Comparing data clouds

If we put nearby the semantic 2008 and 2009 data cloud of the LinkingOpenData project we can really see how fast semantic data is growing. Here we have a graphic representation of databases in february 2008 :
And here we have the same representation in July 2009 :

Awsome isn’t it? This is a very motivating reason to work in [...]

RDF and SPARQL for LAMP systems

Following the tool report started with Triplify, today we find Arc a open source projet who adds some classes to PHP (4/5 version) in order to add to websites easy RDF support:

A tool for mashup-friendly web documents

A web application hybrid or mashup, uses the composite nature of the internet. Triplify provides a PHP building block to easily add semantics to Web applications based in the data saved in relational databases, in order to facilitate the mashup composition. As they say in the website the core feature of Triplify is to exploit [...]

Piggy Bank and more and more

Do you remember Piggy bank, a javascript-based very useful screenscrapper that extract data from web pages?
The same research team is now working in exhibits : an information visualizer in webpage form. This is a  JSON serialized RDF mashup of information. This project try to achieve a very well known goal of the semantic comunity : [...]

Ubimedia and the mobile as universal remote control approach

In most of the research about ubiquitous computing the mobile phone have a central position because it is an everyday / everywhere object . In emergent countries for example, people must choose between pc/internet expenses or mobile phone expenses, and guess what ? mobile phone is winning! So we can supposed that this object will [...]

Carville on digital homes research

Razorfish living labs experimental test of table games for Microsoft Surface..Tired of waiting for your car to be repaired? You can play in the waiting room with a game that makes you remember that your car is not already repaired and that you’re stocked in a waiting room while in the game every body seems [...]

And now Google Voice is on the run..

Today Goggle enters in the run of mobile phones market with the new Google voice service. Formerly  Grand Central this telecommunication service provision an unique number who centralizes all the voice communications. If we can supposed (as we do) that this will be followed by a good number of APIs and Webservices to support new [...]

iPhone remote control

I ask to myself how will I fight for the remote control with my brother if we both have “the power” in our pockets…? I’m curious about the “how to share” rules that digital homes will produce.

U-city

Thanks to korean people, we have a real-life example of what ubimedia could be in the futur and also  what can we do to regulate and humanize this new kind of urbanism.
Read  : Songdo in NYTimes
@ Wikipedia : A ubiquitous city or U-city is a city or region with ubiquitous information technology. All information systems [...]

My home is twitting

Harware hackers used Twitter for home notifications. A few interesting hacks of Twitter API that could be used in ubiquitous services: my plants are thristy, my dog will be hungry etc..
Read More  in : Wired

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