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Where the semantic web stumbled, linked data will succeed
In the same way that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman, Facebook’s OpenGraph Protocol is neither open nor a protocol. It is, however, an extremely straightforward and applicable standard for document metadata. From a strictly semantic viewpoint, OpenGraph is considered hardly worthy of comment: it is a frankenstandard, a mishmash of microformats and loosely-typed entities, lobbed casually into the semantic web world with hardly a backward glance. But this is not important. While OpenGraph avoids, or outright ignores, many of the problematic issues surrounding semantic annotation (see Alex Iskold’s excellent commentary on OpenGraph here on Radar), criticism focusing only on its technical purity is missing half of the equation. Facebook gets it right where other initiatives have failed. Such consumer causality is critical to the adoption of any semantic mark-up. Linked data intends to make the Web more interconnected and data-oriented. Related:
DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Of
DocVerse DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Collaboration is a key to success in any business, especially when you have a scattered team that needs to work on documents constantly. This is the gap that DocVerse is trying to fill. This sidebar is where all of DocVerse’s magic happens. It’s not just the instant collaboration though – there are also some great discussion and tracking features via the DocVerse sidebar. All in all, DocVerse is slick, easy to understand, and perfect for small and large businesses where the employees are used to using Microsoft Office to get things done. Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators.
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Open health data: Spurring better decisions and new businesses
As Network World reported this week, iPhone apps that could save your life have come to an App Store near you. “A growing number of developers are tapping into a treasure trove of U.S. government healthcare data and coming up with innovative iPhone apps that help consumers make better medical decisions,” wrote Carolyn Duffy Marsan. She was reporting on a trend that started at the National Institute of Medicine in May when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched its Community Health Data Initiative. Network World covered Medwatcher, Asthmapolis, and iTriage — the latter two also showed up here on Radar back in May. iTriage, a free app for iPhones, Android, Blackberry and other web-enabled devices, has enjoyed continued growth over the summer and fall, with nearly 1 million users to date, and a new iPad app. Peter Hudson, one of the physicians who founded Healthagen, the company that created iTriage, spoke with me at this week’s mHealth Summit. Related:
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ONTORULE Project: BuRO 2010
(workshop co-located with the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR2010, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy, September 22-24, 2010) Description of the Workshop It is a challenge in a business to enable the right people to interact in their own way with the right part of their business application. We distinguish between three views on the business organization: (1) the view of the business analyst using a formal and validated business model; (2) the view of the knowledge engineer via ontologies and rules, and (3) the view of the IT department via an operationalization in applications. We can glue these views together via an end-to-end point solution: (1) conceptualization and where possible acquisition of business models and their transformation into ontologies and rules; (2) their management and maintenance, and (3) the transparent operationalization in IT applications. The vision at the heart of the Semantic Web is of high relevance in a business setting as well.
Carriers Have a Hunch There’s Money in User Data: Tech News «
Wireless carriers, which have been sitting on a largely untouched goldmine of user data, may be poised to start tapping into their mother lode, according to Chris Dixon, CEO and co-founder of recommendation and personalization site Hunch. Dixon said he’s been meeting with operators that are looking at deploying Hunch to help with recommendations and personalization. The list includes some Asian carriers but at least one major telecom in the U.S. For now, the partnership may start with recommendations for apps or ringtones. By combining Hunch’s technology with their data, the carriers can position themselves to be more useful to users and avoid the dreaded fate of becoming a commodity providing undifferentiated network access. “They don’t want to be cut out by Android and Apple and become a dumb pipe,” Dixon said. Hunch, if you’re not familiar, is a personalization service that takes data and answers provided by users and creates recommendations based on their information.
