Web 2.0 as a concept many flaws in it, but one of these is not the “the dictatorship of the presentation layer” some claim it to be; a nice turn of phrase perhaps— but the whole fallacy starts when AJAX (one of the cornerstones of Web 2.0) is denigr
Offering our attention data in a futures market would look like this. Companies would pay now for access later to attention data from people who intend to buy a compact car in California, or who are outdoor recreation enthusiasts with a certain income lev
- Record any web radio station or streaming music service. Get perfectly separated high quality MP3 files, automatically tagged with the artist and song title.
Recent Developments on the Internet: The common characteristic, which all these systems share, is that the approach is "bottom-up" rather than "top-down". This means that in these environments content and structure are not determined by professional, corp
“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes
A webapp for keeping contacts organized, organizing relationships, getting things done, helping those in leadership roles track the people and committments in their lives. Designed for ministry leaders, but possibly applicable to all leaders in service t
The Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) enters its third year as the pre-eminent meeting place for the growing community of developers, entrepreneurs, technology architects and researchers who are building software and systems based on semantic techn
The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in Semantic Web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, Semantic
Not long after he invented and unleashed the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee realized that the limit to the effectiveness of the World Wide Web would be that while billions of documents could be linked and indexed, they relied on human interpretation to d
Downloadable articles and audio files from the 2006 Semantic Technology Conference held in San Jose, CA. Material is geared toward enterprise and business use of semantic web technologies, although not limited to that topic.
The Semantic Web, where machines are able to read the contents of documents as readily as people can, now has all the standards and technologies it needs to succeed, according to W3C director Tim Berners-Lee. Speaking at the World Wide Web 2006 conferen
We have a limited “Semantic Web” appearing without the complex technologies that have been developed for it. Will the trend continue? Can it, using existing technologies, or will developers eventually ‘find’ RDF, OWL and SPARQL? Should the appeara
The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services using semantic annotations. The intent of this challenge is to explo
The challenge that the Yahoos and Microsofts of the world have is that they are still beholden to the older corporate model of the world, and tend to denigrate their user generated content as being so much fluff. Thus when the Web 2.0 explosion occurred,
Business management, government management, and military defense management...This illustration charts uses of the predicted "semantic web" by enterprise and government.