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 Boyd Collins is a senior consultant with the Enterprise Content Management practice for SAIC. He has over 15 years of Web development experience for a wide variety of corporations, including ...

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I posted a status update to Twitter, identi.ca, and Facebook late last night hoping to suss out two questions: Is MARC a data model? But really: what qualifies something as a data model? I'd ...

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The semantic web folks, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, have been saying for years that the Internet could become significantly more compelling by cooking more intelligence into the way things link ar...

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I sat down with the DataPortability Project's Elias Bizannes a few months ago to organize the elements of a model portability policy. Your site's portability policy will be part of your Terms of Serv...

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Almost every site has a search function. But do they all work as well as they could? More importantly, how is your site’s search doing? Are users abandoning the site in frustration, because the...

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The book and media industries are going through interesting times, to put it mildly. As physical books prepare for their demise, the confusion around pricing of digital ones grows. Yet, whether physi...

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Last summer, Tech Guru Anil Dash was summoned by the Obama administration to head the Washington DC incubator Expert Labs. Expert Labs was further proof of the American Gov’ts commitment to tra...

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As everyone knows last night Google announced that they are now supporting RDFa and microformats to add ‘Rich Snippets’ to their search results page. Rich Snippets give users convenient s...

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My friend Gil Elbaz is launching Factual today. It's a new service that aims to aggregate spreadsheet style data from around the Web to create a vast open database of facts. Interesting stuff. Check....

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Peter Sefton wrote a series of posts on wave. He has published on Scholarly HTML so I read attentively what he has to say. What follows is some highlights of his posts, and my thinking about where t...

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XEP-0258: Security Labels in XMPP . This document describes the use of security labels in XMPP. The document specifies how security label metadata is carried in XMPP, when this metadata should or sho...

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Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh) - Community - ComputerworldUK . It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustr...

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Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we've learned from a reliable source. The service speciali...

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What's the best way to leverage the most information out of 140 characters? Should you get to learning Mandarin so each character can be a word? Or start forming German-style pseudo-word hashtags to ...

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Truly Open Data - O'Reilly Radar . by Nat Torkington  |  @gnat |  comments: 7 I'm kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about ope...

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XEP-0080: User Location . NOTICE: The protocol defined herein is a Draft Standard of the XMPP Standards Foundation. Implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in pr...

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Cascaad Personalizes Your News Stream In Real Time, Raises Funding . Cascaad , which is billed both as an ‘awareness engine’ and a ’smart social media browser’ by the Italian startup behind the servi...

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Mashups go mainstream as agencies mix data with social media -- Washington Technology . Government agencies would seem to be a natural fit for  enterprise mashups — Web sites or applications that co...

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Why Digg Digs Cassandra – GigaOM . Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest s...

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Google looks to be following up the addition of its Google Chart Tools with a neat addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page...