Additional businesses in this field:
Lookery profile similar concept uses public data to create user profiles
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/lookery
Optional Semantic APIs:
Peer39 http://www.peer39.com/
opencalais http://www.opencalais.com/
Advertising Aggregators:
247 real media NY http://www.247realmedia.com/EN-US/
Openad engine: http://www.openx.org/ (corrected)
Resolute Digital: http://resoluted.com/blogs/media/open-ad-servers/
May consider sezwho to find early adopter/influencers and base some advertising on their status updates
http://js-kit.com/comments/sezwho/
Implementation that bypasses where data comes from: Browser extension (that’s what zemanta’s approach has been)
Vlad 4:14 pm on June 26, 2009 Permalink
So no direct competitors?
messel 4:21 pm on June 26, 2009 Permalink
Not yet Vlad. It’s a relatively new concept in a highly competitive space (internet advertising). Businesses only invest in advertising they can get reliable statistics for results. I suppose for adoption purposes the prototype will need further investment (outside) and I’ll do my best to sell the early adopting tech bloggers (I think they’ll love it based on geek factor, what will make it blow up is if it’s as effective as I suspect it may for click through/action).