This is a podcast I recorded for Talis’ Nodalities series of talks. Because Facebook has recently made announcements about moving in a Semantic Web direction, I spoke with their Senior Open Programs Manager, David Recordon, about Facebook’s perspectives on many of the technologies they’re beginning to use. We ended up discussing Social Networking as a… Read More
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Tags: David Recordon, Facebook, Online social networking, Podcast, Senior Open Programs Manager, Social media, Talis, the Nodalities Magazine, World Wide Web
Category: Featured, Podcast, Semantic Web No Comments
This post was originally published on Nodalities Blog. The Talis offices, for the past few weeks, have been awash with geeky excitement—that kind of near giddy excitement that comes with eager expectation. We’ve all been waiting for something important. For some, this was no doubt augmented with the announcement of Steve’s new iPad; but that’s… Read More
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Category: Digital, Semantic Web No Comments
|This article first appeared in Nodalities Magazine, CC By + SA For anyone following the Nodalities blog, you may have read some of my recent posts discussing the trends boiling up around Web 3.0 (other buzzwords are available). The Mobile Web and upgraded connectivity in general; the rise of ubiquitous computing from chips in every… Read More
Friday, August 14th, 2009 Category: Perspective, Semantic Web No Comments
Talis, my employer, has been a big promoter of Linked Data and open-access to information, because we see that new ideas often arise when existing ideas come together. Innovation, if you like, occurs at the join between ideas when they connect. I see this as fundamental to the way ideas and their applications (technology) advance…. Read More
Friday, May 1st, 2009 Tags: API, Platform, rdf, recombination, Semantic Web, semantic web standards, Talis, web-like network, www.talis.com/cc
Category: Perspective, Semantic Web No Comments
This post featured originally in Nodalities Magazine. Image by Zach_Beauvais via Flickr I’m sure I’m introducing old friends; but Twitter is a “microbloggiing” platform, to give it its proper description. it gives users 140 characters to publish status updates, comments, gripes, complaints, praises, news and whatever comes to mind. It’s burst out of its original… Read More
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Tags: Britain, location, Nodalities Magazine, search engine, Twitter, United Kingdom
Category: Perspective, Semantic Web No Comments
I have talked a lot about metaphor, both here and, perhaps sadly, to my friends and family. Metaphor and the abstract are true passions of mine, and I can’t help but see them everywhere. I suppose, it’s the nature of metaphor to be everywhere, really. The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one thing… Read More
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Tags: Google, mathematical algorithms
Category: Perspective, Semantic Web No Comments
I’ve been blogging a bit over on Nodalities about “stuff being connected”. The idea being basically: everyone is constantly creating data—all the bits of information that can be used in abstract. These tiny bits of information are constantly being generated by every process we undertake, from the obvious like online banking to the more obscure… Read More
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Tags: bank balances, cellular telephone, computing, GBP, linked data infrastructure, little processors, online banking, rdf, relational database, Semantic Web, software tools, web site points
Category: Digital, Perspective, Semantic Web 2 Comments
I’m planning to attend this year’s Future of Web Apps conference in London. Their list of speakers sounds fantastic, and I’m really looking forward to meeting some folks in real life. I’m particularly interested in this conference for its stated focus on the web community. Just have a look at the Agenda: How to grow… Read More
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Tags: awesome web, development, Digital, entreprenours, GBP, London, online startups, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Web Apps conference, web community
Category: Digital, Semantic Web 2 Comments
The BBC reported a few days ago that: Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The idea is that people are using the web to get things done, and don’t seem to notice that service providers want them to stick around. They even get tetchy with intrusions or… Read More
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Tags: Amazon.co.uk, Digital, editorial, Facebook, Google, ideas, interesting, Jakob Nielsen, Land Rover Discovery 3, online marketing, particular site, previously-read author, reading, Tesco, the Times, Vienna, Web 2.0, Web Users, web works
Category: Digital, Semantic Web, Travel No Comments
I just watched this talk by Richard Baraniuk (link if embed doesn’t work), about opening up access to educational text and information. One of the most amazing ideas from his talk and the project they’re working on (Connections) is open-sourced text books. The idea is that collaborative text-books, published on-demand could answer more questions and… Read More
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Tags: abstract, Education, ideas, interesting, Richard Baraniuk, Semantic Web, semantics
Category: Semantic Web 4 Comments
