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The Semantic Web Gang talk about semtech2009, LIVE

Back in May, I mentioned that the Semantic Web Gang podcast for June would be coming – live – from the stage of this year’s Semantic Technology Conference. Well, we did it, and it was a lot of fun. And as I mention during the session, being able to see the panel made my job [...]

 
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TripIt – adding structure, one journey at a time

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TripIt is one of those web applications upon which I have really come to rely. Like Tungle, it sets about reducing the pain of dealing with the admin behind a boring, repetitive, frustrating yet necessary part of my work.
For Tungle, as I’ve said before, that task is meeting scheduling. For TripIt, it’s organising [...]

 
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Opening up and letting go to strengthen market position

Two separate pieces of news came my way during the night, and although both were written about elsewhere whilst those of us on this side of the Atlantic slept, they remain worthy of mention; both in their own right and because of the wider trend of which they are part.
First, Cloud Computing provider 3Tera announced [...]

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Do Sociable Media herald the transition from complaint to FYI?

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Much has been written about growing Enterprise use of social media (usually Twitter, these days) to successfully track and mitigate customer complaint. Many have been quick to spot that the disproportionately high cost of satisfying (or, more cynically, silencing) these early adopters is unlikely to scale effectively as an increasingly [...]

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Amazon tethers balloons for now; attention turns to crunching data in the Cloud with Elastic MapReduce web service

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Amid mounting international concern that the guidance lasers aboard Jeff Bezos‘ new Floating Amazon Cloud Environment would interfere with Rudolph’s sense of direction, sources close to the Amazon Web Services team tell me that they’ve been forced to alter priorities and switch attention to an early release of the next product on their [...]

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