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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

This tendency poses a challenge when teaching any new technology (and Semantic Web technology in particular); the key to communicating the innovative value of the new technology lies exactly at the point where previous experience fails to be applicable. Moments While the Semantic Web standards are fundamentally very simple (e.g.,

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

From a user perspective, on any given day you may connect to Facebook or Gmail or even a business application like Salesforce.com, and find that there are new features, new layout or organization of screen elements, new keystroke patterns, even new semantics associated with privacy, security, or data entered and displayed.

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Overview: Extracting article text from HTML documents

tomazkovacic.com

The majority of methods presented in research papers from that epoch are nowadays useless due to strong assumptions and heuristics that don’t apply on today’s web development practices. Keep in mind, that back then, folks were still making websites with microsoft frontpage.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Real-Time Web. Real-Time Web. If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." "If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." Towards the end of 2010, Wired magazine even declared that "the Web is dead." ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. The Semantic Web standards - RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS are new technologies whose proponents hope will be adopted on a wide scale. This alleviates the problem for RDF.