Tag: Semantic Web
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Selfish Web Users
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…
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Semantic Metaphors
Edit: the original blog post on Nodalities blog has been archived/deleted/ignored. I’ve republished it here. I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts. I’ve been exploring this a bit…
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Walled gardens: mapping the parties
Originally appeared on the Nodalities blog – which has since been consigned to the wayback machine. 29th April 2008, 11:34 am by Zach Beauvais In: Uncategorized The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing on kind of thing in terms of another. -Lakoff and Johnson (1980) Would you join me for a party? It’s a…
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Talis: another guest post!
The folks at Read/Write Web have published an article I wrote for them about UK-based innovations company Talis. Feel free to have a look over at the post, and feel free to leave comments either on Read/Write Web, or here.
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Web 2.0–Don’t call it that!
Describing a company or concept as “Web 2.0” is so, last half-decade. Nevermind that most people still haven’t heard the phrase. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and poll your office or family: unless you’re not allowed out of the IT dungeon or your family all work as tech-bloggers, my guess is that they…
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Interview with Adaptive Blue: What is a Smartlink?
After my trial implementation of AdaptiveBlue’s Smartlink technology on this very site, I was contacted by Director of Business Development, Fraser Kelton, who agreed to a Questions and Answers session about Adaptive Blue’s new technology. For a quick introduction, I have been trying out AdaptiveBlue’s Blue Organiser for a few weeks and found their semantic…
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How Smart can a Link Be?
In a bid to test a bit of the Semantic Web, I have inserted a little line of Java script into my blog which should automatically turn many of my links Smart. Not 8 hours after I had inserted the script, I was contacted by Fraser at AdaptiveBlue, the creaters of the Smartlink technology, who…