veeeb uses Ontonaut as its semantic extraction provider now. Ontonaut is a new service developed by Top 21 GmbH and Attensity which ultimate goal it is to make the WWW more valuable by improving content linking.

Ontonaut provides a API for recognizing and extracting names, cities, companies and more from your text. Different from other services like opencalais.com Ontonaut not only supports the German language but is also best in it! One reason for that is that the technologie behind Ontonaut has been supported by the German government (Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie – BMWi)

If you want to know more about Ontonaut you can visit them on the THESEUS-Congress in Berlin next week!  ( 13.2.-15.2. )

Have fun using veeeb and Ontonaut!

I am looking forward to the conference to see how others are using SMILA.

Have a look at SMILA.

Christoph

But thats not all. You will find this view very similar to the image detail view, where you can get detailed information about a found image. As with the image view you can cycle through the topics without closing the view.
On some extracted topics from your text there are multiple possible matches from freebase, like for instance you have the word “Obama” in your text. For this you can find several terms on freebase, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama or Barack Obama Sr. You can access those terms directly on the extracted topics with all their information.

Now that we have the basics covered, let´s digg in to the cool stuff.
If you have people in your text and those people have a Twitter account, you can view their last tweets right in the editor, to see what they were up to in the last time.
With that you can enrich your text with on the minute information about your subject.

But thats not all. For locations like cities or countries we have included a Google Maps view. (To use this feature in your blog you have to get a Google Maps API Key for the domain you are running your blog on. Follow to signup)

The feedback of our customers is very important to us. Based on their remarks we completely redesigned the Look&Feel of the first editor. The result is very appealing as we might say.

The veeeb semantic editor is now much more adjusted to redactional work. Writing an article on a bright background is a lot more fun. Semantic topcis of the text are now much better organized and easier to use. Searching for media is better seperated from writing but always in an easy access.

Just try it on  www.veeeb.com

veeeb semantic editor in new Look&Feel

in 2011 we will be changing a lot. The veeeb editor will get a new elegant and userfriendly design and will be implemented in a very promising portal around writing and selling articles. I would not tell to much, but there will be more information in february, so stay tuned

Until then have a look at these interesting links, which will keep you busy until the release of the new veeeb editor:

• memolane.com
  still beta – your personal web timeline: view and share your entire online life in one place
• semantic-api.com
  a very interessting semantic API which extracts expressions of opinions
• semanticengineland article
  “The Big List: 168 Marketing Trends, Predictions & Resolutions For 2011” on searchengineland.com

Have a nice start in 2011.

With the new Amazon plugin you can search for products to buy from Amazon.com. You can add them to your text by drag&drop and they are displayed as links so that your readers can also by them.

To give you the full range of providers for high quality Royalty-Free images we have added the service of Dreamstime.com to our plugin repository. Now you can browse another 9,500,000 images, buy the ones you like and add them to your blog posts.

We have also made quiet a big change in how you work with our editor. The known veeeb tab is still there, but when you click it, you´re in for a treat. To use our editor in its full glory, we´ve expanded it over the complete page so that you can concentrate on writing your post and enrich it with the images you like. With that change your are now able to switch between the veeeb editor and the standard editors back and forth, without having to relead the veeeb editor like before.

Thats it for the week.

Cheers

To fully utilize these two new plugins we´ve included a new feature into the editor. It is now possible to convert a selected word into a hyperlink. Kind of like in the WordPress editor. Plus you can drag&drop your found results from the Google plugins directly into your text. So no more copy&paste a link from your browsers adressline into the text.

You can of course edit your links afterwards. To do so, position the cursor over a link that you want to edit and click the button “Create/Edit Link” displayed under the link.

The following window lets you enter your link destination, set the open method and test out your link.

As always you can grab the plugin from the wordpress page or you can use the update function in the “Plugins” section of your blog.

We have updated the WordPress plugin and added the ability to search the media library from your blog! This makes it incredibly easy to add your own images to the text you are writing.

Just click the WordPress logo in the veeebeditor to activate it, if it isn´t already. Now you can search your library and simply drag the images into your text. Super fast and easy, right?

To get the latest version, go to our plugin page and download the new version, or if you have already installed the veeebeditor you can update it directly in your blog.

I really liked Rob DiCiucci‘s article about the current different semantic services. He covers more than just entity extraction in his article, e.g. the API of freebase, which veeeb is using as well or zemanta, which is more a API for suggesting relevant content directly (interessting, though…)

Regarding entity extraction the best known free API services right now seem to be

• http://www.alchemyAPI.com
• http://www.opencalais.com
• http://www.evri.com

In order to evaluate the services it is usefull to have the results on one screen directly. Thats why we build an easy Flex GUI where you can just do that.  It provides 2 lists of text – english and german. Doubleclicking an entry will execute the semantic services with the text of random news articles I found, but you can also type or copy&paste your own text.

Try it here:

entity extraction comparison tool

Remark: opencalais does not work with german text right now. So we have to proxy the requests via Google Translate to get some results. So do not blame opencalais for disturbing results for german text. But anyway – it works pretty good

I will post about the results of our comparison soon.

If you have any suggestions – let me know.

Happy extracting!

Christoph Diefenthal

The veeeb wordpress plugin analyzes your text while writing and helps you search for related content in different channels like google images, flickr, youtube and gettyimages (more to come) You can add pictures and videos with a simple drag and drop into your text.
You do not have to look up the relevant keywords in your text. They are found for you. By just clicking you search for related content in different channels. With veeeb you save a lot of time while writing your article.

Learn more about veeeb.
Download it here at wordpress.org

Here a little overview:

1. Easy Handling – integrated in your blog as a tab next to the classic editors “visual” and “html”

Integrated in your wordpress blog as tab

2. concept extractor: veeeb learns about your text via opencalais

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opencalais extracts the most valuable concepts

3. information wizard: get more information about you concepts via freebase

information about everything via freebase

4. one click search : search for images and videos via plugged in channels

search for related images and media

5. drag&drop media : drag and drop them into your article

drag and drop media into your article

…and there it is:

a article enriched with related media via veeeb

Have fun!