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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 [...]
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 [...]
