Category Archives: Semantic Web & Web 2.0

The Empire strikes Back:
NOKIA’s Return To Your Pocket And The Magic Of Context

With Apple’s stock price ranging as high as it may ever get, but their once-superior phone engineering showing inceasingly more weeknesses in both concept and execution, this is the dawn for their competitors again. And since it can be quite hard to impossible sometimes to beat huge corporations in the business they themselves created, the guys at Nokia did wisely, to leave to others what others can do better. Continue reading

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The Grassroots Dilemma, The Return Of Browser Wars And
The Death Of The Plug-In

Please prepare for the most innovative technical changes to online experience since the late nineties, and watch out for those just wanting to cash-in on you for plain eye candy that will likely available to a selected few only anyway. Continue reading

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QR Chalking viable to mark-up the real world?

Marking-up real world places to connect them to references on the web at a reasonable price has been challenging ever since HP’s e-squirts using infrared and our own approach with Bluetooth beacons. Today I am testing the suitability of chalk patterns for temporary mark-up, which will erase itself over time in an environmentally responsible way. Continue reading

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The Semantic Web is Meaning Less
(at least to search engines…)

I’ll dare to offer semantically enhanced SEO (‘Suchmaschinenoptimierung’ in German) services, which we create for use with Google’s Universal Search or Yahoo!’s Monkey Business, as fully query-able semantic data endpoints so not not only search robot, but any application willing to use and promote the outcomes will be able to use these in real time. Continue reading

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Fascinating Insights from the First Ontologist Workshop at Max-Planck-Institute Leipzig

Something extremely re-assuring I am taking away from this two day event, is not only the obvious development progress in the ontology sector, but also the fact, that even the most renowned experts in the field struggle with the very same technical insufficiencies as we do, when designing new data models for our SemaWorx application base. Continue reading

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