Paul Miller

The Cloud of Data


Archive for January, 2009

Bringing the Semantic Web to Museums

Image via Wikipedia On the face of it, there surely can’t be many places more ready for the Semantic Web than the world’s great museums. Vast quantities of richly structured data describing visually compelling objects that people already flock to see? A raison d’etre that is about sharing information and enhancing understanding? A tradition, stretching [...]

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Lots of London

In a previous role I used to spend 2-3 days each week in London, spending 4-5 hours per day on trains that (then) lacked today’s power and wifi. Over the past few years I’ve had far less reason to regularly visit the city, but those trips certainly seem to be on the rise once more. [...]

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Look mum, it’s me!

Image by moxliukas via Flickr In my recent cull of subscriptions to print media, BusinessWeek had no difficulty whatsoever in avoiding the chop. It consistently offers a useful and timely perspective on events in the world around me, and (subjectively) seems to intelligently consider the tech perspective on things more often than some of its [...]

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Jeff Hardy tells me why SmarterTools ‘built their own Cloud’

Continuing my current run of podcasts, I spoke with Jeff Hardy of SmarterTools on Friday. Jeff is VP of Business Operations for the company, and gave a presentation (PDF) at PubCon towards the end of last year in which he dissected some of the marketing noise around major providers of Cloud-based hosting. As we discuss [...]

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Chatting with Sinclair Schuller about making it easier to deploy SaaS applications

Image via CrunchBase I’ve written before about Sinclair Schuller and the work he’s doing at Apprenda. Yesterday, I recorded a podcast to continue some of our earlier conversations in more public form, and this is now available here. Have a listen, and see what you think about the need for intermediaries such as Apprenda to [...]

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