Semantic Web as the "killer app", Part 1
In it’s present form, the web is a loose collection of data islands we call websites. In a future world wide Semantic Web, would there be a need to search for anything? Maybe those things that we need would be so neatly packaged and so clearly labeled, they would find us instead…
Before I begin, a [...]
Pownce to be leapt upon by RIAA?
The music industry has often danced to a different tune. And with the start of the new school year, college students return to class with threatening legal documents awaiting them, care of the RIAA. If that’s the song the music labels and the RIAA want to dance to, it’s more like a their smooch than [...]
Social Networks: open, secure personal IDs
In a way, I’ve been building towards this, by way of smaller discussions, comments and even my own articles. As topics go, Social Networking is vast, and because of its size, I’m going to be pulling you in different directions. Some directions in the present, some in a future of possibilities that hinge upon suppositions [...]
Google’s YouTube to show some charity?
I’m not often moved by local affairs. I don’t even read the local papers all that often. But if there’s something of note, my dad will read aloud, and we’ll either laugh and rage. So what do Google’s YouTube, a singer from Barnsley and a charity have in common that got me thinking?
Sat in his [...]
Apple vs Microsoft: tech trends future war
It’s as if the battle never ended, isn’t it? Maybe it didn’t? Maybe the battle is still burning away, only Guerilla war style. Small pockets of conflict, scattered here & there. Right now, the air is thick with bullets as the major games consoles do battle over the thirtysomething market…
While mortar fire can be heard [...]

