip to the Yanomami Indians in the deep green of Venezuela. Few men with a camera had spent time with this fierce tribe before him. But money talks, even in the wildest jungle, and on the day of his departure all but one of Smits' tapes were confiscated. Drifting through Taipei, capturing cityscapes that express his disorientation in a way that reminds us of Wenders' documentary Tokyo-Ga, Smits has to ask himself the desperate question: 'How to make a film with no footageω' Room 2017 is not only a highly inventive MiniMovie about creating a visual story from scrap, but also a contemplation on identity in a world where escaping the rat race has become all but impossible. We see the truly nerve-wrecking story of a man trying to regain what he was out to lose in the first place. With Room 2017, Smits turns a hopeless failure into a brilliant film.

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While we were led to believe that Nanovision's MIMO line of diminutive LCDs would be stuck in South Korea for the foreseeable future, it appears that a trio of 'em are now shipping to North America. While not christened with any SideShow labeling, this 7-inch UM-710 mini monitor was designed to operate alongside your laptop and / or desktop monitor in order to give you more space for those little-but-necessary applications. Critics at Technabob were quite fond of the 800 x 480 display, noting that it was perfectly clear, incredibly useful and darn near impossible to live without after a solid hour of usage. Setup was relatively painless with Windows Vista, and OS X drivers (for Intel-based Macs, that is) were said to be bundled in as well. Sure, we'd prefer the $129.99 price tag to be a little lower, but if you can't stand to lug around a low-end 17-incher, this might not be a bad travel companion.

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Anti-government protesters are still occupying Bangkok’s two major airports. Thailand’s tourism officials have estimated that 240,000 passengers are still stranded in the country.

Initial flight schedules have been released for stranded passengers. Tourists who want to leave Thailand are embarking on a bus trip towards Malaysia even if they will have to pass Thailand’s southern provinces, where an insurgency exists.

As expected, Thailand’s highest Court found the ruling party guilty of electoral fraud. What is the implication of the order? The ruling party is disbanded, the Prime Minister could no longer hold public office, and other party leaders are barred from holding a public office for five years. A caretaker Cabinet is now in charge of Thailand, led by Deputy Prime Minister Chavarat Charnvirakul. Out of 34 cabinet ministers, only 12 have been banned from holding public offices. The remaining 22 can continue to govern until a new Cabinet is ready.

Deputy Prime Minister Chavarat Charnvirakul. Photo credit: Thai Photoblogs

Since the Prime Minister has stepped down already, will the protesters finally leave the airports? No. They do not want to recognize the authority of the caretaker Cabinet. So they remain in control of the airports. The protests continue.

It is clear by now that the airport siege orchestrated by the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is supported by Bangkok’s business elite and the military. There is no shortage of food for the more or less 15,000 PAD members in the airports. It was also reported that 5,000 blankets were donated to PAD a few days ago.

Even the police forces are not too determined to disperse the protesters. They seem contented to drop fliers from helicopters onto the Bangkok airports ordering PAD to leave the premises.

In his final message as Thailand’s leader, the ex-Prime Minister declared: “I did my best to administer the country.” Thailand Crisis reacts:

“By traveling to Peru for one week, in full national crisis, to attend a totally useless APEC meeting? By hidding in Chiang Mai, afraid of his own shadow, afraid of the army? Sure he did his very best. Thaksin’s brother-in-law will remain one of the dullest Thai Prime Minister ever.”

While the Court was delivering its decision, government supporters were outside the building. The crowd did not like the Court’s decision. Nirmal Ghosh observes:

“Disbelief, disappointment as dissolution handed down on PPP (People Power Party). Some people are boo-ing. The verdict is photocopied and distributed. One woman snatches it from another and crumples it, throws it on the ground & stamps on it. There is a sense of deflation in the crowd; they seem rudderless.”

The airport chaos is hurting Thailand’s tourism industry, even the economy of its neighbors. But it must be pointed out that ordinary persons, Thais and foreigners, are suffering more. Tourists are stranded; Bangkok residents are losing their jobs, especially those who are working in the airports. Thai Tales had a conversation with a travel agent:

“Today I walked past my travel agent on the way to lunch. She said that she would be paid half her salary this month and that the travel agency could close if the situation continued. But, she said, her plan was to sell iced coffee from a cart if she was no longer a travel agent.

“The fallout may indeed be incalculable, but when it’s people you know, people who make your life a bit easier by being good at their jobs and a bit more pleasant by just being in it, the costs suddenly become measurable and terrible.”

Nomadic Matt, who works in the airport, has lost his job:

“The damage is done though. There will be no high season this year and an expected 1 million people will be out of work because of the drop in tourism numbers (including me as I work at the airport!!!!). No one is going to want to come visit now. Most tourists are canceling their vacations and many that are interviewed just want to leave and never come back.”

To avoid being beaten by partisans, Richard Barrow could not wear red or yellow T-shirts outside his house. Red is the color of government supporters; and yellow is PAD’s color:

“I had to pop out just now in the car to go and run an errand in town. I forgot I was wearing a yellow shirt as today is Monday. I hadn't change after coming back from school. My neighbor was really scared for me and told me that I should go back and change first. Things are getting scary on the streets. Hardly anyone wears yellow these days. And if they do, then only on Mondays. Hardly any teacher at my school wears yellow in case they are associated with the PAD. Some parents told me that they told their children not to wear red or yellow when they go out any more. What my neighbor said to me is true. In particular if I go out late at night. This is how bad it is getting on the streets these days.”

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Traffic around the airport has deteriorated. Dreaming of Hanoi writes:

“My day-to-day life has not been affected. Work is normal, as is my social life...Our school is nearer to the airport, and it seemed like there was a mass exodus into Bangkok from that direction. The highway was clogged. We had to hop out of the taxi and walk all the way to Sukhumvit. We then took motorcycles home. This trip usually takes 30 mins, but on Friday night it took over an hour; I’m sure it took even longer for those who chose to sit and wait in the traffic.”

Recognizing that ordinary persons are suffering, Brit in Bangkok criticizes the elite:

“The ones who I feel sorry for though are the ‘average' Thais and not the wealthy Thais that are destroying this country and trying to take democracy away from normal people. Meanwhile, I'm making sure that all my purchases from now on will be from market stalls as much as possible, in an attempt to support every day Thais and not these wealthy as*holes that run this country. The less money these jokers have the better and, from now on, I'm going to make sure they get none of mine.”

Andrew Biggs has a message for both the politcians and protesters:

“What has happened to my beloved Thailand? If you truly love Thailand, you should not be wearing yellow or red. We are past that. It was cute six months ago but it is deadly now. It doesn’t matter if you hate or support the government. Let’s stop this madness. Somchai, resign. PAD, get out of the airport.”

Via Twitter, Bangkok residents are reacting to the latest updates:

Secadra: Protesters still there and the pro-gov aren't happy with the decision. Not much happens in a rush

Charlespulaski: Thai court orders ruling party dissolved What kind of Mickey Mouse Democracy is this? Can they even do that?

Nomadicmatt: Well, once they open up that damn airport, I'll be moving….where should i go?

Badtzrawks: excitement?!?! man, it doesnt seem that PAD will return us our airports loey ah' no sign!!

Noobam: I'm a PAD too but I don't agree with the strike at the airport at all. Esp. with bullshit govt like this

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