As reported on Seeking Alpha, Video on Demand provider, Netflix potentially face increased competition as a result of a US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) decision:
“A recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision is likely to increase competition for Netflix as it clears the way for new films to …
Continue reading »Based on the highly successful Stack Overflow Q&A site for developers, Semantic Overflow aims to provide a community oriented portal for asking and answering questions about Semantic Web technologies. There are currently 263 questions (at the time of writing) covering a variety of Semantic Web and metadata questions, such as:…
Continue reading »As reported on Tech Crunch, document aggregator, Scribd claims that abandoning Flash in favour of HTML5 has helped increase levels of user engagement and that the move has paid off for them as a result:
“In early May, Scribd announced its plans to ditch Adobe’s Flash and began …
Continue reading »Now everyone is talking about HTML5, many DAM vendors will be looking to extend their Flash video support with an HTML5 compatible player also to add to the ever-growing stack of video delivery platforms which many need to support (including QuickTime and Silverlight in a number of cases). The template.com …
Continue reading »As discussed on the Sencha blog last week in this article by Michael Mullany, HTML5 is gathering pace and rapidly becoming commonplace on mobile devices due to the widespread use of the Webkit browser engine and because replacement rates are much faster than desktop or notebook PCs.
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Continue reading »As reported last week on SemanticWeb.com, Adaptive Semantics has been bought out by key customer, The Huffington Post. This news follows the acquisition of Collexis by Elsevier as reported last week and there does seem to be a trend for publishers buying into Semantic technology.
Adaptive Semantics provide …
Continue reading »Master Data Management skills are in hot demand according to this Information Management post by Jim Ericson:
““Somewhere between the big picture of an enterprise architect and the self-funding project mandate to the middle manager is where MDM talent finds itself right now. Many of you already know this …
Continue reading »As reported by the BBC, Getty Images have recently announced that they are extending an arrangement they have with Flickr to resell images shot by professional and semi-pro Flickr users to their commercial clients under a dedicated ‘Flickr Collection’. Now all Flickr users can opt into this scheme.
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Continue reading »Writing on StreamingMedia.com, Jeroen Wijering and Zachary Ozer from LongtailVideo.com (developers of the JW Media Players used by numerous sites and DAM systems) take Apple to task over their blurring of the lines between actual HTML 5 standards and the Apple-specific Safari/QuickTime technology stack. Their article: “Note to …
Continue reading »Nate Andreson, writing in ars technica discusses the findings and recommendation of an IEEE working group into a more lenient form of DRM (Digital Rights Management) which would not penalise users for tenuous IPR infringements which are typically ignored with physical products (e.g. lending a friend a copy of a …
Continue reading »The Scottish Linked Data Interest Group will hold its first meeting on 13th July at the Outhouse in Edinburgh (Scotland). Readers based in Scotland may be interested in the group which has recently been formed by Bill Roberts who is co-founder of semantic web development consultants, Swrrrl. According to …
Continue reading »In “Cyborg Metadata“, Matt Moore of Innotecture proposes that in the future, metadata will increasingly be managed by machines and users rather than subject experts or information architecture specialists. The abstract is below:
“Traditionally, metadata has been managed by experts. This article suggests that in the future, …
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