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Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 26, 2008
In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data. Available as a part of the Talking with Talis semantic web podcast series, the interview (listen here) is summarized on interviewer Paul Miller's new ZDNet blog...
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Ask A Good Product Manager
via Tyner Blain by Scott Sehlhorst on February 25, 2008
Ask A Good Product Manager is a new blog just launched by Jeff Lash, who also authors How To Be A Good Product Manager, one of our favorite blogs.Why Have a Separate MediumJeff runs a blog with a very distinctive style - each article starts with advice on how to be a Bad product manager, and the contrasting advice on how to be a Good product manager. Each of us can choose. It is a great...
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London offices too expensive for startups?
via TechCrunch UK by Mike Butcher on February 25, 2008
It’s a truism to say property is expensive in London. And the latest victim of rising prices is - ironically enough - real estate search engine Nestoria, which is moving out of its current home “because the building is to be renovated and turned into luxury flats.” However, despite the nostalgia associated with “little quirks like the window that never closed, the stolen furniture…”...
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A Day Of Free Stuff
via Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise by stevecla01 on February 25, 2008
Hot on the heels of Chris Anderson's Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business post at Wired comes TrendWatching's latest report "Free Love". FREE LOVE: the ongoing rise of free, valuable stuff that's available to consumers online and offline. From AirAsia tickets to Wikipedia, and from diapers to music.You can grab their report in full from the link above and in PDF format. The...
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RBI for Sale: Coverage Continues
via One Man & His Blog by Adam Tinworth on February 20, 2008
Lots of coverage by bloggers of Reed Elsevier's decision to divest itself of Reed Business information - my employer.PaidContent speculates about an RBI IPO:And Davis isn't in any hurry to sell RBI either. "It's early days -we're ruling nothing in and nothing out". That includes an IPO for theunit. "We are very open and flexible on how we do this and also...
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Reed Business Information Divestment: Nothing Ruled In Or Out
via paidContent.org by Robert Andrews on February 20, 2008
From the earnings call: Reed Elsevier's (NYSE: RUK) decision to divest its Reed Business Information unit looks like it's designed to protect against an ad recession. CEO Sir Crispin Davis talked up the company's emergence in to online "workflow solutions" rather than publishing. "This business is more advertising-based, it is inherently more cyclical, it's operating in...
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Reed Business Information To be Sold Off; "Reducing Exposure To Cyclicality"
via paidContent.org by Rafat Ali on February 20, 2008
Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK), the Anglo-Dutch B2B media giant, which just announced a $4.1 billion acquisition and its 2007 results, also dropped another big one: it is going to sell off its Reed Business Information arm, "reducing exposure to advertising markets and cyclicality". RBI owns some big brands such as Variety, New Scientist, Publishers Weekly, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and...
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Tesla Gets $40M, Says We'll See Sedan This Year
via Wired: Top Stories by Autopia on February 19, 2008
Investors give Tesla Motors another $40 million to get the Roadster rolling down the assembly line and ramp up development of the company's next car.
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The simplest podcast API ever
via Scripting News by (author unknown) on February 17, 2008
A new service from BlogTalkRadio...Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you're done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that's an MP3 of the call. The address of the feed is a function of the phone number you called from. I just called in a podcast from my Nokia N95, which they added to this feed:http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/8583429663...
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