Earth Day special: on big issues, breaking news, and using data and tech to get insights and build stories

Earth Day special: on big issues, breaking news, and using data and tech to get insights and build stories

Earth day is one of those things pretty much everyone can stand behind. With virtually all scientists and the vast majority of the public acknowledging the fact that climate change is an imminent threat that must be dealt with, it marks an occasion for awareness and action. This year in particular, it coincides with a […]

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WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud

WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud

WSO2 is a notable Enterprise Application Integration & Cloud vendor. They are notable not just because of what they do, but also because of how they do it. WSO2 offers an integrated platform featuring an Enterprise Service Bus and solutions that span Identity, Governance, Business Process Management, API Management, Big Data Analytics and Cloud. And […]

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Intellectual property thoughts: on Ideas and Patents

Intellectual property thoughts: on Ideas and Patents

Recently we have seen 2 US court rulings that could bring on important changes in intellectual property, one related to Patents & Ideas and one to Copyright & APIs. Even though at first it may seem this is only relevant for the US, as anyone who has ever been involved in IT Entrepreneurship can tell […]

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Personal Data from the Source: How and Why Consumers and Marketers Can Connect

Personal Data from the Source: How and Why Consumers and Marketers Can Connect

We saw in the previous posts a couple of examples of online marketing gone wrong. The common thread for these examples, and others like them, is the desire marketers have to reach out to new audiences – which is perfectly normal. But in many cases what they are doing is using a new medium – […]

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The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure

The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure

Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on the phone is not exactly the most unobtrusive, effective or sophisticated strategy. It’s the kind of thing I would expect and advise especially technology companies to stay away from, for a number of reasons. This is an account of the […]

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Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012

Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012

Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that On the opening day of www2012, Tim Berners Lee gave an inspirational keynote. I found it to be inspirational because it focused on what matters most, imho: the social and political aspects of technical design and decisions and the interplay among […]

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A report on the 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference

A report on the 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference

This year’s edition of ESWC, which took place between May 30th and June 3rd in Crete, was the first one in the series of Semantic Web Conferences under the ‘Extended’ (instead of former ‘European’) title and justified this by being the scene for the lively international Semantic Web community. In a nutshell, it was interesting and […]

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