Just came across a different type of API just now… It’s the world’s first API for semantic discovery. From long time back, I used to dream about the API or some Web service which could easily understand the context and classify information using its special intelligence, today its reality. Yes guys, check out Semantic Hacker they have released API today itself. This API can return you the context / Semantic Signature of any information you enter.
See it yourself in action, I just pasted one article from my blog (tips for Indian service providers) [Right now it limits upto 2000 chars only – so that’s okay…]
And press submit
You can see how smartly, it has given out the categories to which this topic belongs. Even google search is not capable of doing that as of now, so I can confidently say that something like this is going to change the way of search. No more punishments of using wrong keywords, and no more would web stay as old boring thing – you would actually start interacting with it, like you do with other humans (in future..).
SemanticHacker offers API free of cost, which can be found here. Some of examples and tools here.
If you like to learn more about semantic web, you could start by this book called Programming Collective Intelligence by O’Reilly. I’ve already purchased a copy a month back but not started yet. I’ll post a review whenever I’m done with it. This is really nice book though from what I’ve seen in first few chapters.
-Abhimanyu Grover