A lot can go wrong during the development and release of a mobile application, from poor project planning to faulty APIs. Often, the biggest mistakes happen before the first lines of code are ever written.
3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans
My latest book "Welcome to the Fifth Estate: How to Create and Sustain a Winning Social Media Strategy," discusses influencer theory in detail, including a section on the history of influencer theory on the social Web.
A big problem with contextualizing information is that machines still cannot think. They are only able to do calculations, so everything we do to contextualize data in a software system must be "reduced" to statistics and mathematics. When a certain problem cannot be solved using mathematics (and there are many of them!) then the user must jump in.
You may know Wordnik from subscribing to its Word of the Day service... Now comes something new on the API front: Word Graph is the latest result of some three years of algorithm development around analyzing the digital text that Wordnik has collected from partners, to understand the relationship between words in order to derive meaning.
Hi, I'm just starting to research semantic web, web 3.0 and RDF… that post was building a repository of data that pointed to some good content on Semantic Web Learning.
Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration meets this challenge head on with a systemic, human-network approach to managing business operations and ecosystems.
Social media is earning an increasing share of the global consumer's media time. Be it Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or any of the other platforms popular around the world, consumers are spending more time in these spaces. Brands need to be here.
But before you start updating your brand status, tweeting or posting videos, you also need to work out just what you hope to gain.
We are happy to announce the beta release of RDFaCE (RDFa Content Editor). RDFaCE is an online text editor based on TinyMCE. It supports authoring of RDFa content.
What got Talis going on its Linked Data marketplace that launched in public beta in June, dubbed Kasabi? The recognition that there had to be a business model in making RDF data as easy to use as possible - from publishing it to querying it, all in a well-supported and sustainable fashion for providers and consumers alike.
Socialcast (which was recently acquired by ReadWriteWeb sponsor VMware) ran an interesting infographic these week visualizing, among other things, a social media study conducted by the Center for Marketing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on the use of social media in Fortune 500 companies (we covered part of this study back in 2008).
Developers can find excellent resources at productontology.org, home of The Product Types Ontology: High-precision identifiers for product types based on
Wikipedia.
"Sentiment analysis is one of the facets of text analytics that can discern the softer or intentional components of a report, an e-mail or other communication.
While there may not be a semantic application that can go to work on every issue that requires grappling with Big Data, it certainly has a role to play in many of them. Throw out outliers such as using power grid data to optimize power distribution, and "the lion's share of big data problems are semantic problems," says Dachis Group CTO Erik Huddleston.
We recently reported on the creation of WhoKnows?, a semantic game based on the DBpedia dataset. As it turns out, WhoKnows? isn't the only game of its kind.
A new search engine allows users to search for good news. According to the article, "Jurriaan Kamp editor of Ode Magazine in San Francisco has created a new search engine. Ode Wire, available here in its beta form uses semantic search technology to spot optimism on the web, and delivers users news stories from an 'uplifting' angle.