Archive for August, 2008
Has the Cloud failed before prime-time?
I was thinking about this, is the premise of ‘the cloud’ as an infrastructure failed even before it got well out of the gate?
I am referring to the slew of outages the last day’s and weeks of some high profile infrastructures like Amazon S3 and Google. I always thought Googles infrastructure was untouchable. But it [...]
Aching to know where that little pain in your back comes from? Hakia’s got your back.
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You know what I am talking about right? Little red spot on your arm, wheezing sounds in your ear, you don’t want to- but you do it anyway- you look it up online, and are probably worst of because you did….Well, you have got one illness alright- it even has a scary sounding [...]
Sensebot. Automated summaries of search results.
Ran into Sensebot yesterday-first impression was ‘fantastic’ and ‘creepy’
What sensebot does is it gives you summarized results from your search query. The search is performed by all or any of the major search engines. Sensebot takes those top results and after analysis returns summaries. So if your in a hurry- need quick rundowns of concise [...]
Web 3.0 is only partly about semantics
There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues are tied to your inability to understand what they’re saying or the bills you’re paying.
Gender and the semantic web.
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Read Write Web writes about if the Semantic Web will have a gender. One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it.
As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? “Objective” descriptions of the [...]
Tagaroo
When writing blog posts- and in other experiments in semantic search I use services that analysis text for me and returns additional content. Services like Zemanta and Open Calais. Both services offer about the same features. Zemanta has got more markup and article features then Open Calais though. Both have auto tagging and images. So [...]
How to fix Social media’s Data Portability issues.
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Michelle Greer felt that the issue of data portability was important enough to step up and lead a discussion at SocialMedia Camp.
The semantic web can fix the issue of data portability in social media. How? By using associations to group different profiles together. It also allows people to own their data instead of being [...]
interview with the New York Times about The Semantic Web
An interesting interview with Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at the New York Times.
He talks about mobile content , rich anotation of NYT content, the Semantic web and
ambigious computing in particular.
Online Dating Goes Web 3.0 with MyLove2be.com
Online dating has long been held out as the classic example of web 2.0 for its user interactions and community creation. This is now all changing as the transformation of web 2.0 services are consolidated into all inclusive community enterprise solutions.
Case in point www.myLove2be.com has just announced the beta release of [...]
Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center
This shift to Web-based applications has generated two powerful waves so far. Now, we are seeing a third wave—one that we are calling Web 3.0—and it may prove to be the most significant and disruptive yet to the traditional software industry.
Marc Benioff, chairmain and CEO of salesforce.com talks about the next wave of innovations which [...]
10 semantic companies to follow
The article has a bit of age to it, it’s from november 2007- however it is still very valid.
What happened in the mean time from november until now? Powerset has gotten aquired by Microsoft, Freebase had a huge round of new funding as did Twine as did the rest. It is as clear as glass- Web 3 and Semantic web technology is catching fire fast…
Struct3.com, chronicals of the Next Web.
I have been starting to write a huge intro into web3 and semantic web and Next Gen Web stuff as an intro for this blog.
But I scrapped it <silent cry>
I think we all can find out what these things are for ourselves right? For instance on web 1.0 sites where you can look [...]
