Swirrl: Newly Launched Semantic Web Wiki (16)
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Swirrl is a wiki-like application that was built using Semantic Web technologies and launched as a beta last week. We heard about it in the comments to our post about the lack of commercial RDF applications on the Web. As with most Semantic Web apps, it's a little difficult to describe what Swirrl is. On its homepage Swirrl is said to be "like a wiki, but better." The further explanation is that it's a web ...
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heidigoseek said:
Swirrl is a wiki like app built with the semantic web in mind. The post points out that like most semantic web apps, it's difficult to explain. It also points out that swirrl was difficult to use initially. But one comment that is key to semantic web, "The idea is that users will be entering semantic mark-up, without necessarily knowing they're doing it." I think this is where semantic web needs to be in order for it to work properly.
pascal shared as favorite Evernote Hits a Homerun With API, Data Portability (31)
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Note-taking and Optical Character Recognition service Evernote may not have a whole lot of users yet, but the users it does have absolutely love it. There's a whole lot more to love, and more reasons to use Evernote, with a slew of announcements the company made today. Freshly announced were support for automation through scripting, full XML data imports and exports and the much anticipated Application Programming Interface (API) that will let 3rd parties integrate ...
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Matt said:
"Freshly announced were support for automation through scripting, full XML data imports and exports and the much anticipated Application Programming Interface (API) that will let 3rd parties integrate Evernote into their applications."
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D. Lambert said:
I've been using Evernote since it was a Windows-only product, and I love the direction they're taking this product. Highly recommended.
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walkah said:
awesome
What’s after the Social Web? (13)
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I’m sitting in Union Square SF on a Saturday night at Starbucks getting some additional analysis completed on the Wave report, which should be publishing in a few weeks. I can’t but help think about some trends that I’ve been hearing from multiple people. On Friday, I had a meeting with an SVP of Yahoo, to learn about some of the redesign coming to the homepage. What’s interesting is the focus is on apps, not ...
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Devlin D said:
Oh to be a fly on the wall of some of those meetings about "what's next".
Twitter Presidential Debates: Sept 26 (5)
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Why: Why let the media pundits and political analysts have all the fun? You can now be an armchair critic, all you need is a twitter account, a TV, and internet access. [On the first Presidential Debate on Sept 26, 2008, YOU get to be the armchair political analyst and use Twitter to score the candidates] What is it: With the success of the previous Twitter SuperBowl ads rating last Jan, let’s repeat this community ...
List of Social Media Marketing Awards (3)
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Celebrating the hard work that companies invest in social media efforts is not only a way to feel good about our accomplishments, but also a way to learn from the successes of others. The following list of social media awards gives agencies, brands, vendors, and consultants their chance to strut their stuff. Please leave a comment if you know of other awards. I realize there are many awards for startups (like Demo or Techcrunch 50), ...
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Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person. It’s called Kimbia, and it’s got some interesting features, and seems to be focused mostly around creating campaigns. The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) No setup fees or anything else. That’s ...
What are learning platforms? (2)
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Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS). An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some ...
The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload (8)
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Today, for kicks, I tried to draw a map of all the places I write content, all the places it is displayed, and all the intermediate services that re-post my content in places other than where I originally write it. It's a spaghetti of interlinked services, and it's becoming unmanageable. I think it's just dumb luck that I haven't created an infinite loop of republishing so far. Adding one more service could push things over ...
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Tim said:
For all of the micro content, conversations, etc going on...they are all still disparate and unconnected silos of conversation. How do we take all of these conversations and bring them together in a filtered and sensical way?
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Jeremy Wagstaff said:
amen to this. Something's gotta give. Though I'm not sure Rafe's solution--the hub--is the answer. I follow a blog because I'm interested in the person writing it. But I'm not necessarily going to be interested in every tweet they utter.
Zoho to Launch App Store for Database Creator (1)
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If you’ve been following Zoho’s company blog closely the past several days, you’ll know that the company has written in a memo explaining that its Creator service, a database application platform, would be undergoing “scheduled maintenance.” However one chooses to decipher those words, the company has subsequently let known that, come September 29, it will debut an application store for Creator’s user base. This news comes from this week’s Web 2.0 Expo, ending today. In ...
Google Chrome Will Support Add-Ons, User Scripts [Google Chrome] (23)
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InformationWeek confirms that Google Chrome will have add-ons, a move that could have an enormous impact on Chrome's viability among the power users and early adopters in the Firefox camp. In addition to regular extensions, Chrome will also support scripts à la Greasemonkey: "There's two different kinds of add-ons," [Google engineer Ojan] Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of ...
Importance of CRM in a Recession (1)
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Inside CRM carries a very good blog post on why CRM is very important during a recession period here . I will try and simplify and summarize it here.1. Deeper understanding of one's customer baseThis will make the sales and marketing depts more certain of being able to address the needs of the customer instead of just pushing to the customer. No one likes to be pushed around and more so when financial difficulties strike. ...
Is a Social Media Friend Really a Friend? (23)
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Would you trust a social media friend with your money? Your home? Your significant other? Your children? Your life? Your answer to those questions will determine whether or not you feel that friends, as used in social media, are friends like you had in school or if they’re better labeled as something else. The social media friend is the key ingredient that makes digital media social. Social media users have the ability to create a ...
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Mark Dykeman said:
felt obliged to share this post by an up-and-coming blogger. ;) Note: I did not include the Twitter shot of Robert Scoble, someone at Mashable.com did. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :D
Google Street View Now On Mobile Phones Everywhere (Except iPhone) (13)
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Back in May, Google demonstrated their Street View technology on their upcoming mobile OS, Android. The app looked great, and naturally everyone assumed that Street View was going to be a big selling point for the Android phones. However, Google has just announced a new version of Google Maps for Mobile which brings Street View to mobile phones everywhere with only one glaring exception: the iPhone. With Android only days away, was Google afraid of ...
Are You a Writer? | Copyblogger (10)
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I’m a writer. I spent over three decades unaware of this essential truth, but I’m ready to atone for my ignorance. For some reason, it never mattered that I’d been reading at least a book a week since my eyes could string the syllables together. I could never be a writer. Writing, I believed, was a spectator sport for me. I imagined the process as long, tedious, and certainly not something I was capable of. ...
Microsoft’s Real Problem: Facebook is the New Outlook, and Other ways that Remond is not Listening to Generation Y (76)
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Microsoft, for all its problems, is a great software company. Its core products, the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, still dominate their respective markets and, while they are continually facing more capable competition and hence have declining market share, Windows and Office remain strong product offerings. Yet, it is clear that something is rotten in the State of Redmond. A reading of Microsoft’s Annual Report only strengthens this conviction. For those that ...
Predictions for 2008's 'Giving Season' [1] (1)
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Lucy Bernholz, a nonprofit consultant, is making predictions for what the nonprofit world will experience in November and December, the two months when giving in America is usually highest because of the holiday season and the approaching conclusion of the tax year. Donations via mobile phones, the creation of donor-advised funds, and celebrity giving are among the trends she thinks will grow, she writes on her blog, Philanthropy 2173. Philanthropic tools she expects to fall ...
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