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It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Find the answer to anything with StackExchange

When you hear the word "forum", what comes to mind? Ugly websites, lengthy wait times, dead ends, and 1999. The guys behind Stack Overflow have redefined the web forum into something interactive, easy-to-use, and surprisingly reactive. On Stack, you simply ask a question...

Tags: Web, Question, Questions, Chances, Channel Management, Web Site Development, CSS, Semantic Web, Development Tools, Marketing, Internet, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-09-27

Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web

RE: Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic WebIndeed the point is "how to make this work at Government scale" ?Data visualisation certainly helps. In fact this is the key in explaining what open data is all about. These are the flowers in TBL ted presentation. People don't care about boxes, they...

Tags: Moving Data.gov, Semantic Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web

Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers. ...

Tags: Government, Semantic Web, Podcasts, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

New open source Semantic Web store from Garlik capable of enterprise scale

An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of 'scale.' With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to...

Tags: Open Source, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Semantic Web Gang podcast looks back at the Semantic Technology Conference

June's episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event's highlights and...

Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web ConsortiumSemantic WebThe evolution of the web represents a new epoch for mankind if the data is made available in an accurate an palatable fashion. With infinite data available we essentially obtain a degree of knowledge never formerly imaginable, the...

Tags: Semantic Web, Ivan Herman, knowledge, W3C

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Simple Business Accounting 4.0.3 (Windows)

Designed for business owners, not accountants, OWL Simple Business Accounting SBA makes bookkeeping quick, easy and affordable. Unlike double entry systems, SBA's single entry method is intuitive. The customer designed interface reduces input time and errors. If you have used Dome books, you'll be right at home with SBA. Comprehensive...

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Windows, Error, Owl Software, Semantic Web, Internet

Software downloads 2009-06-22

Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?

Here's an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Social Web, Tim Berners Lee, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Semantic Web: To be or not to be

Semantic Web: To be or not to beSemantic web - choose your vendors carefullyI am all for the semantic web and the development of a layer of consciousness over it for full interoperability and new application mashups. I've heard of a number of publishers thinking about jumping on the...

Tags: Zemanta, Calais, Semantic Web, Thomson Reuters Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Semantic Web Gang podcast discusses Wolfram Alpha and Google's Rich Snippets

This month has seen Google announce 'Rich Snippets' and Wolfram Research release Alpha to a flurry of mainstream media coverage; both are of interest to those working on the Semantic Web. This month's episode of the Semantic Web Gang takes a look at both stories, and Gang...

Tags: Google Inc., Podcast, Mainstream Media, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?

In my latest podcast interview with those shaping our evolving engagement with Semantic Technologies, I speak with Eric Hillerbrand. Drawing upon years of experience in the development and deployment of Semantic Web solutions, Eric has spent the past few years considering the ways in which semantic technologies...

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Branding, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-20

FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web

The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication, using widely deployed technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS and Semantic Web vocabularies. This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing browsers | requiring the user to enter neither an identifier nor a password. Upon this, distributed,...

Tags: Protocol, Social Web, RESTful, Authentication, Ssl/Tls, Semantic Web, Security, Internet

White papers 2009-04-20

The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontologies

Back in October I wrote about the first Vocabulary Camp, or VoCamp. These informal gatherings have gone from strength to strength, and the fourth is currently underway on the Spanish island of Ibiza. A report from the island by Yahoo's Peter Mika begins this month's episode of...

Tags: Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium

Ivan Herman is Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and in this podcast he talks about a range of current activities across the Semantic Web community. by Paul Miller

Tags: W3C, Ivan Herman, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Growing the Linked Data pool, with the Talis Connected Commons

Back in December of 2008, I wrote about a new initiative from Amazon to make large sets of public data more accessible. Amazon offered to mount the data for free, and for developers writing applications elsewhere in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem even the bandwidth cost of communicating with GenBank,...

Tags: Data, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies

Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for DummiesMore like the Pedantic Web for @nal retentivesSemantic Web is the "soft" science of CS. With hand waving and imagination you can glimpse what a semantic web would be like. It is a beautiful fantasy whose time is not yet...

Tags: Semantic Web, Jeff Pollock

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies

Oracle's Jeff Pollock has been involved with Semantic Technologies for more than a decade, and puts that experience to good use in his latest book, Semantic Web for Dummies. I spoke with Jeff yesterday, and the result has just been released as a podcast. ...

Tags: Jeff Pollock, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Altova SemanticWorks 2009 (Windows)

Altova SemanticWorks 2009 is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor for the Semantic Web from the creators of XMLSpy. Graphically design and edit RDF instance documents, RDF Schema RDFS vocabularies, and OWL ontologies then output the format of your choice. SemanticWorks streamlines the job with full syntax and semantics checking. Additionally,...

Tags: Altova, OWL, Microsoft Windows, Altova SemanticWorks 2009, SemanticWorks, Details Entry Helper Window, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-02-08

A Load-on-Demand Approach to Handling Large Networks in the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

Network modeling, management, and analysis are common tasks for enterprise applications such as Geographic Information System GIS, Customer Relationship Management CRM, social network analysis, and in semantic web technologies such as the Resource Description Framework RDF. Oracle10g introduced the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model NDM, which lets users model and...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Analysis, Semantic Web, Networking, Internet

White papers 2009-02-01