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The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...

Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Scaling your Web 2.0 app with caching

Danny Ayers has an interesting post detailing why and how caching can be used on the Web to meet scaling requirements for Web 2.0 services. Danny wrote: "If the Web is the platform, then as much of the data that isn’t entirely application-specific must be exposed...

Tags: Web, Danny Ayers, Danny

Blog posts 2005-12-07

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New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big

Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic...

Tags: David Provost, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Crunchbase meets the Semantic Web

Technology web site TechCrunch is one of those staples (like ZDNet, of course) to which we all turn for news and analysis on the companies shaping the Web. Their CrunchBase directory provides a wealth of information on the companies and people featured in their stories (and elsewhere, as it's editable...

Tags: Job, API, Crunchbase, Semantic Web, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008

The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Looking for a dominant Semantic Web search engine

Despite the continuing efforts of Microsoft, Yahoo! and others, Google remains the dominant horizontal search engine for most people, most of the time. In the United States, comScore reports 58.5% of searches during January were via a Google property. In the Semantic Web space, search is far less established and...

Tags: Search Engine, Semantic Web, Search, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Commercial uses of the Semantic Web at WWW2008 ?

This year's World Wide Web conference (WWW2008) is rapidly approaching, and all over the planet web researchers are grappling with the Chinese visa application process ahead of their trip to Beijing. In contrast to a corporate event like Semantic Technology, the World Wide Web conferences tend to...

Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Welcome to the Semantic Web

Hello, and welcome to this latest offering from the ZDNet blogging stable. My name is Paul Miller, and I'm delighted that ZDNet have invited me to start a blog with them that can concentrate on bringing you insight and analysis on the Semantic Web. I'm grateful to...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Demonstrating the value of SPARQL to the Semantic Web

I wrote a piece on Nodalities last week, to draw readers' attention to the news that SPARQL had reached the dizzy heights of 'Recommendation'; the highest accolade that those guardians of the web's evolution, W3C, can award to a technology, and the closest that the group comes to...

Tags: Software, Web, Database, SPARQL, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-01-24

System One - a Google for your Intranet!

System One is a promising new Enterprise search engine and knowledge management app, System One is like a Google for your intranet, with note-taking and collaboration which I discovered recently at the Supernova conference. It searches across many types of Enterprise and Web data - including emails, documents, database records,...

Tags: System

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Why Google is extending RSS

Jeff Jarvis picked up on my post the other day about GData, Is GData knocking down Google's walled gardens, or enabling a new kind of portal? Google's new syndication protocol which is an extension of both RSS and Atom. Like most people, Jeff isn't sure what this means - and...

Tags: Google Inc., GData

Blog posts 2006-04-21

Anatomy of a Gesture

I'm in New York for some events that I may or may not be able to talk about. As a result I won't be attending an event in California that is clearly off the record. The good news is that I can talk freely about that event since I won't...

Tags: Dare

Blog posts 2005-12-11

Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?

Kendall Clark from XML.com posted an interesting article called Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web. In it he talks about a new technology called SPARQL, which is an RDF query language and protocol. It's apparently an SQL for the Semantic Web. Kendall's post proposes that Web 2.0 be "wrapped, morphed,...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Semantic Web

Blog posts 2005-09-18