Author: David Needle (Internet News) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today unveiled a new framework designed to bridge the gap between classifications, subject headings and taxonomies and so-called linked data. The idea is to create broader and simpler data exchange and access to information as part of the broader Semantic Web initiative. The term [...]
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W3C’s New SKOS Standard Advances Linked Data
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Most Secure Browser
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech Editor: Ryan Sanders According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available. The study was conducted by US based security research company NSS Labs, and included testing for Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, the beta of Opera 10, Safari 4, and [...]
Google – Looking Beyond Keywords
Friday, August 14th, 2009SAN JOSE, Calif. — What’s next after keywords? The director of Google’s wildly successful AdWords program says the search giant is working on ways to make the system easier to use and more effective. “Keywords work very, very well, but we think we can do better,” Nicholas Fox, the business product management director for Google [...]
Adobe Plans to Open Flash Framework
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Author: Sean Kerner (Internet News) Adobe’s Flash is a closed-source technology and is likely to stay that way, but that doesn’t mean that technologies surrounding and supporting Flash can’t be open. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today is announcing the open sourcing of two technologies related to the Flash platform — one for its media player, the [...]
Is Search Engine Marketing Ready to Make A Rebound?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News) It appears that search engine marketing is stabilizing after a series of increasing quarterly declines, according to a report out this week. The news comes at a time when marketers are trying to capitalize on the continued growth in performance-based advertising, or those in which advertisers only pay for measurable [...]
Major PHP Update Coming Soon
Friday, June 26th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News) PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since 2006 and [...]
Poll Shows Internet As Most Popular Source of Information
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the United States. But just a small fraction of U.S. adults considered social websites such as Facebook and MySpace as [...]
Liberalized Domains a Boon for Businesses?
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Source: Internet News Two thirds of businesses are unaware they will be able to use their own name in place of domain extensions such as .com, .org, or .net when Internet domains are liberalized next year, according to a survey. The change would let the likes of Nike (NYSE: NKE) or Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) control [...]
JavaFX Pitted Against AJAX
Monday, June 8th, 2009Author: Paul Krill (Yahoo) In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems’ JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant’s high points and the low points of their rival. A session at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco had the co-founders of the Ajaxian web [...]
