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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people what you ate for lunch. I’ve written extensively about Twitter’s use cases , but it’s biggest power is in information sharing. Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing.

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Web 3.0

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, August 27, 2011 -- Web 3.0: Concepts, Technologies and Evolving Business Models. dramatic shift in business and technology is taking place as the Social Web (Web 2.0) evolves into the Semantic Web (Web 3.0). Networks link spartphones, in-car computer, televisions, and home media networks.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views).

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. They had no mantra, and a limited vision to connect mainframe computers to share academic information.

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

socalTECH

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. A lot of the legacy technology which exists in this space has been hardware-based.

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

socalTECH

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. Is this a subscription or do these publishers buy software?

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