We have been at CeBIT this year to present Cluug.com - the semantic personal information management system that helps you link everything.

Here is the long story:
https://www.gnowsis.com/about/blog/2010/03/25/it-was-great-cebit-2010

Short:

• its a semantic web startup and you don't see RDF in the GUI! Also, the product does something useful - helping you write down your associations and save time when finding stuff. We did something right
• pictures
• it was awesome. nice parties, excellent business connections
• and Bernhard Schandl and the team got Cluug.com running on time
• and Martina Gallova made all the marketing activities happen like a charm!

Thanks to you who visited, I wish God blesses our company and we can go on providing this product to you for the next years.

Thats it - we are up and aliveb in the area of the Semantic Web. The company Semantium from Germany is offering MSemantic, a GoodRelations based Search Engine Optimziation (SEO) tool for the Magento web shop system.



This means that you can now pay someone to help you get higher google ranks using Semantic Web technology. Yeah! Although my personal view on SEO is "the modern way of spam", I see that companies need it and are willing to pay for it. And also, its a good indicator that a technology is accepted when it can be used for SEO.

I wish Uwe Stoll a good start with Semantium.

As mostly no one of you may know, gnowsis.com is moving out of our offices in two days, because inits.at, our incubation company, is moving to nicer offices, and so are we.

But that is not why this blog post: its instead about "I am legend - the Yoghurt". As we are moving, the refrigerator of the startup companies also has to be emptied. And as in any shared kitchen (as in shared appartments), this means legendary food items coming to light. And here, startups have to leave after 18 months, so we have a lot of history in this fridge. I will not talk about the obviously molding italian pasta in glasses from 2008 or the piccolo champagne bottle I just nicked (it has "Smart" written on it and is dated 2004, but sparkling wine can't go bad I guess, so probably thanks to the smarties, har har). But instead I will talk of the untouchable "I am legend - the Yoghurt".

Of course, as old Burning-Man-use-what-you-find enthousiast, I was cherry-picking through the leftovers to find some stash for myself. After picking up an excellent Red Bull Can which was already glued to the shelf by dried-up-whatever-liquid (and expired in 2009, so safe for me to enjoy) and behind glasses from 2006, there I found it: "I am legend".



A Yoghurt saying it went bad in Dezember, but I don't know which year. Here is a picture of its heavily dented top, which I leave for someone else to pierce.

btw: our new address will be: Bürocenter Wienzeile
Graumanngasse 7, Stiege B, Stock 5, Tür 5
A-1150 Wien, Österreich. Thats here:
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KOffice has an extension for supporting RDF in its ODF format. As all is XML, this is an excellent way to go. Read Ben Martin's post about it.

https://monkeyiq.blogspot.com/2010/01/koffice-and-rdf-say-it-with-style.html

Some excerpts:
The ODF document format lets you store RDF/XML data inside the document file, which in turn lets both a human reader and a computer know about things that comprise an office document. You can refer to a person, place, or time and have the computer know what you are saying without having to resort to heuristics.

Of course, you can drag and drop items from the RDF docker into kaddressbook and korganizer. These pieces of information should be able to be moved into and out of an ODF file using KOffice without thinking about it. You want to add Fred to the text, pick him up from your kaddressbook and drop him into the RDF docker. Your default contact stylesheet is then used to insert some text into the document at the current cursor location showing you the Fred contact. Quick and simple... Lets make RDF something everybody uses but nobody needs to learn about (unless they want to).

It also features a (silent) video:

KOffice and RDF: Say it with Style... from Ben Martin on Vimeo.

Nachdem wir kräftig auf der CeBIT gerockt haben, grüße von dem besten Kumpel mit dem man trinken kann: Mec Allemand.



Mec Allemand ist der brillen-nerd-pop-indiehouse shit der stunde .. footage online!

https://mecallemand.de/videos/



Wenn wir genug fans in Wien zusammenbekommen, kommen die Jungs zu uns. Also, brav Videos gucken und twittern was die finger hergeben.

So, after many months of setting up a company, we have our second public appearance: gnowsis.com is going to show up at CeBIT. We will be giving demos of our first product "cluug.com" and give away alpha accounts for selected users. There will also be a great video about it.

We have been working many months to get a minimum viable product running. That means, we are going to offer first the core feature of semantic personal information management: links. From the vast amount of things we learned from the NEPOMUK EU project, the first thing that is commercially available from us are links between websites. That gives you the chance to try out the thing online and us the chance to give you more features every month.

So, to learn more: come to CeBIT 2010. I and Martina Gallova are going to be at the gnowsis.com booth as part of the DFKI booth in Hall 9, booth B45. We will also be giving a future talk on Thursday, 4th March, at 17:00 in Hall 9. And we hope to be able to show people what we do at Bitkom's innovator pitch (you can also wish us good blessing for winning a price there).

I am very happy with the forthcoming of the company so far. Everything took a bit longer as expected, but the results are nice. Between December and January, we rehauled the user interace (kudos to Bernhard Schandl and the development team for leading this). We are negotiating partner deals with interesting companies to bring the semantic desktop and cluug.com to you as soon as possible.

So, I won't go into details, this leaves plenty of things to talk about at our booth at CeBIT. If you want to meet us - please please write me a mail before. We are going to be very busy and it would be good if we can make an appointment beforehand. I can also organize you a free entry ticket for the meeting, if you need one.

Especially if you are a journalist of professional blogger, it is always better to plan meetings beforehand. At the DFKI booth there is always press around and politicians creating buzz, if you want a calm moment, maybe take care and book one.

Of course, there will be Mozart Choccolate Balls at the booth for you (my traditional talk give-away), we also give away some buttons, but most important - very very rare Alpha User invitation codes.

(btw: ESTC 2009 and getting a price at innocation camp there was our first appearance)