Josh Dilworth

Next Tuesday the 23rd we’re going to be gathering over pizza and beer at Conjunctured to make sure that every Austin-based company is fully represented in Crunchbase.

Please join us!

Yes, I PR’ed my own wedding.

A shout out to Martha Irvine, the reporter who wrote the story, and Charlie Neibergall, the photographer, who rock.

And if this isn’t enough to convince you to visit Iowa, I don’t know what will;)

More pics here if you wanna see ‘em.

Major congrats are in order to Andraz and team. This is a huge bet in favor of the usefulness of semantic technology in automating everyday processes. Zeanta is also an example of a company that doesn’t run around spewing the term “semantic” left and right — but that rather lets its (wonderful) service do the talking.

We had Andraz as a guest on Falken’s Maze a few months ago, and I’m tickled to see the company find continued success.

Dave Needle has a really good piece up summarizing the Future of the Web panel at DEMO. Some really newsworthy things were said by top brass from Yahoo, MSFT and Google. And, Howard Bloom was…freakin’ hilarious.

Disclosure: Twine is a client.

I just got off the phone with a friend who is a journalist and he told me that this video gave the best explanation he’s heard yet, and that there’s still a lot of people out there who are struggling to understand what Semantic Web really means, especially given that “semantic” has been reappropriated (and misused) as a marketing term.

I wanted to share it again, therefore. It features Nova Spivack of Twine, from a talk he gave at this year’s NextWeb conference.

Disclosure: Twine is a client.