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Archive for January, 2012

Sorry, this X is not available in your country.

I can more than relate to the Jelmer’s blog post about annoying situations where this or that content is not available for people outside US. The other day I wanted to buy a book (fiction), the ‘teaser’ on the Amazon site got me interested. After clicking on “Buy with one click” on my Kindle I [...]

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Pushing it step by step… this time ACTA

If you want to introduce a really huge change into the system, you do it slowly, gradually, step by step, so that people don’t see it coming. It’s not the musicians who will benefit from this all, but all the record houses and all the others who refuse to change themselves, their policies, their way [...]

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Social media replacing CRM system – huh??

Anyone with a grain of salt in the head would think twice before letting social media replace CRM system. I’m not an expert in this area but… c’mon. Let’s think about some things I observed in last few years: Most of the companies are very slow at picking up new (social) media. At the time [...]

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Timeless Lego – what’s your story?

My first set of Lego bricks from childhood is no longer in my “toys inventory”, but memories are still here. Walking along the aisles with toys in almost any store these days makes me think that kids these days are left with no room for their own imagination. Why? You can get pre-packed sets of [...]

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What has LOD2 to do with OntoWiki … and me?

It is time to announce (another) webinar from LOD2 webinar series, this time about OntoWiki. But first things first… In September last year I joined Zemanta (allright!) as a researcher… and Zemanta is a partner in a FP7 project called Linked Open Data 2 – Creating Knowledge out of interlinked Data. I already wrote about [...]

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