Archive for November, 2008

“A New Way of Linking People to Places”

Posted by admin on November 26th, 2008

I recently discovered this very cool project here in Galway called murmur. “Linking People to Places”? Sounds a lot like some Semantic Web or Linked Data thing. In a way it is, only it’s live and doesn’t (directly) involve the internet or URI. Instead, the people behind murmur have put up metal signs in different [...]

The Value of Advertising

Posted by admin on November 1st, 2008

So, ISWC2008 is over and I’m back in Galway. What did I learn this year?

There are more and more Semantic Web applications out there, and they are getting slicker and more user-friendly every year. The demo and poster session and the Semantic Web challenges clearly showed that. Some highlights were probably paggr (semantic widgets) by [...]