Licensing of Linked Data
As part of a workshop at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), former colleague Leigh Dodds prepared an interesting diagram on the ways in which resources comprising the Linked Data Cloud are currently licensed. For various reasons, I was unable to make it to Virginia for the event, but a scan through the presentations […]
Microsoft’s Elop on S+S and SaaS
Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo one of the keynotes was an interview between Tim O’Reilly and Stephen Elop from the Microsoft business division. Elop was formerly with Macromedia but was headhunted by Steve Ballmer to join the “evil empire” (Elop’s words, not mine). Much of Elop’s interview was based around a discussion about […]
WeFollow – the Echo Chamber Gets Louder
Digg founder and (so it would seem) tech heartthrob Kevin Rose has launched another service that looks set to set the world on fire. Kevin obviously ignored (or was too busy Twittering to hear) Tim O’Reilly’s recent plea to “build stuff that matters” and has instead developed WeFollow. WeFollow is a service where by Twitter […]
Web 2.0 Expo San Fran, Here I (We) Come
I’m stoked to have received confirmation that both Zoli and I will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco at the start of April. I’m also one of the blog partners (and in a double feat, so is Zoli) and we will be taking part in a bloggers roundtable with some guy called […]
Sterling Rant Goes Viral
I posted back during the Webstock conference about the Bruce Sterling presentation where, depending on your point of view, Sterling either crushed some Web 2.0 deities, or proved himself once and for all an arrogant bore. One of those deitites who came in for Sterling’s criticism was the father of Web 2.0 (at least the […]
