I’ll be traveling next week so the next issue will be March 9th.

This week we feature articles from Dan McCreary, and Bill Franks.

Additional reading is from The Markup’s Citizen Browser, the IAB, The Gradient, and the Neo4j Developer Blog.

News comes from Translations.com & Amplience, Reveille, Bridgeline, and InfluxData.

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Opinion / Analysis

A Thousand Brains and the EKG. How shape detection drives classification

Dan McCreary is an excellent resource for learning about enterprise knowledge graphs, especially for complex applications. This article was inspired by Jeff Hawkins’ book, A Thousand Brains. McCreary sees parts of Hawkins’ brain theory as an enlightening way to think about the future of enterprise knowledge graph architectures and capabilities. The book looks like a must-read for anyone interested in brain theory — I’ve just started it — but you don’t need to read the book to understand McCreary’s ideas about EKGs.

https://towardsdatascience.com/1000-brains-and-the-ekg-8ef7b1764ccd

A major barrier to scalable analytics

In this short article, Bill Franks cautions against neglecting to adequately consider the costs of moving data around, which remain significant in spite of all the improvements in data management tools.

This challenge exists with traditional relational data warehouses and data marts. It also exists in the more recent NoSQL and file-based data repositories. Most critically, the challenge doesn’t go away with cloud architectures in general, or with newer paradigms like a data mesh or data fabric. While some of the newer approaches make the management of the disparate data sources more seamless to a user and easier for administrators, the fundamental problem of having to move data is still there. It’s just easier to ask for it to happen. Hybrid cloud environments can be particularly problematic in this respect.

https://datafloq.com/read/a-major-barrier-to-scalable-analytics-2/

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More Reading…

• IAB State of Data Initiative 2022, free, but requires login, via IAB
• From the department of public service… Facebook scammers schilling fake crypto using big tech’s biggest names, via Citizen Browser
• How Aristotle is fixing deep learning’s flaws, via The Gradient
• If you’re a Neo4j and a Wordle geek… Create a Neo4j AuraDB free instance, via Neo4j Developer Blog

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Content technology news

Translations.com certifies Amplience’s GlobalLink Connect integration

Provides for an all-in-one solution to initiate, automate, control, track, and complete all facets of the translation process.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/translations-com-certifies-ampliences-globallink-connect-integration/

Reveille 10 adds support for Hyland OnBase and Alfresco

Intelligent automation capabilities with expanded support for Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power BI, and OpenText.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/reveille-10-adds-support-for-hyland-onbase-and-alfresco/

Bridgeline announces suite for multi-location businesses

Specialized software for managing multiple websites including location pages, local eCommerce, location finder, search, reporting, analytics.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/bridgeline-announces-suite-for-multi-location-businesses/

InfluxData releases new features

InfluxDB will help expedite IoT and Industrial IoT application building for developers working with time series data at the edge.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/influxdata-releases-new-features/

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This week we feature articles from JPMorgan’s Anu Jain, Graham Person, Paul Conroy, with Nivas Shankar from AWS, and from IBM’s Rolly John.

Additional reading is from the Google AI Blog, ZDNet, Wired, and The Next Platform.

News comes from Acquia, Elastic, Piano & SocialFlow, and Oro.

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Opinion / Analysis

How JPMorgan Chase built a data mesh architecture to drive significant value to enhance their enterprise data platform

A short high-level description of a data mesh implementation that does a good job explaining the what, and the value; suitable for senior management and non-technical colleagues. Excellent illustrations.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-jpmorgan-chase-built-a-data-mesh-architecture-to-drive-significant-value-to-enhance-their-enterprise-data-platform/

How Topic Modelling can help companies to mine customer reviews

Rolly John has a more technical how-to piece based on a project she is working on. She includes details with links to analysis and code on her GitHub, and plans to provide updates on enhancements as she progresses.

https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/how-topic-modelling-can-help-companies-to-mine-through-comments-and-reviews-c5cd973ce201

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More Reading…

• Add intelligence to your document processing with Google’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph via Google Blog
• Building a lakehouse datastore like Uber, but with managed lakehouse services built on Hudi. via The Next Platform
• How Oracle Autonomous JSON Database adds MongoDB support via ZDNet
• Fascinating background… How Telegram became the anti-Facebook via Wired

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Content technology news

Acquia launches UK hosting solution

London data center allows Drupal Cloud in-country hosting for organizations impacted by Brexit to support customer data localization.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/acquia-launches-uk-hosting-solution/

Elastic 8.0 Elastic search, vector search, natural language processing

Enterprise Search updates include native vector search, support for modern natural language processing (NLP) models, and data onboarding.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/elastic-releases-elastic-8-0/

Piano acquires SocialFlow

Will help organizations manage organic posting across platforms, manage paid social media campaigns, and collect data on user clicks.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/piano-acquires-socialflow/

Oro unveils OroCommerce 5.0

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2B adds features to boost productivity, improve site performance, and optimize customer experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/oro-unveils-orocommerce-5-0/

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This week we feature articles from Ryan Dawson and Tim Bray.

Additional reading is from TheSequence, Kai-Fu Lee, NLPlanet, and Sandeep Uttamchandani.

News comes from Franz, Webscale, Box & Slack, and Access Innovations.

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Opinion / Analysis

How do you evaluate MLOps platforms?

Companies that pioneered application of AI at scale did so using in-house ML platforms (facebook, uber, LinkedIn etc.). These capabilities are now available in off-the-shelf products. The rush to MLOps has led to too much choice. There are hundreds of tools and at least 40 platforms available…

Ryan Dawson wants to help. He starts with this high-level view, but is then kind enough to point to a detailed open source MLOps platforms comparison matrix.

https://medium.com/mlops-community/how-to-evaluate-mlops-platforms-c98cf7874cca

Lock-in and multi-cloud

Multi-cloud is a tricky thing, and causes serious stress in various parts of organizations. We’ve covered this before, including here, here, and here. This week Tim Bray digs in to the trade-offs and delivers additional and useful thoughts to help inform your decisions.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In

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More Reading…

• DeepMind and OpenAI magical week in AI, Progress in code and math via TheSequence
• Don’t get hung up on AGI… Why computers don’t need to match human intelligence, via Kai-Fu Lee
• Awesome NLP — 21 popular NLP libraries of 2022, via NLPlanet
• Useful info once you get beyond the flashing GIF at the top… 2022 technology landscape to make AI self-service via Sandeep Uttamchandani

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Content technology news

Access Innovations launches Data Harmony Hub for automated content classification and semantic metadata enrichment

A cloud-based platform that provides automated content tagging using expertly curated taxonomies. Users can select from existing taxonomies.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/data-harmony-hub-for-automated-content-classification-and-semantic-metadata/

Webscale launches CloudEDGE PWA

CloudEDGE PWA supports frontend delivery for including Adobe/Magento, Shopify, Hybris, Salesforce Commerce Cloud or BigCommerce backends.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/webscale-launches-cloudedge-pwa/

Franz’s Gruff 8.1 brings visual knowledge graphs to web applications

Users can now visually build queries and visualize connections between enterprise data directly within a web page or web application.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/franzs-gruff-8-1-brings-visual-knowledge-graphs-to-web-applications/

Box updates Slack integration

The Box for Slack integration that enables customers to use Box as the single file storage system in the Slack environment.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/box-updates-slack-integration/

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Happy Groundhog Day!

This week we have articles from Joel Spolsky and Tomaz Bratanic. News comes from Cambridge Semantics, Box & Microsoft, Google, and Translations.com & ServiceNow.

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Opinion / Analysis

Making the web better. With blocks!

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks… This kind of “insert block” user interface concept is showing up in almost every blogging tool, web editor, note-taking app, and content management system. People like it and it makes sense… I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if blocks were interchangeable and reusable across the web?

Joel Spolsky wants to create a new “block protocol” for developers that makes this possible, and he is looking for help. What makes this interesting is the use of structured data. Once you’ve read his short description check out this for answers to many of the questions you’ll have.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-better-with-blocks/

Monitoring the cryptocurrency space with NLP and knowledge graphs

Every day, millions of articles and papers are published. While there is a lot of knowledge hidden in those articles, it is virtually impossible to read all of them. Even if you only focus on a specific domain, it is still hard to find all relevant articles and read them to get valuable insights… In this blog post, I will present a solution of how you can combine the power of NLP with knowledge graphs to extract valuable insights from relevant articles automatically.

There are multiple use-cases where this solution would be applicable. For example, you could create a business monitoring tool to survey what the internet says about your own company…

Tomaz Bratanic’s tutorial uses crypto as an example of his solution using Diffbot and Neo4j.

https://medium.com/neo4j/monitoring-the-cryptocurrency-space-with-nlp-and-knowledge-graphs-92a1cfaebd1a

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More Reading…

• Not what you thought… Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs via The Economist
• Not just fun… Time-saving technologies via Product Hunt
• Couldn’t resist… I made an AI read Wittgenstein, then told it to play philosopher via Max Braun
• What they think… Google Research: themes from 2021 and beyond via Google AI Blog

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Content technology news

Cambridge Semantics updates Anzo

To make it easier to create knowledge graphs codeless capabilities for discovering, analyzing, and connecting your enterprise data.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/cambridge-semantics-updates-anzo/

Box enhances integration with Microsoft Teams

Integration can reduce content fragmentation and make it easier to collaborate across the Box Content Cloud and Microsoft environments.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/box-enhances-integration-with-microsoft-teams/

Google Topics replaces FloC

Topics was informed by our learning and widespread community feedback from our earlier FLoC trials, and replaces our FLoC proposal.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/google-topics-replaces-floc/

Translations.com updates ServiceNow integration

Extended localization and workflow automation provides users with a solution for managing global enterprise content with minimal effort.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/translations-com-updates-servicenow-integration/

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This week we have articles from Jennifer Cwiok and Kendra Meyer, and Fabio Chiusano. News comes from Newgen Software, Acquia, Progress, and Ceros & Oroson.

In case you were still celebrating the new year on January 3rd and missed it, 2021’s most read articles and issues is here.

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Opinion / Analysis

How born-digital assets and AI are changing the landscape for the AMNH Research Library

Jennifer Cwiok and Kendra Meyer describe their implementation of a Digital Asset Management system (DAMS) at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Research Library for a born-digital archives collection program. They use image recognition and automated metadata to connect digital and physical assets collections data. Helpfully, they discuss organizational, governance, workflow, and system integration.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evolving-archive-how-born-digital-assets-ai-changing-landscape-cwiok/

Applications of knowledge graphs

Wondering if knowledge graphs are applicable to your business or project? Fabio Chiusano summarizes A Survey on Application of Knowledge Graph just for you. 

https://medium.com/nlplanet/nlp-applications-11-applications-of-knowledge-graphs-9596948d3e56

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More Reading…

• A short introduction to FuchsiaOS, Googles multiplatform OS… via Allan Ramos
• A new life, The MoE Momentum includes links to Microsoft and Google papers… via TheSequence
• Cool. Unsurprisingly they beat me to it… Euler’s 243-year-old ‘impossible’ puzzle gets a quantum solution via Wired
• You probably know the answer but here is an update… Is 2022 the year for consumer AR glasses? via ARPost

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Content technology news

Acquia adds retail machine learning models to CDP

Among the additions to the Acquia CDP is a “market basket” model to drive digital commerce conversions by intelligently bundling relevant products.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/acquia-adds-retail-machine-learning-models-to-cdp/

Newgen Software to acquire Number Theory

Number Theory’s platform, AI Studio, brings intuitive AI/ML to every enterprise, while unifying the entire lifecycle of data engineering.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/newgen-software-to-acquire-number-theory/

Progress updates Telerik and Progress Kendo UI

In addition to UI libraries for .NET and JavaScript frameworks the 50+ new components and day-one support for .NET 6, Visual Studio 2022 and Angular 13.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/progress-telerik-and-progress-kendo-ui/

Ceros acquires Oroson

Deal adds video and audio support to the company’s MarkUp product to support creative collaboration across all design projects.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/ceros-acquires-oroson/

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This week we have content from Rachel Dulberg, and Cobus Greyling. News comes from dtSearch, MACH Alliance and AWS, Nosto and SearchNode, and Databricks.

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Opinion / Analysis

Apple and Google are drawing the line on app privacy

Rachel Dulberg provides a quick update on the lumbering global privacy legislation, and then discusses the privacy rules Google and Apple are already putting in place in their app stores. Presumably, any organization with an app is going to have to do something, and soon. Fortunately, both companies have similar rules and Dulberg has some advice. (6 min read)

https://onezero.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-apple-googles-new-app-store-privacy-rules-9ec59b186cf3

Updated: the current conversational AI & chatbot landscape

Making astute technology decisions at the inception of your chatbot journey has a significant impact on what your chatbot’s trajectory will be…

Cobus Greyling provides lots of detail on frameworks and tools to help you navigate. (10 min read)

https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/updated-the-current-conversational-ai-chatbot-landscape-781a2e2dd68b

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More Reading…

• Always a good source for this topic… The future of the modern data stack in 2022 via Prukalpa
• What is a feature store? If you don’t know this will get you up-to-speed. via Louise de Leyritz
• Fascinating, but you may want your specs and a straight edge… The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US via Asymco

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Content technology news

AWS joins MACH Alliance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined as an Enabler member, those that enable a MACH provider but don’t offer a direct MACH solution.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/aws-joins-mach-alliance/

dtSearch updates product line

Includes Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, .NET 6 Support; Apple Silicon M1/ARM Developer Build; Multithreaded 64-bit Windows/Linux Preview.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/dtsearch-updates-product-line/

Nosto acquires SearchNode, adds ecommerce Search to CX

Pairs SearchNode’s natural language processing search technology with Nosto’s CX personalization and merchandising capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/nosto-acquired-searchnode-adds-ecommerce-search-to-cx/

Databricks launches Data Lakehouse for Retail

Lakehouse for Retail Solution Accelerators offer a blueprint of data analytics and machine learning use cases and practices.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/databricks-launches-data-lakehouse-for-retail/

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This week we have content from Moxie Marlinspike, Bart de Langhe & Stefano Puntoni, and Benedict Evans. News comes from Cloudinary and Indivio, Upland Software and Objectif Lune, and Datadog and AWS.

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Opinion / Analysis

My first impressions of web3

Signal founder and crypto sceptic Moxie Marlinspike published an excellent weekend post that is the latest must-read on Web3, and decentralization in particular. It quickly went viral and has prompted necessary discussion. The list of useful reactions is way too long to list here, but the best place to start is the response from Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin.

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Tech questions for 2022

Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today…

Benedict Evans. Useful questions as always, and not just about Web3.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2022/1/2/2022-questions

Does personalized advertising work as well as tech companies claim?

Many Big Tech companies have created platforms that offer businesses tips and tools and services to better target their customers online. These can be helpful — but anybody relying on them needs to be very careful. That’s because many of these companies’ claims about how to measure advertising effectiveness are wrong.

Meta, Google, Twitter, and causal confusion.

https://hbr.org/2021/12/does-personalized-advertising-work-as-well-as-tech-companies-claim?

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More Reading…

• Multimodal progress… AI that understands speech by looking as well as hearing via Meta AI
• A how-to… Recognize strategic opportunities with long-tail data via Nielsen Norman Group
• I’m with the critics… The New York Times viz that divided #DataTwitter via SELECT * FROM data;

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Content technology news

Cloudinary acquires Indivio

Cloudinary with Indivio’s offering help marketing teams scale the volume and frequency of on-brand creative content without overburdening creative teams.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/cloudinary-acquires-indivio/

Upland Software acquires Objectif Lune

Adds to its document workflow products large-volume print production as well as automated delivery across web, email, and mobile platforms.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/upland-software-acquires-objectif-lune/

Datadog announces strategic partnership with AWS

Datadog provides visibility into into AWS-hosted, on-premises, and hybrid environments during cloud migration.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/datadog-announces-strategic-partnership-with-aws/

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This week we have content from Tim O’Reilly, Jay Graber. News comes from Limelight, Optimizely, Syncro Soft, and iTranslate.

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Opinion / Analysis

Whoa, is there a lot discussion around “Web 3.0”, “Web3”, whatever. It’s all fun, interesting, and necessary, but a little early for convincing predictions. There is no official definition of either term just as there was no official definition or product plan for Web 2.0. As then, there are a lot of ideas, aspirations, and new technologies being developed and in use — and even more questions. There is plenty to read and lots to recommend. Below are two you should include in your reading list.

Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3

Tim O’Reilly, who started a conference that popularized “Web 2.0” in 2004, provides broader, historical, and current context, as well as an even-handed look at the roles of decentralization and crypto. He makes a compelling case for his title.

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3

Web3 is self-certifying

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what Web3 is and isn’t. Here’s my definition: Web3 is user-generated authority, enabled by self-certifying web protocols. These are a superset of technologies that include blockchains, but are not limited to them. Is this what other people think “Web3” is? Maybe not, but hear me out.

Jay Graber has a must read take. Note Graber is leading Twitter’s Bluesky project.

https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81

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More Reading…

• Useful collection for diehard trend list fans… 2022 trends | 2021 review via space cadet ventures
• Lots of good free market data (free membership login required)… CDP Industry Update January 2022 via CDP Institute
• Ouch. 115 publications… Meta releases newsletter platform numbers, and it’s good news for Substack via The Verge
• Fun for anyone who knows what the title refers to… Yuck, Office HTML via Terry Crowley

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Content technology news

Optimizely launches integrated B2B Commerce & Content Cloud solution

The integration uses the B2B Commerce Cloud as a headless commerce API to make B2B data and capabilities available within the Content Cloud.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/optimizely-launches-integrated-b2b-commerce-content-cloud-solution/

iTranslate launches API integration at Snap’s Lens Fest

The Remote Service Module of Lens Studio allows users to obtain data from iTranslate’s translation API and use them in their Lenses.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/itranslate-launches-api-integration-at-snaps-lens-fest/

Syncro Soft announces Oxygen Feedback version 2.0 for cloud and enterprise editions

Introduces the organization concept in Oxygen Feedback workflow, increased data security, streamlined workflows, and customization.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/syncro-soft-announces-oxygen-feedback-version-2-0-for-cloud-and-enterprise-editions/

Limelight releases GraphQL caching and serverless hosting for headless websites

Layer0 addresses caching GraphQL APIs at the network edge, and supports hosting the GraphQL server in a serverless environment.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/limelight-releases-graphql-caching-and-serverless-hosting-for-headless-websites/

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