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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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Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues: The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-07
JavaOne '08: Sun brings back Java applets: Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop.; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, JavaFX, Java applets, Java Applet, Java, Applet; Videos 2008-05-07
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

Play drums? How about in the office -- via USB?: Sure, this isn't the most serious item on this blog, but for the office worker who moonlights as a rocker, this is big news. May the cubicle emancipation begin! Synesthesia Mandala has hooked up with Tool drummer Danny Carey, of all people, to create...; Tags: Pad, USB, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Google should close down "evil" Performics business: Google should close down "evil" Performics businessChange in search has been noticeableI definitely noticed a change in search behavior in, say, the last 6 months with Google's search results. I agree the paid inclusions are polluting my search results. Alas, I still find it leaps and bounds better than the...; Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine optimization, Google Inc., Performics; Discussion threads 2008-03-18
Google should close down "evil" Performics business: Google's recent acquisition of ad network Doubleclick means it is also owner of Doubleclick's Performics, a leader in search engine optimization (SEO) services. Google is in constant battle with SEO companies because they go beyond its basic SEO rules and trick its algorithms into a higher rank for a web...; Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Performics, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-03-17
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
Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web': At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-03-03
YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses: It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...; Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-25
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
Opportunity computing?: Do you believe in opportunity computing? Etelos is offering this as a new buzzword. It basically describes a collection of hardware and software resources which can be quickly deployed out to users, as opportunity arises. This is contrasted with utility computing,...; Tags: Computing, Opportunity Computing, Etelos, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Google stops paying "domain tasters": Google stops paying "domain tasters"Danny Sullivan (searchengineland) reports that GOOG refuses to stop tastingDanny Sullivan has apparently been contacted by Google, Inc.Here's the quote:"Domain kiting is when someone registers a domain but never pays for it, then keeps registering it. Google said the policy will only apply to kiting. Those...; Tags: Google Inc., domain taster, domain; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
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
Skype "mood feature" security vulnerability reported: Skype "mood feature" security vulnerability reportedSkype Security BlogSkype provides a full description on the Security Blog of the vulnerability and the steps that have been taken to address the problem so it doesn't affect users - http://share.skype.com/sites/security/2008/01/skype_cross_zone_scripting_vul.htmlIt Should Be Noted . . .. . . that this bug only affects...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Skype Technologies S.A., security; Discussion threads 2008-01-18
OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation': When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format (CDF) was the heir-apparent to what it believed...; Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-29
Marc Andreesen digs into the Platform: As Danny highlights in the latest instalment of This Week's Semantic Web, Marc Andreessen has once more demonstrated that he's not content with co-authoring Mosaic, sneaking around in the 24 Hour Laundry and driving social networking Ning-style. Far from it, as he continues his recent practice of blogging thoughtfully on...; Tags: Developer, Facebook, Application, Platform, Marc Andreesen, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2007-11-01
Web 2.0 Summit - reflections after a trans-Atlantic flight and a day off!: Last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was pretty intense, all things considered. It's therefore lucky that this week is the Half Term school holiday in this particular corner of the UK, and peppered with days off to do various non-work things. ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2007-11-01