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Nothing Lasts Forever (and some things disappear according to a schedule)

It is generally considered to be good practice to make URIs (the identifiers of resources on the web) as stable as possible. However, there are many things on the Web that will not last forever; many of those by design.... Read more →

LocWeb 2015: Call for Papers

The 5th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2015) Held in conjunction with WWW2015, the 24th International World Wide Web Conference Florence, Italy, May 19, 2015. We are very happy to announce that LocWeb 2015 will take place... Read more →

Why Wear Wearables?

With the iWatch hype reaching all-time highs, it seems clear that the landscape of wearables will change quite dramatically over the next year or so. But as usual, it's much harder to predict how things will change, instead of just... Read more →

What's WoT?

At the recent W3C Workshop on the Web of Things in Berlin (workshop report blog post coming soon!), one of the obvious and non-trivial questions of course was: what, exactly, is the Web of Things? And how does it relate... Read more →

Two Sides of Data Science

Data Science is a subject that is mentioned a lot, and many people are saying that they're doing it. but the term often seems to take on different meanings, and depending on who's referring to it, it may mean surprisingly... Read more →

From AI to BI

or the alternative title for this could have been The Killer App for Linked Data. more about the killer app in a minute, first about the not-killer-app, the hope that linked data will converge on a small set on vocabularies,... Read more →

WoT 2011 Deadline Extended

due to popular demand, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the Second International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011). The new dates are shown below in the excerpt from the original Call for Papers for... Read more →

Web of Things 2011 (WoT 2011): Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011) In conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), San Francisco, California Web site: http://www.webofthings.com/wot/2011/ Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2011 Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2011... Read more →

LocWeb 2010: Call for Papers

Third International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2010) http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/LocWeb2010/ Tokyo, Japan, November 29, 2010 Co-located with Internet of Things 2010 (IoT 2010) http://www.iot2010.org/ Twitter: @LocWeb2010 The Third International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2010) focuses on... Read more →

HTML5 Capture API

probably the biggest open issue in how much of a mobile device's capabilities a web-based application can use was the lack of access to the camera. initiatives such as BONDI and PhoneGap had long recognized this and provided APIs for... Read more →