Blogs

During the upcoming weeks I will give some details about the internals of CLUUG — how it works, and what's behind the scenes.

As you may have already seen, CLUUG manages your things — these are the ones that represent your information. Everything may become a thing, starting from a Web page through an email message through a file on your hard disk. But not only digital stuff can become a thing. People, projects, locations, topics — everything you can imagine can become a thing.

After many months of setting up a company, we have our second public appearance: gnowsis.com is going to show up at CeBIT. We will be giving demos of our first product "cluug.com" and give away alpha accounts for selected users. There will also be a great video about it. Not a finished product yet, but an alpha version, so we are getting closer.

You probably haven't realized it yet, but the value lost due to missing information is enormous. A 2005 study by M.K. Bergman reveals that

• it costs in average $150 to find a misfiled document;
• 7.5 percent of all documents are lost forever;
• the average knowledge worker spends 25% of their work time with searching for critical information; and
• organizations spend 5 to 15% of their total revenue (!) on handling documents.

Watch the successful Gnowsis pitch presentation at the ESTC 2009 Innovation Seed Camp. Get a deeper insight into the idea and the goals of the company and see the talk that made Gnowsis win the 3rd place amongst the best 16 start-ups from all around Europe in the field of semantic technologies!

The German research and consulting company innowise published thereport "Trends in Semantic Web" (in German language). It sums up the results of 200 European research projects and shows possible use cases of deployed semantic web technology.

We are very happy to announce that gnowsis.com has won the 3rd price at this year's ESTC Innovation Seedcamp! A big thank you to the jury, and congratulations to the winners Collibra and flimmit!

gnowsis.com will participate at the 2009 ESTC Innovation Seed Camp together with a fine selection of current Semantic Web-related startups from all over Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you there; if you want to meet us during the conference please contact us.

People need tools to write down information, we are working on them and will give a preview on what we do at the ESTC 2009 conference in Vienna - and you can get a special discount on the entrance fee to talk to us.

In a recent interview Tim Berners-Lee not only stated that HTTP URIs could have been designed without the double slashes at the beginning (with which I actually disagree: it adds uniqueness and recognizabillity to the whole thing), another important fact somehow gets missing in this interview: when asked to explain the Semantic Web in a nutshell, Tim gives concrete examples of a navigation system in your car that is aware of your calendar and knows where to take you to your next appointment.

Netmonic, an Austrian internet service provider, held a competition in the past, in which the price for the winner were cloud services for a year, for startups based in Austria.