CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-24 02:01:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-23 22:20:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Rough cut demo of soon to be released app for Personal Identity control. #YouID #WebID #LinkedData #iPhone

2013-05-23 21:48:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-23 16:39:07 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Can I have the old G+ UI back? 

2013-05-22 13:24:00 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Spotter: +Melvin Carvalho 

#BitCoin   #Currency30   #Money30  

2013-05-20 06:04:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This. Is. Hilarious.

Some of the jokes are too inside the beltway. But even if you know nothing about the VC game, you are still going to smile.

If you've had the privilege of pitching to VCs, you are going to die laughing.

#gotesla   #creativity  

Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs

2013-05-20 05:56:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-15 16:11:52 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

How Globo is putting Linked Data to powerful use. 

SeeAlso:

1. http://bit.ly/13lv8IR -- Linked Data URI (Webby Super Key) that resolves to a description of the reference presentation on Slideshare. 

#LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #OpenData   #BigData   #SPARQL   #NoSQL   #NewSQL   #Web30   #Globo  

2013-05-14 22:36:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #BigData   #Cars   #Renault   #Web30   #OpenData   #LOD  

2013-05-14 14:01:00 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

#OpenGov   #OpenData   #LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #BigData  

2013-05-13 21:14:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/42ca6762-bbfc-11e2-82df-00144feab7de.html#axzz2TCvnpau3

2013-05-13 19:53:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My Interview with Roberto Zicari (editor of the Object Database Management system portal) about a variety of issues (past and present) associated with database management, access, and integration.

Full interview is at: http://bit.ly/12oKPkO

Related

[1] http://www.odbms.org -- Object Database Management Systems portal

[2] http://bit.ly/YQMHo2  -- Sample queries showing Virtuoso 7.0 effect on latest LOD Cloud Cache (comprised of 51 Billion+ relations)

[3] http://bit.ly/17oSWk9  -- Column Store Tutorial from Peter Boncz and +Daniel Abadi 

[4] http://slidesha.re/13RzSfq -- Prof. Michael Stonebraker talks about NoSQL and NewSQL matters re. Big Data

[5] http://bit.ly/166kEnC -- IEEE Data Engineering Technical Bulletin which includes coverage of Colunn-Stores and Virtuso

[5] http://bit.ly/18tkbKU -- Download page forcom... more »

2013-05-13 17:20:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is incredibly bad news for our planet.

2013-05-13 11:19:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

More of the same :-(

#Web20   #Privacy   #Security   #Identity   #RDBMS  

2013-05-10 22:16:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

*Content Type Handling Importance!"

Simple example (will explain further via comments thread, if this isn't obvious) of how Web 2.0 patterns end up diminishing rather than showcasing the power of the Web's core architecture: 

Dropbox

I placed an X.509 certificate on Dropbox. Then I try a simple HTTP GET via  using curl:

curl -I https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11096946/IdentityCards/KingsleyUyiIdehen-Cert.cer

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
accept-ranges: bytes
cache-control: max-age=0
Content-length: 930
Content-Type: chemical/x-cerius
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:07:11 GMT
etag: 1662n
pragma: public
Server: nginx
x-dropbox-request-id: f251ea670a3cbc67
X-RequestId: c460c03fa842e5b8314f02cb27f252b6
x-robots-tag: noindex,nofollow
x-server-response-time: 612
Connection: keep-alive
more »

2013-05-09 23:53:06 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

seeAlso: http://bit.ly/ZLGPYr -- Linked Data URI for this presentation (so you can toggle between metadata and the actual presentation). 

#SocialWeb   #SocialMedia   #Marketing   #PR   #SDQ   #LinkedData   #Web30  

2013-05-09 21:03:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

President Obama issues historic executive order making open data the new default in federal government
http://e-pluribusunum.com/2013/05/09/president-obama-issues-historic-executive-order-making-open-data-the-new-default-in-federal-government/

What questions do you have for U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel   about the EO and the associated policy and initiatives?

2013-05-09 17:28:43 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google Knowledge Graph Meme Confusion

The meme:

"Things not Strings" is utterly inaccurate and a confusion vector.

A more accurate meme goes like this:
 "Links not Strings for Referring to Things"

or even:

"Resolvable URIs not Strings for Referring to Things"

Why? 

Because a semantically enhanced Web of (Linked) Data is all about using de-referencable URIs (e.g. HTTP URIs) to denote (refer to) things.  This kind of denotation leverages references as data value types thereby enabling an identifier resolve to its meaning i.e., a representation of the description of what it denotes. 

Funnily enough, this is how the Web has always worked. The only thing that's new is the increase in semantic fidelity of the HTTP URI based relations that underly the Web :-)

#IOTD   ... more »

2013-05-09 14:20:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Privacy is only dead to those that don't actually understand what privacy is all about!

#Identity   #Privacy   #SocialWeb   #SocialMedia   #Web   #Internet   #WebID   #YouID   #NetID   #PDS   #SocialWeb   #SocialMedia  

2013-05-09 14:11:58 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 2 +1s)

#Privacy   #Identity   #Nymwars   #PDS   #Internet   #Web   #Entropy  

2013-05-09 00:13:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Permanent Identifiers for the Web, Project Launches

http://manu.sporny.org/2013/perma-id/

Web applications that deal with data on the web often need to specify and use URLs that are very stable. They utilize services such as purl.org to ensure that applications using their URLs will always be re-directed to a working website. These “permanent URL” redirection services operate kind of like a switchboard, connecting requests for information with the true location of the information on the Web. These switchboards can be reconfigured to point to a new location if the old location stops working.

How Does it Work?

If the concept sounds a bit vague... read more here:

http://manu.sporny.org/2013/perma-id/

 #w3c #permaid

2013-05-09 12:47:26 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New LOD Cloud Cache

We've just completed a reload of the LOD cloud cache [1][2][3][4] using Virtuoso 7.0 [2].

The reload of this instance was driven by the need to deliver a LOD Cloud cache with better data quality, as opposed to one driven by the goal of demonstrating big data analytics over massive data volumes.

Following the reload, as per usual, we have a technical report [5] demonstrating the implications of the Virtuoso 7.0's architecture.

BTW -- we need this instance to top 50 Billion triples so please provide URLs to any significant datasets that can help get us to this goal :-)

Links:

1. http://lod-cloud.net/

2. http://bit.ly/11T0Zku -- LOD Cloud Cache Report (includes queries and times)

3. http://lod.openlinksw.com --- HTML based UI for Text Search, SPARQL query building, and Faceted... more »

2013-05-07 19:39:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#LinkedData   #DBpedia   #LOD   #NewSQL   #SemanticWeb   #NoSQL   #Web30   #BigData  

2013-05-06 17:18:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#eCommerce   #eCommerce30   #SDQ   #SEO   #SchemaOrg   #GoodRelations  

2013-05-03 20:15:35 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#Economy   #BRIC   #Africa   #Economy30  

2013-04-30 20:01:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #OpenData   #BigData   #Web30   #DBMS   #NewSQL   #NoSQL   #OpenGov  

2013-04-30 11:21:52 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Identity is about You not Them!

Excerpts from a post by +Doc Searls that explains the ongoing problem with Identity, Authentication, and Namespaces. Basically, yet another example of why we need to leverage the in-built architecture of the Web with regards to Web-scale verifiable Identity. 

"I believe, as do more many others, that the only solution is for those with the damn names to be in charge of those names, and to identify themselves in their own ways to the many different systems that require putting those names in their namespaces."

You should be the overseer, manager, and controller of your Identity. 

The full article is at: http://hvrd.me/15WGadU .

Related

1. http://bit.ly/UDlwc6 -- using a combination of identifiers and authentication protocols to deliver Web-scale verifiable Identity grounded inexis... more »

2013-04-29 20:48:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I've been admiring this man ever since I first heard his talk on how school kills creativity. It's what transformed my latent discontent into a hunger for alternatives. And it's what makes me a little less afraid of doing things the-other-way.

“There’s a world that exists wether or not you exist. The world of other people, events, other circumstances... But there’s another world that exists only because you exist, that came into being when you did. A world of your private passions, your motivations, your aspirations, your hopes and your talents.” - Sir Ken Robinson

http://youtu.be/w9-SYa_82TI

2013-04-29 20:43:10 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

My kind of saying...;-)

But then there is the debate on...what is the "right way"?  Or maybe I like to go to the right because I am a right-hander?  Or maybe the one on  the "left" is going the wrong way? How does he know?

Decisions, decisions...lol.

But the moral of the story is: don't buy into the Herd Syndrome.  Be your own individual, with your own choices, decisions, likes and dislikes and own up to it. :-)

2013-04-29 20:08:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#Entropy   #Privacy   #BigData   #Data   #OpenData   #LinkedData  

2013-04-29 14:38:50 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

#LOD   #LinkedData   #BBC   #NLP   #SemanticWeb   #BigData  

2013-04-29 15:23:35 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Latest Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Report

Here's the gist of the recent LOD mailing list post by +Chris Bizer  about the latest edition of the Berlin SPARQL Benchmark for SPARQL compliant RDF databases and stores. 

Benchmark Description

Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (BSBM) is a benchmark for measuring the performance of storage systems that expose SPARQL endpoints. The benchmark is built around an e-commerce use case in which a set of products is offered by different vendors.The benchmark defines two query mixes:

1. Search and navigation which simulates a consumer looking for a product via a Web portal [1].

2. Business Intelligence use case which simulates different stakeholders peforming analytical queries against the dataset. The query mix relies heavily on SPARQL 1.1 constructs like GROUP BY and COUNT() and is designed to touch large portions oft... more »

2013-04-27 21:46:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#Database   #BigData   #RDBMS   #DBMS   #TripleStore   #NoSQL   #NewSQL   #SQL   #SPARQL  

2013-04-27 18:13:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#History   #Technology   #Computing   #Hypermedia   #Hypertext   #Web   #LinkedData   #SemanticWeb  

2013-04-26 13:13:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A good look at the startup scene in Australia: 
http://www.zdnet.com/au/startups-could-contribute-109bn-to-economy-by-2033-pwc-7000014316/

2013-04-26 10:54:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#BigData   #OpenData   #LinkedData   #LOD   #SemanticWeb   #VLDB   #Web30  

2013-04-26 10:49:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #Web30   #Thesaurus   #DBMS   #MDM   #SPARQL  

2013-04-25 17:04:49 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

#BigData   #OpenData   #LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #Data   #OKFN   #LOD  

2013-04-25 14:23:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://beta.data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

2013-04-23 20:22:18 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 11 +1s)

Virtuoso 7.0 is game-changing hybrid RDF & SQL Column-Store DBMS for handling Big Data challenges associated with:

1. cost-effectiveness -- as result of new column-store data compaction technology 

2. performance -- array (vectorized) execution of queries across multiple threads per CPU core

3. scalability -- scale from multiple instances of Virtuoso per machine to multiple instances per collection of machines in a shared-nothing cluster

4. security -- use fine-grained access control lists (ACLs) and data access policies that are driven by entity relationship semantics to  control data access 

5. heterogeneous data integration -- merge data across a wide variety of data sources extending from existing SQL RDBMS systems to file servers and Web services.

Additional Information:

1. Press Release -- http://bit.ly/ZGGJE9
2.50... more »

2013-04-23 10:50:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Access Relational Databases as Virtual RDF Graphs  #sql   #rdf   #sparql   #mapping   #serving   #linkeddata   #hosting   #host

2013-04-23 10:49:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-23 10:48:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-23 10:47:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

17 workshops were accepted to ISWC in October.  Are you coming?

http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/workshops

2013-04-22 21:56:28 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Upcoming Virtuoso 7.0 Webinar covering how Big Data challenges are alleviated via the fusion of RDF and SQL (column-store) database management technology.

Link: http://bit.ly/17Krjzi

#NewSQL   #NoSQL   #RDF   #DBMS   #RDBMS   #BigData   #LinkedData   #SemanticWeb   #Web30   #Data30  

2013-04-23 01:48:18 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Tim Berners-Lee is a very modest chap, so it's really all too easy for others to assume the WWW and its architecture are some kind of accident. For instance, there's a really old misconception that the Semantic Web is a Web afterthought whereas in reality they are one and the same, envisioned at the very same time.

RDF is just a vehicle that emerged later on to address the Data and Logic fidelity issues required by the original Semantic Web vision. 

For those siloists out there, I urge you to go straight to: http://bit.ly/124u4en (the Web was never about imposing anything on anyone!). 


#SemanticWeb   #LinkedData   #AWWW   #Web30 (because #Web  2.0 is really a distracting downgrade of the original silo-less vision) #RDF   #BigData  

2013-04-22 15:35:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-22 15:31:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Start hacking on the Open PHACTS data warehouse now!

https://dev.openphacts.org/

2013-04-23 10:46:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Important Link Summary for upcoming International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2013:

1. http://bit.ly/11mdV3K -- Poster Demos (note: one of the hidden gems of this event re. discovery of future teams for next generation killer apps) 

2. http://bit.ly/11mdxlR -- Final Call for Papers (note: nice sources of deep research on a variety of areas relating to Semantic Web exploitation).

#ISWC2013   #SemanticWeb   #BigData   #RDF #DBMS #RDBMS #Web30 #BroadData #SmartData #LinkedData  

2013-04-21 21:18:01 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

#BitCoin   #Currency30   #Economy30   #Money30   #DigitalCash   #DigiCash