Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and not just because CTO Tom
Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big
DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual
Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the
company ticked more than enough of the right boxes to get the semantic
technology community positively drooling for more.
And then things went quiet.
Fast forward to 2010, and Siri is back. The back-end technology is faster,
more robust, and fuelled by loads more data. Robert Scoble has been amongst
those dropping not-so-subtle hints on Twitter for days, and other big names
in and around the Valley have also been targeted in a carefully orchestrated
programme of pre-briefings an... (more)
I was talking with Avanade’s Senior Director for Enterprise Security, Ace
Swerling, earlier today. The conversation touched on a wide range of security
and identity management issues that I’ll probably return to, but one of
Ace’s comments brought my attention back to an issue that has been nagging
at me for a while.
As I’m sure we all know, security concerns often figure highly in
discu... (more)
Cloud Computing Journal
Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior
executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact
of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner
Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalface in
adopting various Cloud (mainly SaaS) solutions.
Carr blogged on Friday, n... (more)
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I have been a fan of (and subscriber to) GigaOM’s analyst site, GigaOM Pro,
for some time. As the site’s blurb describes,
“All too often, insider analyst research and commentary is costly,
inaccessible or ineffective to the entrepreneurs, investors and innovators
who need timely insights most. We’re changing this by making high-quality
expert reports, d... (more)
I’ve written and spoken before about a recent upsurge in enthusiasm for
exposing data from Government in ways that facilitate use and re-use, and
will doubtless be returning to this topic in the ‘Government Data’ panel
session at the Linked Data Meetup in London on Wednesday.
Tim Berners-Lee has been amongst those rallying to the cause, and working
with Governments here and overseas to re... (more)
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