Nick Carr’s most recent book, The Big Switch [UK, US], was published in January of 2008. Whether by luck or judgement, he caught the meme of the moment and became closely associated with growing interest in the notion of ‘Cloud Computing‘ throughout last year. The paperback edition of Nick’s book has just been published, and [...]
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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 [...]
Talking with Daniel Tunkelang about Endeca and Search
Daniel Tunkelang is an interesting blogger, and also manages to find time to be Chief Scientist at the privately held New York enterprise search company Endeca. In amongst all the other stuff that grabbed the world’s attention yesterday, Daniel and I managed to spend some time chatting about Endeca’s approach to enterprise search. Earlier this [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Event organisers are feeling the squeeze as advertising, travel and ‘training’ budgets present easy targets to Finance Directors seeking to balance their books in the current economic climate. Amidst announcement after announcement of cancelled and radically down-sized trade shows and conferences, one bright spot in the event management space appears to be [...]
Semantic Web Gang podcast for January talks about Linked Data and Thomson Reuters
One of the podcasts I do is called the Semantic Web Gang. It’s a monthly round-table, which I chair (in the loosest sense of the word!). The first show of the year was recorded yesterday, and just went up on the Semantic Web Gang site. Have a listen, to hear the Gang and I talk [...]
Paul Miller works at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing the insights that enable you to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database.