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Reality Check for Social Media

Published in April 2nd, 2008

Posted by Rob Diana in Internet, Semantic Web, Social Media

In my daily RSS reading, I came across an article from CIO.com entitled “CIOs Still Fear Web 2.0 for the Enterprise”. I bring this to attention as my recent writing has been focused on more advanced services like lifestreaming and the semantic web. The corporate demographics of the survey are nicely distributed: The majority (43 [...]

What is needed for the semantic web to take off?

Published in March 31st, 2008

Posted by Rob Diana in Semantic Web

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I have said before that unless we have some tools in place, the semantic web will be dead on arrival. So, instead of just complaining about it, I will start with listing the ideas that I think are needed. I hope to contribute to the development of some of this in the near future as [...]

Semantic Web Tools Lacking

Published in March 26th, 2008

Posted by Rob Diana in Semantic Web

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ReadWriteWeb has an interesting overview of the types of semantic web applications. I will not try to explain the various types, as that is handled better in the article itself. However, I would like to look at some of the applications that were mentioned in the article. I will not be discussing the actual formats [...]

Is the Semantic Web Dead On Arrival?

Published in February 22nd, 2008

Posted by Rob Diana in Internet, Semantic Web

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The other day, I was reading a very good article from ReadWriteWeb regarding where all of the semantic web authoring tools are. The author, Nitin Karandikar, had some very good points about the importance of tools. On the one hand, most authors are comfortable with, and proficient in, desktop authoring tools such as Microsoft Word, [...]

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