seekda continues to expand its technological leadership in the field of Web Service and e-commerce technologies through its research projects. Together with the Service-Finder consortium, which consist of prominent research organizations such as CEFRIEL, Ontoprise and University of Sheffield we would like to announce the release of the alpha version of the Service-Finder portal for Web Service discovery. Service-Finder project aims at developing a platform for service discovery in which Web Services are embedded in a Web 2.0 environment. Service-Finder portal has been build up on a comparable set of public Web Service descriptions as the ones available at seekda portal. The prototype provides extensions with semantic annotations (e.g. categorization) and Web 2.0 features. On the current alpha version of the portal users can search for services by doing free-text search or by browsing categories and/or tags. Once the Service-Finder technology is consolidated, seekda aims at integrating it into its own portal.
