Report Slams Web Personalization
This is very interesting. Althouigh personalization has been the mantra preached by consultants over the last year or more, a new report suggests that users would benefit more from better site design. More...

Microsoft Plans Longhorn Client in 2005, Server in 2006
Microsoft is now expected to delay the release of it's 'Longhorn' Windows client until the end of 2005, and perhaps even as late as 2006. More...

IDC Finds Corporate Training Markets Making Steady Gains
The worst is over, according to a new report frim IDC, and the corporate eLearning market should make steady gains over the next few years, reaching $10.6 billion in the U.S. by 2007. More...

Interview: SixApart's Degree of Weblog Integration
"We recognize that this works the way users work." That's the advantage SixApart's MoveableType is working with as it tries to develop wider business applications for the blogging software. More...

Microsoft Office as Strip Mall
Short commentary and more links to the story I picked up last week where Microsoft is making access to Amazon available through office applications. More...

The E-Learning Market: It's About the Learner, Not the Instructor!
It has been a long time coming, and the concept still hasn't penetrated class-based university online learning systems, but the re-emergence of e-learning is beginning to happen with a greater realization on the part of vendors that their client is not the instructor, but the learner. More...

What Price Music?
When CDs were introduced in the mid-1980s, the record companies re-released their old stock in the new format at double the price of the original vinyl. People recognize that, and they recognize that 99 cents a song is no real saving over the current, inflated, price. More...

Welcome to the Protégé Project
This is a very interesting piece of authoring and editing software intended to facilitate the creation of ontology based knowledge engines. Unfortunately written in Java (so it is very slow, even on good machines), the interface is demonstrated with a newspaper ontology and content interface. More...

Navigating the Net Just Got Easier
Amblit is a semantical web browser "with an intelligent semantic agent and an integrated content manager." There is no demo available on the site, and you have to pay money for it sight unseen, which means that it will never become widely used. More...

August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web
This is a great article describing clearly how the semantic web will change our relation to information - and to each other. As I read this article, I began to sense how what I will call "semantic opacity" will be necessary for the semantic web to work properly. In the new semantic web, everyone will have access to statements like "[Citibank] says (Scott Rahin) is (Trustworthy)" and "[The Sherriff's Department of Dallas, Texas] says (Dave Trebuchet) has (Bounced Checks)." But do I want the world to know what Citibank or some Sheriff's department thinks about me. More...