EU Commission started a Consultation on the Internet of Things aka Web 3.0
A few days ago I wrote about the the EU Commission’s definition of Web 3.0. Now they started a consultation on that topic. To be precise it is about “early challenges regarding the Internet of Things”....
View ArticleEU Parliament backs the rights of internet users
For the past several months the EU Commission and the EU Parliament were struggling over the so called “Telecom Package“, a legislative initiative promoted by the Commission under heavy advocacy of...
View ArticleEconomic evidence for the need of a Policy Aware Web?
In a recent study the authors Aleecia McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor of Carnegie Mellon University found out that the time allocated for reading online privacy policies on the websites you regularly...
View ArticleExploring and discussing the values of netizens
Prof. Rafael Capurro, one of the world’s most renowned experts of Information Ethics, together with his colleagues Max Senges (Ex-Google Researcher) and Michael Nagenborg (Robotics & Privacy...
View ArticleHave you ever read “privacy policy” of your preferred social media?
Today we had an interview date with Markus Mooslechner from ORF (Austrian Broadcasting). The TV-Show “Newton” will discuss next Saturday how social media affects our lives, especially how one can make...
View ArticleKeep the Semantic Web trusty
Image via Wikipedia In recent days – here at Semantic Web Company – we have had a lot of discussions on how the future of the Semantic Web (name it Web3.0 if you like) will develop. Several...
View ArticleChris Bizer talks about the commercial opportunities of linked data
In a recent interview Prof. Chris Bizer from FU Berlin gave some insights into the commercial opportunities of linked data. In the short run he predicts three application areas: I think we will see a...
View ArticleEthics – the new killer-app?
Sometimes I hate marketing. Most often you can feel it in your heart whether issues are authentic or not. Whatever medium you are consuming these days – the web, the newspapers or your mailbox – anyone...
View ArticleSören Auer: “Establishing a network effect around linked data is the most...
Leipzig is one of Germany’s Semantic Web hotspots. From May 5-6, 2010 the annual Semantic Web Day provides the opportunity to catch up with latest developments especially in the domain of Linked Data...
View ArticleSocial Semantic Web dawning?
Facebook — Open Graph — Semantic Search Alex Wilhelm from The Next Web writes: There is data outside of Facebook that the company wants to be brought in and made relevant inside of the Facebook...
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