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I was at Moseley Bar Camp last Sunday and there were some great sessions. Andy Mabbett stood up to lead a discussion entitled Let’s Play Tag: recent developments and emerging issues in the use of tagging for added semantic richness.

Andy was looking for discussion on how to solve the problem of ambiguity in hash tags - a popular technique for categorising community tweets on twitter. His example is classic event tagging, the tag for the event was #mbcamp which works fine for the duration of a Sunday afternoon event, but what if you want tags to be more enduring?

This video explains really well what I've been doing the past few years at Talis.

from Official Google Research Blog: Large-scale graph computing at Google.

If you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, social networks, popularized by Web 2.0, are graphs that describe relationships among people. Transportation routes create a graph of physical connections among geographical locations. Paths of disease outbreaks form a graph, as do games among soccer teams, computer network topologies, and citations among scientific papers. Perhaps the most pervasive graph is the web itself, where documents are vertices and links are edges. Mining the web has become an important branch of information technology, and at least one major Internet company has been founded upon this graph. Just like Map/Reduce, Logic programming or OO, having more ways of thinking about a problem is a good thing :-)

From: Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advise the Government on public information delivery - PublicTechnology.net

The Prime Minister has announced the appointment of the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee as expert adviser on public information delivery. The announcement was part of a statement on constitutional reform made in the House of Commons this afternoon.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is currently director of the World Wide Web Consortium which overseas the web's continued development. He will head a panel of experts who will advise the Minister for the Cabinet Office on how government can best use the internet to make non-personal public data as widely available as possible.

He will oversee the work to create a single online point of access for government held public data and develop proposals to extend access to data from the wider public sector, including selecting and implementing common standards. He will also help drive the use of the internet to improve government consultation processes.

TimBL talked about this at TED2009 and the video is below:

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Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function.

From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store.

There are thousands of models of cell phones that have hit the streets between 1983 and now.

We’ve picked a few of the more popular and unusual ones to take you through the history of this device that most of us consider a part of our everyday lives. from The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009 | Webdesigner Depot.

Are you writing multi-tenant software? Are you using RDF at all? Do you want to keep track of your tenants?

You might want to comment on the first draft of the new Multi-Tenant Configuration Schema.

1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born. from One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.