This Week on the Semantic Web – 27 Jan 2012

We round up the last week of January continuing as we began, with a selection of the finest 2012 countdowns and predictions for the year ahead. This week Dion Hinchcliffe takes a retrospective look at Big Data, Steve Hamby gets sentimental about … Continue reading

The new breed of transmedia companies – and 6 factors for success

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One of the things we do at Publishing Technology is help publishers realize the transition from print being based businesses to media businesses. Many book publishers are most of the way there, having made the leap from viewing themselves as … Continue reading

10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 – (Part 2)

By George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology   Welcome back to our 10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 countdown. In our previous post, we hailed some of the worlds fastest growing academic publishing markets, took a glimpse at … Continue reading

10 Publishing Trends to Look Out for in 2012 (Part 1)

By George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology   As predicted by many, last year saw further dramatic changes in publishing across all sectors; trade, educational and academic. We saw more chain and independent book shops closing and consumers further embracing … Continue reading

This Week on the Semantic Web – 20 Jan 2012

This week Sir Tim Bernes-Lee speaks about the intelligent web and the Obama attempts to smarten up its campaign using text analytic technology. Meanwhile, we report on the state of database technology and Robert Cringely makes some Siri-ous claims. Each week we bring … Continue reading

Moore’s Law, publishing and why Michael Fraser is right about Generation Y

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In the month when it was announced that digital music sales had finally overtaken sales of physical CDs or records in the US, while physical book sales slumped by £100m in the UK over Christmas, I’ve been spending some time … Continue reading

This Week on the Semantic Web – 13 Jan 2012

We have barely settled into 2012 and Google are already causing semantic tidal waves. We take a glimpse at Google’s latest revelation ‘Search, Plus Your World’ in the same week that Hendler, co-founder of the Semantic Web, is selected as … Continue reading

ALPSP Digital Strategy Seminar

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As digital strategy has become a core part of every publishing business, it’s important for publishers to keep up to date with emerging technologies, new industry initiatives and changes in user behaviour. ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society … Continue reading

10 recommendations for the future of scholarly publishing

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It’s now acknowledged within the publishing industry that Christmas 2011 was the time when digital reading officially went mainstream, with sales of ebooks and ereaders rocketing on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet while the consumer landscape has exhaustively well … Continue reading

This Week on the Semantic Web – 06 Jan 2012

In the spirit of the New Year, we kick start 2012 with the news of new bonds and investments, sharing and connecting, and with the knowledge that all things digital can have a human touch. As Google acquire an IBM … Continue reading