Paul Jacobson

Category: Semantic Web

  • AltPlatform and a conversation about the Open Web

    AltPlatform and a conversation about the Open Web

    I’ve been a big believer in the Open Web for some time and I was pretty excited to discover that Richard MacManus and a few other writers have launched AltPlatform.org, a non-profit publication focused on the Open Web.

  • The curious announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious

    The curious announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious

    I’m not sure what to make of the announcement that Pinboard has acquired Delicious. If Maciej Ceglowski did, indeed, buy the service to preserve the bookmarks then that is a good thing for the open Web.

  • Instapaper sold to Pinterest – at first I was afraid

    Instapaper sold to Pinterest – at first I was afraid

    The news that Instapaper sold to Pinterest shocked me from my early evening domestic routine. At first, it seemed like a mistake. It couldn’t be true. And then it sank in.

  • IFTTT v Pinboard

    IFTTT v Pinboard

    In the IFTTT v Pinboard battle, the users are hurt the most. It looks like Pinboard will not be supported by IFTTT when IFTTT transitions to its new platform. That sucks.

  • Talking to your machines

    Voice recognition on mobile devices has the potential to be revolutionary. I (mostly) love my iPhone but Siri isn’t particularly effective as a voice-based personal assistant. Google’s voice recognition, on the other hand, is easily better than Siri in every way. Google’s voice recognition is more accurate and consistently gives me better results and doesn’t…

  • Wolfram Language for legal frameworks

    I just watched the demo video for the Wolfram Language and although I don’t understand a fair amount of what was demoed in the video, I wonder how this could be applied to legal frameworks? It’s a symbolic language and integrates with a vast amount of knowledge and recognises plain language queries in addition to…

  • Antisocial media

    I’ve had a recurring theme in my life the last week or so and it is pretty ironic considering much of the last week was spent at (and participating in) a social media conference: with all the social/digital devices and services we have available to us, we are remarkably antisocial. We talk about social all…

  • Mozilla: underestimated and misunderstood

    ReadWriteWeb published a post titled “Mozilla Makes A Better Case for Web Apps in Minutes Than Google Did in Months” which reminds me how Mozilla is probably one of the most underestimated and even misunderstood organisations on the Web today. Mozilla is the organisation behind the second most popular browser on the Web: Firefox. Firefox…