Archive for the ‘Social Media & Semantic Web’ Category
BuddyPress Privacy Component About to Launch
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Here’s a brief update on my efforts to provide a suite of privacy filtering services to BuddyPress’ core components. With the release of BP v1.2.6, the last of the essential ingredients are now in place to allow my Privacy Component to function. On November 8, 2010, I plan to make the component available to all via the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can learn more on BP-Privacy.com.
To celebrate this occasion, I am offering two specials: 40% off of the standard BuddyPress Privacy Component Support Plan (BPCSP) and the other 25% discount on advertising rates. All but two of the first month’s ad spots are sold. So, if you want to get in early and lock in these prerelease rates, act now.
Tags: BuddyPress, privacy, SocialWeb, WordPress Plugins
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Web 3.0 Smartups: the New Web Business Space
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010<Smartups Series Part 4 of 5>
This is the fourth article in my five-part series about Powering Startups to Become Smartups. In part 1, we discussed why Web-2.0 startups were stuck in the box and how in-the-box thinking leads to missed opportunities. In part 2, we discussed the most salient aspect of Web 3.0, the Web of Data and the emergence of the Social Web. Read more »
Tags: angel funding, exit strategy, investing, leadership, MicroAngels, smartups, SocialWeb, startups, venture capital, Web 3.0, Web of Data
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Web 3.0 Smartups: Moving Beyond the Relational Database
Friday, September 17th, 2010<Smartups Series Part 3 of 5>
Today’s Web-based services are dealing with substantially higher volumes of data. But the challenges of data storage and management in the Social Web go beyond the issue of increasing data volume. In Web 3.0, data are significantly more complex and difficult to define ahead of time.
Unfortunately, many existing Web-2.0 startups continue to use only a RDBMS (relational database management system) model for meeting all their data storage and management needs—and some of these startups are starting to see the problems with that decision. Read more »
Tags: smartups, SocialWeb, startups, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
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Web 3.0 Smartups: the Social Web and the Web of Data
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010<Smartups Series Part 2 of 5>
In the first installment of my Web 3.0 series, Powering Startups to Become Smartups, I presented a general overview of the Web’s evolving paradigm. I made the argument that today’s Web-based startups needed to step outside the current Web-2.0 box and think like a Web-3.0 company. By leveraging the power of Web 3.0, a common-place startup could transform itself into a smartup.
In this second installment, I’m going to talk about what most people think of when they hear the term Web 3.0—the Semantic Web or Web of data. In the process, I hope to correct some common misconceptions about what the Semantic Web is and what it is not. Read more »
Tags: identity 2.0, Linked Data, smartups, SocialWeb, startups, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
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Web 3.0: Powering Startups to Become Smartups
Monday, September 13th, 2010If you are a Web-based technology startup focused on the 2.0 version of the Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0), then you are not thinking outside of the box anymore. The Web is constantly evolving: innovating and implementing new technologies; adapting in a more timely manner to user feedback and needs; redefining the roles of business partners; and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
This is the first article in my four-part series about powering startups to become smartups. You can find the timeline for future installments of my series at the end of this article. Read more »
Tags: Linked Data, smartups, startups, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
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The Semantics of the Semantic Web: Don’t Confuse the Concept with the Movement
Thursday, September 9th, 2010This past week, another rash of the “Semantic Web is dead” cries have made their rounds at conferences (at least one) and across the Twittersphere. This is sensationalism at its best—and used quite effectively.
The truth is that the promise and accrued benefits of the Semantic Web are far from dead. Read more »
Tags: leadership, SocialWeb, Web 3.0, Web of Data
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Apple’s Ping Versus the Social Web
Saturday, September 4th, 2010In my last article, I wrote about the potential impact that Apple’s iTunes Ping, their just-released social network for music, might have on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The more important question is, What impact might Ping have on the Social Web? Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, net neutrality, Ping, SocialWeb
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 4 Comments »
Apple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for Facebook, Twitter, and the Social Web in general. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, Ping, SocialWeb, Twitter
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How the Death of Net Neutrality Effects You
Monday, August 16th, 2010The potential impact of the Google-Verizon proposal to end wireless net neutrality on bloggers, niche social network owners, and ecommerce sites seems to be misunderstood or not even realized by many of my colleagues in the the Web design and development business Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, developers, FOSS, freedoms, net neutrality, SocialWeb, startups
Posted in BuddyPress, Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 5 Comments »
BuddyPress Beginning to Mature At the Right Time
Friday, August 13th, 2010I’ve written about social-networking fatigue in the past, and still believe that–in the long term–distributed Social Web platforms will win out over the traditional, Web2.0-styled, closed-data-silo social networks. Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, developers, privacy, SocialWeb, startups
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