Semantic Web Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. The report discusses the emergence of semantic technologies for consumer and enterprise applications, and the evolution from Web 2.0 to the so-called… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews LongJump: Database in the Cloud LongJump, a company based out of Sunnyvale, California, has introduced a Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) product that offers you an easy way to build a database application backend for your website and business. With LongJump, database setup is simplified - you no longer need to worry about server provisioning, redundancy, backups, patching, or any… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Yahoo! to Provide OpenID - Will It Take the Next Step? Yahoo! announced this morning that the company will authenticate the identities of its 248 million users if they chose to login to OpenID supporting sites with their Yahoo! ID. Like the AOL announcement of roughly the same thing in February of last year, the key question is whether Yahoo! will do anything substantive with OpenID or whether, like… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple Last100 Macworld Coverage: Analysis of Keynote, Jobs on Kindle, BBC on iTunes With the Macworld conference in full effect at the Moscone Center in San Fancisco, our network blog last100 has been keeping tabs on all the juicy tid-bits to emerge from Apple's annual party. While we already know about the big announcements to come out of Macworld -- like the Apple TV 2, iTunes movie rentals, and the Macbook Air -- last100 has… Josh Catone View comments
Data Portability Idealware Releases Technical Guide to Data Portability Nonprofit tech analysts Idealware released a collection of resources today that anyone can use to evaluate APIs under consideration. Titled Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features, the guide at its core is a worksheet that walks you through more than 30 different technical questions you should ask… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments