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Semantic web lite: same great taste, less reified

Most of the time the feeds at Planet RDF reference isolated items with general interest. Other times, though, the thoughts featured strike sparks against each other, leading to a chain reaction whereby everyone jumps in and Things Happen. Starting a few days ago, people have been referencing two stories, both of which I find very interesting. The […]

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What’s in a name

Danny Ayers has the start of a great RDF 101 titled RDF, Bottom Up, with promises of more to come. I’ve been working on something similarly named, but quite different in tone for some time now. Just so’s you know, when I every finally get around to putting this online, I didn’t steal the name from […]

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Semantics

Photos, flickr, and back doors

By accident, I discovered that I was in violation of Flickr’s Terms of Use today. According to the TOS, Flickr is not a image hosting service. I’m not sure how it differs from an ‘image hosting’ service, other than I needed to include a link back to the photo flickr page for every photo embedded […]

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Semantics Web

The business of algorithms

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Algorithms are big business. Recently I’ve seen several jobs where the company wants someone who is “…good with algorithms”. Microsoft is competing with Google is competing with Yahoo to hire the best algorithm wranglers (which evidently, according to the article, does not mean women). IBM is releasing it’s unstructured data architecture (UIMA), including it’s […]

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Semantics Web

Snapshot in semantic time

Danny Ayers: I’m guessing Shelley’s comment was where the ‘lower-case semantic web’ thing originated. You betcha. And I’m going after royalties, baby. I figure a dime for every mention, and my taxes will be paid and groceries bought. For a month. Yup, I just hope that Technorati has lots of money. Lots and lots of money. Corante, […]