Archive for April, 2009

TextWise will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA. from June 16th – 17th. The entire conference runs from June 14th – 18th.

TextWise will be joined by esteemed panelists from Hakia, Powerset (Microsoft Live Search) and RiverGlass.  The session is titled Semantic Search Beyond RDF.

Please join us with this special discount of either a FREE Exhibitor Pass or $300 off a full-access pass. Click here for details and the discount code.

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Our ISP has alerted us of a scheduled maintenance period from 2 – 6am EST, Thursday 4/23. You may experience a brief outage or two during this time. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or problems, please contact support@semantichacker.com.

On December 31, 2008, TextWise released an exciting update to their core API services. As we communicated at that time, our original API service was scheduled to be decommissioned.  As of May 27, 2009, calls to the original API service will fail unless changes to your application code and API URL are made.

WHAT’S NEW WITH THE API?

New API calls for:

  • Matching signatures to content indexes (Wikipedia, our News and Blog collection, Amazon products, YouTube videos and Photos)
  • Concept tags derived from Semantic Signatures
  • Text categorization

Usage reporting – see exactly how much you have used per the API license agreement

HOW THIS UPGRADE IMPACTS YOU:

To prepare you for this migration, we have put together a Migration Guide (http://www.semantichacker.com/support/migration-guide) that will take you through the minimal requirements needed to keep your application running. The new API is already available, so you can modify and test your application or even enhance it using the exciting new API calls available to you now.

Again, the current API will be permanently decommissioned on May 27, 2009.

    If you have any questions or concerns regarding this process, please contact us or on the Forum. We will try our best to help you resolve any issues you may encounter within 24 hours.