Yesterday we summarized some of the main developments in the Linked Data world over the past year. Linked Data is a W3C-backed movement that is all about connecting data sets across the Web. It can be viewed as a subset of the wider Semantic Web movement, which is about adding meaning to the Web. However, there is some confusion in the Semantic Web community about the crossover. To add to the confusion, there is a term called ‘Open Data’ that is being bandied around too. This commonly describes data …

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Discounts! Coupons! X% off! We all love a sweet deal. I mean, who doesn’t want an incentive to purchase a product or service? It’s what persuades our behaviors as consumers to pick one brand over an…
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claims that if Facebook was starting out now, sharing with everybody would be the starting point, rather than with a small group of friends.
Is this more about reflecting social norms or changing them to help Facebook compete with Twitter?The statement, made during a livestream of the Crunchies awards, hits on a hot …
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We love site-building and story-telling applications, and social webizens love sharing their content – particularly multimedia content – in new and compelling ways.

Remember the old way you acquired applications? You read or heard about an app somewhere, and then you’d go looking for the web site of the software company that creates it.

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This recently sent to Seesmic users:
“We’re happy to share with you very big news if you have not heard. We’ve acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to update 50 social networks from Seesmic – and we’d love to hear your feedback on what features we can add to improve Ping.fm.  Your friends are not all in one social network, but we want to help you stay in touch with them anytime and from any device. That is Seesmic’s vision and to deliver this faster, …