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Is HTML5 Web 3.0?

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

About six years ago I wrote a blog titled “I have no idea what Web 2.0 means“. That blog had link to a video where IT leaders were helplessly trying to explain what Web 2.0 means. One guy said something like this, “Everyone wants to do it, and you can’t find enough people to do [...]

Robert "Rob" W. Balazy Appointed as CEO of Lycos Inc.,

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:32:54 EDT

The mythical Lycos Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, announced today the appointment of Rob W. Balazy as its CEO. Lycos is owned by Indian media group Ybrant Digital since 2010.

Another Startup Funded by Liahona Ventures Is Acquired

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:41 EDT

Liahona Venture (http://www.liahonaventures.com), a boutique investment firm, has hit the mark again, this time with Austin-based Sneaky Games, an emerging social game developer.

NextGate Launches MatchMetrix v8 and the NextGate Registries for Healthcare Solution for Accurate Identity Matching and Health Information Exchange

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:20:49 EDT

NextGate^® today released MatchMetrix^® v8 and the NextGate Registries for Healthcare: the technology platform and integrated solution that resolve identity matching uncertainties to enable accurate exchange of healthcare information in support of the industry’s patient-centric, meaningful use, and interoperable initiatives.

Online Press Release as Valuable Lead Generation Tool

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:00:46 EDT

NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Some of the primary responsibilities of a marketer are to educate consumers, convey the value of a product or service and identify interested prospects that could ultimately be converted into sales.

LinkedIn’s Kiran Prasad to Deliver Keynote Address at DevCon5 – The HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:10:16 EDT

TMC and Crossfire Media today announced that Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering, Mobile for LinkedIn will deliver a special keynote address at their DevCon5 – HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference this month in Santa Clara, California. DevCon5 takes place April 25-26, 2012 at the Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Prasad’s address is scheduled for Thursday, April 26^th.

Three Efiia Creations Merge Into New Information Sharing Alliance

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:02:07 EDT

have been merged together to form the Information Sharing Alliance (ISA). ISA was founded to consolidate lessons learned from valuable case studies and become a leading resource in information sharing. The overall mission of ISA is to provide secure collaborative information sharing resources for use across the public safety community. ISA strives to create a more proactive public safety community by making information flow more efficient, dynamic, and interactive. By encouraging secure, multi-directional information exchange, ISA hopes to ease managing disruptive behavior at federal, state, and local levels.

Research and Markets: Technology and Knowledge Flow: The Power of Networks

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:41:27 EDT

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/150aa9eb/technology_and_kno) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's book "Technology and Knowledge Flow: The Power of Networks" to their offering.

This book outlines how network technology can support, foster and enhance the Knowledge Management, Sharing and Development (KMSD) processes in professional environments through the activation of both formal and informal knowledge flows. Understanding how ICT can be made available to such flows in the knowledge society is a factor that cannot be disregarded and is confirmed by the increasing interest of companies in new forms of software-mediated social interaction. The latter factor is in relation both to the possibility of accelerating internal communication and problem solving processes, and/or in relation to dynamics of endogenous knowledge growth of human resources.

The book will focus specifically on knowledge flow (KF) processes occurring within networked communities of professionals (NCP) and the associated virtual community environments (VCE) that foster horizontal dynamics in the management, sharing and development of fresh knowledge. Along this line a further key issue will concern the analysis and evaluation techniques of the impact of Network Technology use on both community KF and NCP performance.

Key Features:

- the proposal of a taxonomy of Network Technology uses to support formal and informal knowledge flows

- analyses how Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technology is deeply modifying the dynamics connected to KF and KM

- discusses dynamics underlying horizontal KF sharing processes within NCP

- the evaluation of effects of knowledge sharing processes within social networks of professionals

- the evaluation of the virtual community environments devoted to support knowledge sharing and flow

Readership: Human resources managers and training managers within enterprises, attendees of top management courses, students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/150aa9eb/technology_and_kno

Source: Woodhead Publishing Ltd

Call for Participation: 36th Internationalization and Unicode Conference

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:32:26 EDT

The Unicode® Consortium today announced the Call for Participation for the Thirty-sixth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC). IUC 36 will take place in Santa Clara, Calif., USA at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on October 22-24, 2012, sponsored by Adobe. This is the premier conference on technologies and practices for the creation and management of global and multilingual software applications. For more information about the call for participation, please visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc36call.

Presenters from Adobe, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Joyent, Qualcomm Highlight Conference Program at DevCon5 – The HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:29:26 EDT

TMC and Crossfire Media today announced an impressive lineup of presenters participating in their upcoming DevCon5 – HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference, April 25-26, 2012 at the Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, California. Led by experts from Adobe, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Joyent and Qualcomm, the complete DevCon5 speaker list includes foremost authorities on HTML5 development and its impact on the web user experience.

Tyler Junior College Significantly Advances Online Marketing Strategy Through Migration to Jadu, a Modern Student Engagement Platform

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:07:05 EDT

CHICAGO, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jadu, Inc. a global Web Content Management vendor today announced that Tyler Junior College (TJC), TX, has selected the Jadu Universe CMS to deliver a new, rich student web experience for the college's corporate online communications.

Intelligent Medical Objects Opens Innovation Center at The University of Illinois Research Park

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:02:28 EDT

Intelligent Medical Objects, a leader in medical informatics tools, announced today that it will be opening a new research and development center on the campus of the University of Illinois.

TEMIS Chooses ISYS to Power Its Next Generation Luxid® Semantic Content Enrichment Platform

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:30:25 EDT

ISYS Search Software, the Master of Enterprise Search™, today announced that its class-leading Document Filters text extraction and analytics technology has been selected by TEMIS – a leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise – to power its cutting-edge Luxid® platform.

Webnodes AS Announces the Release of Version 3.8 of Webnodes Semantic CMS with MVC Support

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:30:00 EST

Oslo, Norway, March 08, 2012 --(PR.com)-- "This release is a very important release for us. It demonstrates our commitment on a number of levels, not only regarding semantic web technologies, but also more pure CMS improvements," said Ole Gulbrandsen, CTO of Webnodes. “In our continued effort to maintain and improve developer efficiency, we have added support for ASP.NET MVC templates. To continue to be on the forefront of the mobile web we have added a range of new mobile features.”

ASP.NET MVC template support
ASP.NET MVC (version 3) has become a very popular method for developing web sites and applications on the .Net platform. With this release of Webnodes CMS, templates can now be developed using MVC. Webforms and MVC are equally supported for template development in Webnodes, and both will continue to be supported in the future. You can also mix the two types in the same project.

New mobile features
Webnodes CMS now has built in features for mobile web development. The framework enables developers to write separate templates and to easily customize a version of the website for mobiles. An extendable mobile detection method has been added as well as specialized user interface controls to make mobile web development as simple as possible. The CMS editor interface also has a new mobile preview mode that lets you see how a page might look on a typical smartphone.

E-commerce module v3.0
New in this release is version 3.0 of the e-commerce module in Webnodes CMS. This version continues the rapid introduction of new features the module has seen since inception. Their development team has rewritten the provider system, decoupled the payment system, improved the user-interface, added dynamic attachment support and restructured the email notification system.

The improvements have focused on improving the user experience for editors and improving the already class leading extensibility of the module. “Real-world projects have shown us how much our customers appreciate that they can tailor our e-commerce offering exactly to their needs,” said Fredrik Thrane Holst, CEO of Webnodes AS. “The market is responding very well to the combination of our e-commerce engine and our semantic technology. E-commerce is one of the areas where semantic search really makes the difference. We’re excited about working with our partners in developing cutting-edge e-commerce solutions, that increases sales and articulate the value proposition for our customers.”

E-commerce starter site
Together with the new version of the e-commerce module, we’re also releasing a new advanced e-commerce demo and starter site. The new demo site is called “The Webnodes Shoe Store.” It shows you how you can build a sophisticated e-commerce site in Webnodes with the help of some of the hot new technologies like SignalR, which uses web sockets from HTML5 for real-time interactive product search.

Building on the release of Webnodes with Schema.org support that we announced in November, the templates in the e-commerce demo also contains Schema.org markup for improved traffic from search engines.

About Webnodes CMS
Webnodes CMS is a unique .NET based web content management (WCM) system powered by an ORM-based semantic content engine. It has been designed for the future of content management where taking advantage of structured content and the semantic web is a key to delivering value to the customer.

About Webnodes AS
Webnodes AS (www.webnodes.com) is a Norwegian software company developing and distributing Webnodes CMS. Webnodes’ customers cover a wide range of industries, from small companies with advanced needs, to large and multinational corporations with more complex web presences. The company is founded on 10 years of experience developing advanced web content management systems.

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Fredrik Thrane Holst
+47 916 29 681
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Personalized Media Launches New Disruptive Platform for Premium Publishers to Significantly Increase User Engagement and Views

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:39 EST

NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Personalized Media Inc., a leader in content discovery and user engagement for online media companies, has launched a new platform for premium publishers, which enables publishers to engage users better with their premium content, and increase the views on their flagship sites.

Data Market Chat: Leigh Dodds Discusses Kasabi

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:00:00 EST

Kasabi sees its role very much as an enabler of aggregation. Rather than focusing, as some data markets do, on simply providing access to data sets, Kasabi is betting on the power of being able to combine and recombine data in compelling new ways.

WebMediaBrands Inc. Reports Financial Results For Its Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2011

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:53:27 EST

WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011.

ThingWorx Joins Carnegie Mellon, IBM in Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:03:29 EST

ThingWorx™, the provider of the first application platform for the connected world, announced its partnership today with Carnegie Mellon’s Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (PSII). The ThingWorx platform will be used to gather and manage real-time information communicated by sensors and other connected devices tied to physical infrastructure. ThingWorx joins IBM and a host of innovative companies that are providing a range of technologies and tools to regional universities and institutions in an effort to blend traditional physical-infrastructure, such as transportation systems and buildings, with cyber-infrastructure- computers, networks, and sensors.

#EnterpriseSocial – Tagging the Expert Web

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:08:00 EST

The #EnterpriseSocial tag refers to the use of social media within the enterprise, for purposes of enhanced collaboration and knowledge management, as enabled by Cloud Best Practices. This is also known as Enterprise 2.0, and is a fairly well established term now, coined originally by Professor McAfee. I thought I’d reinvent here to make a … Continue reading »

WebMediaBrands 4th Quarter 2011 Financial Results Conference Call Scheduled for February 28, 2012

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:21:16 EST

WebMediaBrands Inc., (Nasdaq: WEBM) today announced that its conference call reviewing 2011 fourth quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm ET. Results will be released on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 after market close. The conference call number is 888-450-5996 for domestic participants and 719-955-1371 for international participants; confirmation code "179040". Please call five minutes in advance to ensure that you are connected prior to the presentation.

Joho: Culture is an echo chamber

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:12:11 EST

After a couple of years, I’ve actually published another issue of my old ‘zine. Why so long between issues? Basically, blogging ate my zine. Here’s the table of contents. The main article is, unsurprisingly, the first one: Culture is an echo chamber: We all hate echo chambers in which a bunch of yahoos convince one [...]

"Marketing to Latinos Conference Series," the Industry Leading Conference Series, Kicks Off Its Third Year With Its 2nd Annual Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Conference

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:33:15 EST

LatinVision Media Inc., a New York-based premier conference and networking event company, announced today the Kickoff of its "2012 Marketing to Latinos Conference Series." This outstanding series enters a third year with its "2nd Annual Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Conference and Networking Event" which takes place Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at The Harvard Club in NYC.

Glabber to Unveil Web 3.0

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:44:32 EST

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using highly anticipated and innovative technologies, "Glabber will advance the internet into Web 3.0 and change the way people think about and use the internet," says co-founder William Reid.

Top Global Trends for 2012: Leading Futurist Predicts What's Next

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:20:37 EST

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading futurist, author and business adviser Dr. James Canton, CEO, Institute for Global Futures, has released a report on the top global trends for 2012. The Global Futures Forecast 2012 is an annual trend report that predicts the newest developments coming in the year. Organizations worldwide use this yearly forecast as a barometer for what challenges, risks and strategies may emerge in the marketplace and society.

Data Market Chat

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST

I originally recorded a podcast with Infochimps’ Flip Kromer way back in December 2009, when most of today’s data markets were just starting out. We spoke again last week, as part of my current series of Data Market Chats, and it’s interesting to begin exploring some of the ways in which Infochimps and its peers have evolved. Describing Infochimps variously as a “SourceForge for data” or an “Amazon for data,” Flip argues that the site’s real value lies in bringing data from different sources together in one place. This, he suggests, is part of allowing customers to “bridge the gap from data to insight.” Despite his impatience with some of the complexities of the Semantic Web ideal, Flip willingly embraces the lightweight semantics emanating from projects such as the search engine-backed schema.org. He also recognises the value of good metadata in making data easy to use, and in introducing a degree of comparability between data sets from different sources. Towards the end of the conversation, Flip provides his perspective on some of the other players in this space. Microsoft’s Azure Data Market, for example, is Saks Fifth Avenue to Infochimps’ Amazon; one has ‘the best’ socks, whilst the other has all the socks.

Rosslyn Analytics Announces Strategic Partnership with ACS, a Xerox Company

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:26:26 EST

Rosslyn Analytics, the global leader in cloud-based business intelligence-as-a-service (BIAS), today announced a strategic partnership with ACS, a Xerox Company, to help finance, procurement and sourcing organizations at mid to large enterprises accelerate profitability and boost business performance at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional customer engagement models.

WebMediaBrands’ INSIDE SOCIAL APPS Conference Opens In San Francisco This Week with Focus on Facebook, Google and Mobile Platforms

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:00 EST

WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM) today announced that its 3^rd annual INSIDE SOCIAL APPS 2012 conference will open this week (February 8-9) at The San Francisco Design Center. The two-day summit will gather the world’s leading entrepreneurs to weigh in on the future of the rapidly growing business of social and mobile apps, with discussions on monetization, app and game design, marketing, and distribution on established and emerging platforms.

OutWit Hub 2.1 – A Web Harvesting Power Tool for All

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:02:42 EST

OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original data collection technology, announces the release of the first cross-platform Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect information from the Internet, feed it to various destinations or open it in common applications.

CloudCamp London: the Big Data Special

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:59:00 EST

The CloudCamp unconference returned to London for the 14th time this evening, regaling a capacity crowd in the Crypt below Clerkenwell’s St James Church with several hours of discussion and debate on the somewhat elusive topic of ‘Big Data’. Rather rough notes of the proceedings follow, after the break. LEF‘s Simon Wardley kicked proceedings off as [...]

Draft: What’s new about social media?

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:01:35 EDT

I’m on a panel about “What’s Next in Social Media?” at the National Archives tonight , moderated by Alex Howard, the Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, and with fellow panelists Sarah Bernard, Deputy Director, White House Office of Digital Strategy; Pamela S. Wright, Chief Digital Access Strategist at the National Archives. It’s at 7pm, [...]

Vendors Survival: Will Google Survive until 2021? - Part 2

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:51:00 EDT

Searching the Web Search Engine is Google's most strategic product. Some of its other products are using it as component of the services they provide. Limitation or failure of it, as described in Why we desperately need a New (and Better) Google cited in part1 of this post, could negatively affect Google's market position. This is a major challenge facing Google. Google has no control of some of the factors limiting its effectiveness. Challenges in Searching the Web The following bullets describe major Web Data problems, which could affect Web Search:

Chemistry of Social Networks

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:00:00 EDT

Over the weekend I was reading an interview with Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock ventures. He made some interesting observations that social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Twitter is wrath or lust (as in the case of congressman Anthony Weiner)? With Facebook it is about vanity, and how people choose to present themselves to their friends. It is the feeling of being connected. The trick is to exploit the importance of deep universal, psychological structure in people’s minds. Zynga is about fun. Fun is important and to have the ability to do something fun for 10 to 15 minutes that is right at your fingertips and involves your friends is better than Television (in terms of social connectivity). With LinkedIn, it is taking control of your economic destiny and improving how you operate as a professional to develop a competitive advantage. As per Reid Hoffman, these are fundamentals for having a fulfilling quality of life.He thinks it is always about scale – whether it is online gaming as in Zynga or at Groupon, a functioning marketplace for local goods and services that works on discounts and daily-deal kind of basis.

Atwood Technology Selected to Pitch in the Dragons’ Den

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:39:57 EDT

Miramichi, Canada, April 12, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The CEO of New Brunswick’s Atwood Technology Inc. will get the chance to pitch her ideas to potential investors on national TV. The producers of Dragons’ Den have invited Atwood as a candidate for the upcoming 2011-2012 season. Atwood Technology is an ontology-based human semantics company in Miramichi, New Brunswick. Dragon’s Den, a Canadian reality TV show, invites entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas in front of a panel of intimidating, multi-millionaire investors. Dragon’s Den airs on CBC Television on Wednesday nights.

Atwood creates human matchmaking technology using Web 3.0 and is pioneering this technology in the online dating industry. Currently, Atwood provides a free online dating site, www.kipici.com, that will offer premium services in the upcoming months.

However, with 18,000 dating companies in North America, Atwood’s goal is not to create another dating site, but to create superior technology to unite small and midsize dating companies so that they can take on the big players, which do not meet customer demand for superior personalized service.

Atwood’s CEO, Theresa Williams who graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is excited about the opportunity and hopeful that Atwood will be selected as one of the final companies to appear on the next season of Dragon’s Den. “It is a great opportunity since former co-founder and CEO of Lavalife, Bruce Croxon, joined Dragon’s Den in February 2011 as a Dragon (investor). The opportunity to pitch to a Canadian dating-industry legend is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I will be doing just that on May 11th,” says Williams.

"Atwood Technology will provide a large boost to the economically deprived region where it operates (Miramichi, New Brunswick)," says Williams. Miramichi was once rich with forestry, mining, and military jobs. However, the days of prosperity for the region have disappeared and Miramichi has recently been ranked as one of the lowest (166 out of 180) in MoneySense’s 2011 “Best Places to live in Canada” list. Today, the region is striving to revive its economy through new industries and technology. Williams, who has recently been dubbed the regions “Dragon Slayer,” plans to stay at the forefront of this quest. Williams will pitch to the Dragons on May11th which is anticipated to air in the upcoming Dragons’ Den season.

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506-622-2700
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www.kipici.com

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Anonymous Puts Out Press Release

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST

The Semantic Link is Open

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:48:00 EST

At the end of last month, I wrote about the new Semantic Link podcast that I’m involved with for SemanticWeb.com. We recorded the first episode earlier this week and it’s now online, along with an introduction to the series from myself. Please do have a listen, and let me know what you think whilst I [...]

Garlik Angel Launches in the Google Chrome Web Store

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:56:00 EST

Garlik Angel will alert users to personally identifiable information discovered on the web, social networking sites and being traded by criminals

Wednesday, 8th December, 2010 - Garlik, the online crime experts, have today announced the launch of Garlik Angel in North America. Garlik Angel is an online application available exclusively through the new Chrome Web Store, which helps protect users from the risks of online crime on the public web, social networks and black market data trading sites.

Garlik Angel is available at the Chrome Web Store for a monthly subscription of $3.99. It constantly monitors for the exposure of a user's personal and financial information such as email addresses, social security numbers, credit card details and much more. When information is found Garlik Angel will alert them immediately via e-mail and SMS. Garlik Angel then helps them take action to protect themselves by providing any assistance required as a result of the alerts with its proactive "Alert and Mend" philosophy. This reduces the risk of the individual falling victim to online fraud or scams in the first place.

Currently Garlik's services monitors over two million pieces of traded information every month and there is no sign of this figure subsiding. Criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the way they target consumers through the Internet to gain financial and other information about them, which can then be used for gain through its sale, or fraudulent financial transactions, such as credit card sales, or new loans against a victims name.

Garlik Angel helps users:

Protect their money online by alerting and advising them if financial details are found exposed on the public web
Avoid being an innocent victim of fraud by alerting them if contact details could easily be stolen online and used to make fake documents in their name, or if an e-mail address is being sold to internet fraudsters
Avoid harassment. Stolen personal data is often used to make victims an easy target for spam, junk mail, and nuisance calls that are annoying and could trick them into losing money
Learn all the tips and tricks to being web-savvy through regular newsletters, an online community, and access to a team of experts

Kate Bolton, Vice President at Garlik Inc said, "Garlik Angel keeps you safe while you shop, surf, or bank online, by helping prevent your personal information being used and abused by fraudsters, scammers and hackers."

Garlik Angel is available exclusively through the Chrome Web Store, an online marketplace where users can search, browse and use web-based applications and extensions. From productivity tools to research sites to interactive games, the Chrome Web Store helps users find the best applications on the web.

Get Garlik Angel on Chrome Web Store for only $3.99 per month here.

About Garlik
Garlik, the online fraud and identity experts, is the first company to develop a web-scale commercial application of semantic web technology, Garlik provides services to help consumers protect themselves from the risk of identity and financial fraud.

Garlik has appointed a panel of world-class ID protection and technology experts to advise the business including Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE from the University of Southampton and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. In January 2008, Garlik was selected as a World Economic Forum, Davos, Technology Pioneer and in December 2008 it won the British Computer Society BT Flagship for Innovation Award.

Garlik is backed by three of the UK's leading blue chip investment firms, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Encore/DFJ Esprit and Noble Venture Finance.

For further information please contact:

Duncan Gurney
Melville Communications
+44 (0)1483 489009
Duncan@melvillecommunications.co.uk

[Update 2] WikiLeaks & Web 3.0 - A Commentary

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:45:00 EST

Is Web 3.0 maybe going to be less the utopia we've been envisaging and more like the real, physical world, with all the real-world limitations that follow along with it...?| The latest WikiLeaks ("Cablegate") affair, coming as it does at the very end of the first decade of the 21st Century, comes at an appropriate moment. An undoubted political and dilomatic hornet's nest, the swirling discussions surrounding the organization's drip-drip release of (so far) 612 of the quarter of a million or so dilomatic cables in its possession are all grist to the mill of an "awakening" that in my view clearly imho going to mark the difference between the Web of 2000-1010 and that of 2011 onwards.

HTML5: The Web Gets Serious - Part 1

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:00 EST

This article is first in a series of four that will help readers grasp the changes that are being introduced to the web and web browsers with HTML5. This article will provide an overview of the current browser support for html5 and the kind of things that it can do as well as its limitations.

Pacquiao Wins by TKO Over Margarito

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:06:00 EST

Add "Manny the Merciful" to the legacy of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. Confirming that his combination of two-fisted quickness and power was far too much for Antonio Margarito, the now-eight-class world champion Pacquiao closed one of his opponent's eyes completely, almost closed the other, pleaded with the referee and with Margarito's corner to end the fight in the 10th round, then just went through the motions during the last five minutes of the fight, knowing he had won easily and hoping that he wasn't going to accidentally kill his opponent. If this was a fight, they would've stopped it. Oh wait, it was a fight, and nobody stopped it. But somebody should've stepped in at the end of the10th and awarded Pacquiao the TKO that he earned for his efforts this night in Dallas. But referee Laurence Cole declined to step in. His decision is defensible, in that Margarito, although almost fully blind by the 10th round, had not been knocked down, was not wobbling, didn't have that glassy-eyed look that says "end it now," and refused to stop moving forward against Pacquiao. Inexcusable On the other hand, Margarito's corner showed inexcusable contempt for their man's health by not throwing in the towel. They'll use the excuse that Margarito didn't want to quit, and the old canard that Mexicans never stop fighting. Of course their man didn't want to quit; no world-class boxer does. That's why it's essential for the cornermen to rise to the challenge and make that very hard decision to tell their man it's over. Margarito's trainer, Robert Garcia, had said he wants to be well-known and respected after this fight. He got the former, but I doubt the latter. There was apparently no doctor in the house, either, or at lest not one that was watching the fight. Margarito went to the hospital immediately afterwards; this is not uncommon after fights at this level, but in this case, one hopes he receives better care in the hospital than he did ringside. Pacquiao sliced into Margarito power, precision, and frequency from the opening bell. By the fourth round, the fight announcers were calling for Floyd Mayweather. Unless Pacquiao started to play around and let Margarito back in, this fight was over then. Pacquiao did start to fool around a bit in the middle rounds, as he remains a bit impish, with his pure love of fighting trumping his boxing judgement even now, in the zenith of his career. He let Margarito work him into a corner a couple too many times, and paid for his indiscretion by receiving a few hard shots to the body and head, including a left uppercut that put him on rubber-leg street for a few seconds. The Boy Done Good Again But Pacquiao, who received about a dollar for his first street fight when he was a boy, has always reacted quickly and well to such pressure. It seems to make him gleefully mad when he's hit, and in this fight, he quickly knocked Margarito around with 5-, 6-, and 8-punch combinations each time he got into a little trouble. The main event was preceded by numerous events on an undercard of varying quality. Two young Filipino fighters won their matches, while a third, the grandson of local legend "Flash" Elorde, lost. Another fight featured an aggressive, strong, very unattractive rising star named Brandon Rios; and two other decisions on the card were hinky, with one smelling like an absolute fix; I won't comment further on that. Point of information: I watched this on a closed-circuit broadcast in a movie theater in Manila. The crowd was mildly boisterous. The Philippines has a proud boxing history and tradition, and these fans knew that they were watching a bad beating. After Pacquiao easily defeated Oscar De La Hoya, these fans also don't get manically exuberant about every Pacquiao fight, in the way they are often portrayed. They love their man, but to understand the Philippines means to understand that everything--every thing--in this culture is focused on the group, not the individual. Manny is like an older brother to many of them, a younger brother to others, and a son to others. The pride is national, and the love is unconditional. Manny's merciful treatment of Margarito reflects the best of this culture and nation, and the fans will no doubt regard those last five minutes as among the greatest of his career.

Service-Oriented Architecture & Cyber Security

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:15:00 EDT

As with any effective entity within the federal realm, the DoD in its effort to ensure that mission critical information is accessible, discernible, implicitly clear for its end-users and available as demanded in an efficient manner; has implemented a technical architectural approach with SOA implementations. In an earlier article, I stated that we can view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a synthesis of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) platforms with middleware tools. This evolution has evolved into an architectural style which, entities can then utilize to execute and align key services with their operational model to achieve strategies, goals and objectives.

Mobile Augmented Reality Presentation

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:15:00 EDT

Last night I gave a presentation on Mobile Augmented Reality at the Phoenix Mobile Technology Group. Here is the presentation.

Next Up, the Educated Guess Chip

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:30:00 EDT

What comes after the Central Processing Unit (CPU), the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Start-up Lyric Semiconductor Inc. says it’ll be a fifth non-digital architecture that it’s inventing called the GP5.

‘Towards a Web of Data?’ presentation

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:45:13 EDT

I was in Manchester yesterday, having been invited over by Paul Collins to speak at Vision+Media‘s final Transmissions workshop. The topic was ‘Towards a Web of Data,’ and the other speakers were Bill Roberts of Swirrl and Liz Turner of Iconomical. Bill’s slides are here, and mine are embedded below. Thanks to Paul for the [...]

Powerful Web 2.0

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:55:00 EDT

Rich Bianco over at the Displaced Guy blog just wrote a post entitled WaveMaker delivers for the cloud like PowerBuilder did for client-server. In it, he talks about using WaveMaker to migrate PowerBuilder applications to Java. "I’ve spent most of my career doing PowerBuilder development against every major DBMS and I still believe it offers productivity beyond anything on the market for client-server applications. But the writing is on the wall for client-server and rich internet applications and WaveMaker are the future." It has taken WaveMaker almost 3 years to build a worthy replacement for PowerBuilder. We certainly have not achieved the full breadth of functionality that developers can get from mature client/server tools like PowerBuilder, MS Access and Oracle Forms. However, for developers who want a fast and easy way to build Web 2.0 applications, WaveMaker rocks!

Google Widens AppEngine Offerings, Announces Cloud Portability

Wed, 19 May 2010 18:01:00 EDT

This morning Google announced AppEngine for business and integration with VMWare tools for Cloud portability at its annual developer conference Google I/O. Until now AppEngine is available for developers with many restrictions and no support. With the new offerings Google is trying to tap into the enterprise market. With this announcement Google opened the doors to the IT departments to build and maintain their applications in Google cloud, with added management and premium support features tailored specifically for the enterprise.These are the features that will be available on AppEngine between Q3 2010 and EOY 2010.

McAfee, Cloud Computing, and the Dumbest Story I've Seen

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:53:00 EDT

was trying to catch up with everybody else was saying about Cloud Computing after I spent a great week in New York at Cloud Expo, when I ran across the dumbest story I've ever seen. "McAfee's Blunder, Cloud Computing's Fatal Flaw" it said. The writer blamed Cloud Computing for whatever idiots at McAfee sent out a virus protection update last week that proved to be one of the worst viruses ever created. Just because McAfee updated its customers electronically--as does Microsoft with its Service Packs and everybody else in the known universe today--the writer calls this Cloud Computing. Or does he? In his second paragraph, he says "Granted, you can't really call McAfee a cloud vendor. McAfee's play is sort of the cloud model in reverse;" Is this like "I voted for the war and before I voted against it?"

Facebook Rocks the Web

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:08:38 EDT

Facebook's F8 Keynote is a must watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfLBZcEpG_I - four parts) for the future of the web. The announcements have already led to a lot of commentary - and alarm in some cases about what it might mean for the openness of the web. Check our Chris Messina's posts here and here for great commentary in the text and comments. It's even lead to to a nascent group to provide an alternative mechanism for some of Facebook's new features - openlike (see here for the homepage).

SemTech 2010 Conference Announces “Marketing in the Web 3.0 World” Marketing and Advertising on the Semantic Web

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:01:50 EDT

Semantic Universe announced a new program within its 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2010) called “Marketing in the Web 3.0 World”, taking place on June 23-24, 2010 at the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square. The entire SemTech 2010 event takes place June 21 through June 25, 2010.

Peer39 Appoints Andy Ellenthal as Chief Executive Officer

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:30:03 EDT

Peer39 today announced it has named Andy Ellenthal as chief executive officer. Ellenthal will lead the online semantic advertising company's efforts to accelerate business growth and further innovate in the online advertising space. In addition, Peer39 Founder Amiad Solomon will be named President of the Company, and will concentrate his efforts on business development, product innovation and strategic initiatives.

Saffron Technology Expands Strategic Partners Network

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:00:11 EDT

Partnerships Promise Accelerated Development of Experience Management Solutions for Solving Complex Data Analytics Challenges Facing Business and Government