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- Epic PAWS Meetup: Presenters announced! 2:19pm Apr 2
- Call for Presenters: Epic PAWS Meetup 3:52pm Mar 19
- Try our new Ubiquity commands for Powerset and Live Search 3:55pm Feb 24
We are thrilled to announce the lineup for the next Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Meetup sponsored by Microsoft on April 14 from 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. in our Mountain View offices. RSVP today and bring a friend...
The next Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Meetup will be hosted by Microsoft. The format will be many short demos of semantically inclined products and technologies. Got a unique product based on semantic technology...
Powerset Ubiquity is a research project from Mozilla Labs that has a lot in common with Powerset: the goal of the project is to reinvent the user interface through natural language. Ubiquity uses a command-line interface to allow you to get tasks done quicker by typing in exactly what you want. If you’re a Firefox user, you can download Ubiquity here and try it out.
Powerset Powerset is excited to have written a few Ubiquity commands that you might find useful. To install the commands, you’ll need to first have installed Ubiquity and then go to Powerset.com and install the command using the install toolbar at the top of your browser.
Ubiquity is a research project from Mozilla Labs that has a lot in common with Powerset: the goal of the project is to reinvent the user interface through natural language. Ubiquity uses a command-line interface to allow you to get tasks done quicker by typing in exactly what you want...
Like many features at Powerset, our highlighting feature came about through the ingenuity of one of our engineers. Ian was having a discussion about circular polarized filters for camera lenses with his brother...
From October 20-22 Powerset will be attending the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, CA...
Powerset is excited to be participating in Web 3.0, held in Santa Clara from October 16-17, 2008. Scott Prevost, Powerset’s general manager, will be keynoting in the morning on Friday, where he’ll describe The Road to Semantic Search. Also, Mark Johnson, a Powerset Program Manager, will be ho...
Powerset officially became a part of Microsoft a little over a month ago and we’ve already completed our first few integration projects: Freebase Answers, improved captions for Wikipedia results, and new related searches using our Factz engine . These projects were meant to be achievable in 30...
Powerset+Microsoft hosted another Lunch 2.0 this year. We seved delicious food, including sliders and cupcakes. There were lots of people from many different companies present and we all celebrated the Microsoft acquisition of Powerset with our commerative shot glasses. Andrew Mager of ZD Ne...
Powerset has always suspected that college students love Powerset because it’s such a great way to search and browse Wikipedia content. However, the only evidence we had was from Powerset parents and glowing feedback e-mails from .edu domains. Last week, we conducted a study of 200 college stu...
On Friday, August 1st at 5:15 p.m., Powerset officially became part of the Microsoft family. Though the deal was announced on July 1, 2008, there were a few more i’s to be dotted and t’s to be crossed. That’s all finished and the deal is done. Our employees are excited to be a part of Microsof...
We’re excited to announce officially that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Powerset. Powerset has always been a small company with big dreams, with the ultimate goal of changing the way humans interact with computers through language. ...
Thanks to Kayla for setting up some Powerset flair at: http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/viewflair.php?id=2447628&ts=createfeed
A big thanks to everyone who participated in our Factz contest to win a Powerset t-shirt! It was a lot of fun to see people’s motivation and creativity in finding Factz. Here are some of our favorite blog posts. ...
