August 25, 2010 – 10:00 am
The Semantic Web has taken significant steps towards reality in recent months, with the powerful triumvirate of Google, Facebook and Twitter moving to integrate elements of semantic technology into their operations.
All of a sudden, a development that for too long appeared to be stalled by the chicken-and-egg problem of how website owners could be induced [...]
Report from the Semantico Online Publishing Symposium on Mobile and Cross-platform Delivery – Part Three
Publishers know they have to innovate to survive in the jungle of online publishing, with the big beasts of technology such as Amazon, Google and Apple all too willing and able, it seems, to disintermediate traditional publishers out of existence.
But two [...]
Report from the Semantico Online Publishing Symposium on Mobile and Cross-platform Delivery – Part Two
Publishers must widen their frame of reference in order fully to understand the change in business models that taking their content online might necessitate – looking beyond traditional pricing models and text formats within their particular field of publishing.
This was one [...]
Clearly not everybody knows about ‘The Apple Effect’. While I was taking this picture outside the O2 shop in Brighton, a bystander asked me what the queue was for. I told him it was for the new Apple iPhone 4.0, which is launched today in the UK. ‘So is that free or what?’ was his [...]
Rushed into law in the dying days of the Labour government, The Digital Economy Act has been described by Guardian Columnist Cory Doctorow as establishing an unprecedented realm of web censorship in Britain.
This is not what the Act seeks to do, ostensibly at least, but it is seen as an inevitable if perhaps unintended consequence of a badly framed, [...]
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Richard Padley
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