By way of Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed blog I read a post reframing Ireland’s recent bank guarantee scheme in terms of it being a hedge fund.
I’m not 100% au fait with all the financial terminology, but the takeaway message seems to be that this is an expensive guarantee to make. But then again, when talking about international banking at the moment, what isn’t.
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Oh dear, it looks like tuppenceworth has nailed SFI’s logo. We’re obviously of the “one dot and two swirls” variety.
By way of Damien Mulley.
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Over at TechCrunch, there’s a post on what Amazon should do if they really want to get serious about the Kindle. The gist of the recommendation is that they should sell the software to a bunch of OEMs, who’ll create new, compatible devices, and make money on the book sales.
Of course, this is what people have been telling Apple to do since forever - a road that Apple has consistently and doggedly refused to go down. With the Mac, iPod/iTunes and now iPhone, Apple have shown that there is great value in having integrated control over the entire hardware, software and web service stack.
If Amazon were to take a leaf from Apple’s book, they would try to keep the entire platform to themselves, and consistently and iteratively improve the quality of the device, content and service.
While I haven’t used the Kindle, I’ve read plenty of positive things about it (despite its butt-ugly looks). It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves, and whether Amazon tries to market the Kindle outside the US.
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There’s an interesting article in today’s Irish Times about GAA referees wearing sensor-enhanced vests during the recent Armagh-Wexford All-Ireland quarter final game. The article mentions that the study was funded by SFI, but does not mention the specific project.
It’s probably the CLARITY CSET, which was funded by SFI very recently, and is working in the intelligent sensor area.
A sign of things to come, no doubt.
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One part of the DERI technology suite is an ontology/vocabulary called SIOC, an effort led by John Breslin.
While in China earlier this year at the WWW 2008 conference, John mentioned that DERI was preparing to export all of the boards.ie data in SIOC format, and to run a competition for the most imaginative use/mashup of that data.
Well, on his blog, John has just announced that competition. If you have any interest in the semantic or programmable web, check it out.
On a related note, John has mentioned that he has been appointed to a faculty position within NUIG. Best of luck with the new job!
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Mike Butcher, of TechCrunch UK fame (who incidentally also writes a column in the Friday Irish Times), has written up a brief piece on how London needs to emulate Dublin’s Digital Hub.
To quote:
Fantastic. Totally and utterly fantastic.
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Check out this video of an excellent speech given by Malcolm Gladwell from a recent New Yorker conference.
In it he mentions his new book on the mismatch problem - the problem of matching skills with the analysis of those skills. Coming out in November, apparently. I’m there.
With thanks to Guy Kawasaki.
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Recently, SFI started a consultation process on open access for SFI funded research.
STM, the international association of scientific, technical and medical publishers, has recently published its response to this proposed policy.
I haven’t studied the open access movement too much, but will have to follow up on this some more.
With thanks to Open Access News.
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Just came across an article entitled Tangler: An API for Discussion Forums in programmableweb which talks about a new API for discussion forums.
I wonder how this relates to the SIOC ontology developed at DERI?
While diversity and multiple approaches are great, one of the real benefits of the programmable web (and indeed programming in general) has got to be standardisation and predictability.
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Joe Drumgoole’s start-up putplace got a great mention on Read/Write Web a few days ago, nicely co-inciding with their public launch.
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