Month: July 2010
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Google Aquires the Semantic Web, or Why Metaweb Matters
Isaac Asimov Entry on Freebase With Google’s aquisition of Metaweb the searchopolis takes a stake in the seemingly-forever-emerging Semantic Web, a concept with endlessly verbose standards and few demonstrable applications for all it promises. I yawned when I read of Google’s move, remembering a few years ago when I explored Freebase, Metaweb’s semantic database. I…
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Diversifying Technofauna
Pager, Tamagotchi and Psion Organiser Pager, Tamagotchi and Psion Organiser Credit: steve greer Every time a new device comes around, the self-proclaimed techsperts start declaring the death of older devices. It’s boring to keep hearing critics say things like the Smartphone is the “death of laptops,” the Kindle is the “death of books,” and the…
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The n Types of Programmers
In the tradition of Matt Groening’s Life in Hell… Abstraction Guy “We really need a Factory Pattern for that Factory Pattern.” Pros: Produces really really really loosely-coupled systems. Cons: Output will never escape the layers of code. Buzzword Bumbler “This enterprise needs to move to a service-oriented paradigm in the cloudplex to encapsulate polydactylism!” Pros:…