Sleepless in NY The shift from social media to semanticweb This weekend was quite exciting with both businessweek and NYT examining,from 2 different angels, the relationship between a matured web (2.0) to it’s next stage, the semantic web. In an interesting move, Marc Fron, CTO OF NYT announced the company’s plans to release an API […]
Month: May 2008
Tagging is folksonomy but folksonomy is not tagging !
Tagging is folksonomy but folksonomy is not tagging ! No I’m not looking to squeeze the maximum number of buzzwords into a title, but to make my point that folksonomy means more than simply tagging. Today it’s undoubtedly true that folksonomy is systematically associated with tagging. There are numerous definitions of folksonomy on the Internet […]
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What Is Art?
A good chuckle for the long holiday weekend: From the Atom Films creation Creature Comforts, a series of Claymation animals discuss what is art. The discussion encompasses a variety of media, from painting to dance to music. Watch for some of the sly jokes, such as the dogs playing poker (“DPP”) discussing art (the infamous […]
Is the Internet for the empty space in our brains?
I have always been fascinated how a seed turns into a tree, all the knowledge compacted into a tiny life form. I have always wondered why we humans appear to only use a fraction of our brains capacity, and what Einstein meant by training his brain. My Desktop/Browser Web 2.5 It is Saturday morning, I […]
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Managing assets in the age of global warming
DAM certainly reduces companies environmental footprint, it saves time, resources, energy and the strain on the planet. DAM is a no brainer in this respect. Managing assets in the age of global warming An environmental sustainability perspective on asset management technologies Companies that adopt sustainable business practices may be better positioned for the future than […]
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Once the hype is over the semantic web can save the world
Tim Berners Lee on the Semantic Web. A million clerks and agents processing the web data for the good of humanity and beyond. May we live in exciting times. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFY52CH6Bc] […]
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Widen introduces Mezzanine for Video Assets
The Mezzanine – Storing Video in your Digital Asset Management System Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 by Al Falaschi When we set up digital asset management systems for our clients, they typically contain a full mix of marketing’s brand assets….images, logos, brochures, audio and video. As corporate marketing departments are adding video production and video […]
Tagging and the Semantic Web
Tagging and the Semantic Web A while back I commented on a Tech Crunch article quoting my CEO regarding keyword searches in the Semantic Web space. My comment was later quoted on the Faviki blog, a Semantic startup involving tagging web pages with semantic wikipedia data. Finding this prompted me to start writing more about […]
Dymo Discpainter: First Impressions
For quite a while I’ve used an Epson R320 printer to label my showreel DVDs, but the end of that era has come. I now own a Dymo Discpainter. Lately my life has been about getting things out of the way that cost me needless time and effort. About four years ago I ditched Windows […]
Review: Sony HVR-Z7 & HVR-S270 1/3″ 3-CMOS HDV camcorders
The shoulder-mount S270 (left) and the handheld Z7 (right) share the same innards. The HVR-Z7 and HVR-S270 camcorders take Sony’s commitment to the HDV format to the next level. Both are based on the same core technology: three 1/3″ ClearVid CMOS sensors viewing the world behind interchangeable lenses. The cameras share the same EVF and […]
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