This week we feature an article from Michael Andrews.

Additional reading comes from Piethein Strengholt, Cade Metz, and Petr Korab.

News comes from Ontotext, Contentstack, Syncro Soft, SimInsights, and Deepnote.

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Opinion / Analysis

Your markup is showing

“Markup is supposed to make content better. So why does it frequently make content worse?” Michael Andrews reminds us that even simple markup, such as Markdown, needs to be used carefully and comes with a cognitive cost. He also provides some all to familiar examples of markup mistakes that authors dread and publishers would prefer to avoid. (5 min)

https://storyneedle.com/your-markup-is-showing/

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More Reading…

• Useful. Six scenarios and approaches… Data Mesh: Topologies and domain granularity via Towards Data Science (10 min)
• A how to… N-gram word clouds, chord diagrams, and packed bubble charts… Advanced visualisations for text data analysis via Towards Data Science (5 min)
• High level accessible summary of interesting recent paper in Nature (link included)… Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network via New York Times (6 min)
• Well-organized collection of all the news at Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News via Microsoft (36 min but with a handy TOC)

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Content technology news

Ontotext gets growth funding to meet demand for graph technology

Ontotext will accelerate its international expansion and go-to-market operations, focusing on the US market.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/ontotext-gets-growth-funding-to-meet-demand-for-graph-technology/

SimInsights launches no-code XR authoring platform

HyperSkill authoring with block-based coding 3D simulation software for virtual and augmented reality and AI powered training.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/siminsights-launches-no-code-xr-authoring-platform/

Contentstack launches no-code Automation Hub

Automation Hub addresses the technical complexity and operational challenges that composable architectures can introduce.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/contentstack-launches-no-code-automation-hub/

Deepnote data notebook comes out of beta

Deepnote is a new data science notebook for data teams to improve collaboration, modern data stack integration, and productivity.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/deepnote-data-notebook-comes-out-of-beta/

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen Content Fusion version 5.0

The collaboration platform is designed to improve any documentation review process. New features include a new Search side-view, UI updates…
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/syncro-soft-releases-oxygen-content-fusion-version-5-0/

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This week we feature articles from Pete Warden, and Kovid Rathee.

Additional reading comes from Ng Wai Foong, Sean Hollister, Rand Fishkin, and Kevin Indig.

News comes from Franz, Finch Computing, Komprise, and MerlinOne.

Reminder: If you’ve missed any recent issues you can find them here.

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Opinion / Analysis

How should you protect your machine learning models and IP?

Pete Warden gets a lot of questions about this “usually… from executives, and digging deeper it became clear they were most worried about competitors gaining an advantage from what we released.”. It’s a good question and Warden provides good advice on what to do, and explains why it may be less of a problem than you think. (5 min)

https://petewarden.com/2022/05/08/how-should-you-protect-your-machine-learning-models-and-ip/

The landscape of time series databases

The growth of time series databases is not what it was, but it’s mostly because other types of databases have been incorporating more support for time based data. Kovid Rathee provides a useful update. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-landscape-of-timeseries-databases-95cd7f7ee64d

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More Reading…

• 20 open-source single speaker multilingual speech datasets via Towards Data Science
• Not a joke!… Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery via The Verge
• Google I/O 2022 – Ambient computing is getting real via Kevin Indig
• For those of you tracking… SparkToro & Followerwonk joint Twitter analysis: 19.42% of active accounts are fake or spam via SparkToro

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Content technology news

Relationship extraction with co-reference added to Finch for Text

Relationship extraction allows users to decipher relationships between entities. Co-reference resolves words like “her”, “the leader” appearing in text.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/relationship-extraction-with-co-reference-added-to-finch-for-text/

Franz releases AllegroGraph 7.3

AllegroGraph 7.3 extends GraphQL to Knowledge Graph Developers and Enterprise Data Fabrics with enhanced GraphQL query capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/franz-releases-allegrograph-7-3/

Komprise automates unstructured data discovery with Smart Data Workflows

To discover relevant file and object data across cloud, edge and on-premises datacenters and feed data in native format to ML tools and data lakes.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/komprise-automates-unstructured-data-iscovery-with-smart-data-workflows/

MerlinOne brings visual search to video for digital asset management

Just by describing a scene. NOMAD for Video from MerlinOne searches your collection and takes you there with no additional effort required.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/merlinone-brings-visual-search-to-video-for-digital-asset-management/

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This week we feature articles from Richard MacManus, and Chris Nielsen.

Additional reading comes from Alan Morrison, Mikkel Dengsøe, and Isaac Caswell & Ankur Bapna.

News comes from Google Translate, Acquia, Cloudflare, and Elastic Search.

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Opinion / Analysis

Does the fediverse point to our social media future?

Well, perhaps. There is certainly much that is appealing about the open source, standards-based, decentralized approach to social and web publishing and it’s most popular app, Mastodon. Richard MacManus is cautiously optimistic and correctly judicious regarding the timeframe in his answer (6 min).

https://thenewstack.io/the-fediverse-points-to-our-social-media-future-post-musk/

I replaced my native iOS app with a cross-platform web app and no one noticed

Chris Nielsen was shocked that performance was not an issue when he built a web app version of his animation-heavy iOS app. He was also pleasantly surprised to find the web app caused fewer bugs than the native version. Web apps have caught up to native apps in many/most ways, so if you are still maintaining three code bases you should take another look as Nielsen did (8 min).

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/i-replaced-my-native-ios-app-with-a-cross-platform-web-app-and-no-one-noticed-1653901ce244

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More Reading…

• What is the relation between Semantic Web and AI? Not new, but a fantastic answer (h/t @kurt_cagle) via Alan Morrison
• More details on the Google Translate news referenced below…  Unlocking zero-resource machine translation to support new languages in google translate via Google AI Blog
• Short and helpful… Data team structure: embedded or centralised? via Mikkel Dengsøe

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Google Translate learns 24 new languages

These are the first languages we’ve added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, where a machine learning model only sees monolingual text.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/google-translate-learns-24-new-languages/

Cloudflare and open source community to create new API standards

Developers will be able to write and run code and easily transfer it–between Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js seamlessly.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/cloudflare-and-open-source-community-to-create-new-api-standards/

Acquia expands FedRAMP Authority to Operate

Adds Acquia Site Studio, the latest versions of Acquia Search with Solr 7 and Acquia Platform Email capabilities to the FedRAMP boundary.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/acquia-expands-fedramp-authority-to-operate/

Elastic updates Elastic search platform

Enhanced capabilities include support for Elasticsearch query syntax, prebuilt Enterprise Search tools, out-of-the-box tuning and analytics tools…
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/elastic-updates-elastic-search-platform/

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This week we feature articles from Tiernan Ray, and Cristiana de Azevedo von Stosch & Abhishek Singh.

Additional reading comes from Scott Brinker, Julia Angwin & Joris van Hoboken, Janko Roettgers, and Thomas Claburn.

News comes from the FIDO Alliance, Apple, Google and Microsoft, Sinequa, TeamViewer & SAP, and AppTek.

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Opinion / Analysis

From the modern data stack to knowledge graphs

Tiernan Ray summarizes Microsoft and Snowflake veteran Bob Muglia’s keynote at last weeks Knowledge Graph Conference. Muglia’s presentation is about “relational knowledge graphs” that can model both data and and business rules. He is currently on the board of Relational AI, a startup building such a product. (4 min). Also see Has SQL gone too far?.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-veteran-bob-muglia-relational-knowledge-graphs-will-transform-business/

Why graph-modeling frameworks are the future of unsupervised learning

If you have too many features for the number of samples or want to remove co-linear features to improve your model, there are many techniques that can be applied in a supervised learning setting — Decision Trees, Random Forest, etc.

Until now, there are very few approaches that can identify feature importance in an unsupervised learning problem.

Cristiana de Azevedo von Stosch and Abhishek Singh propose a method for “feature selection based on feature importance determination [that] will reduce the processing time of any modeling approach.”. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-graph-modeling-frameworks-are-the-future-of-unsupervised-learning-2092b089caff

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More Reading…

• 32 illustrated martech stacks entered in The Stackies via chiefmartec
• Apple is a massive force in AR. It’s also been holding the technology back the market needs iOS support for WebXR via Protocol
• Really useful discussion… Understanding the Digital Services Act via The Markup
• Not obvious this helps… Google starts testing fenced frames to guard its Privacy Sandbox via The Register

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Content technology news

Apple, Google and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard

The new capability will allow websites and apps to offer consistent, secure, and easy passwordless sign-ins to consumers across devices and platforms.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard/

Sinequa Search Cloud available through Azure Marketplace

Customers can now fulfill license subscriptions for Sinequa under their existing MACC, allowing them to decrement pre-committed Azure spend.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/sinequa-search-cloud-available-through-azure-marketplace/

TeamViewer and SAP to digitalize warehouse operations with augmented reality

TeamViewer Frontline Augmented Reality (AR) solutions now enhance SAP Extended Warehouse Management with AR-based workflows.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/teamviewer-and-sap-to-digitalize-warehouse-operations-with-augmented-reality/

AppTek launches new metadata-informed neural machine translation system

Provides enterprises and translation professionals with customization options for multi-domain, multi-dialect, multi-genre translations.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/apptek-launches-new-metadata-informed-neural-machine-translation-system/

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This week we feature articles from Anil Dash and Jordan Volz.

Additional reading comes from Jason Cohen, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Terry Crowley.

News comes from Expert .ai, Searchable .ai, Microsoft, and Hyland.

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Opinion / Analysis

A web renaissance

I am as hopeful as Anil Dash about the possibility of something like a web renaissance and don’t disagree with what he says in his post (5 min). I built my own web site and have managed it since the nineties, and the ability to control my own content and presence was absolutely worth the effort. But I have seen countless businesses and individuals struggle with their own efforts, and remain cautious about the rate of adoption. Creating and maintaining a web presence today is already dramatically easier, and new tools will continue to make it less of a burden for developers and non-developers alike. But it needs to be simple enough to share space with your day job.

https://medium.com/@anildash/a-web-renaissance-3a1b16c898a6

Who’s who in the modern data stack ecosystem

We’ve covered the “modern data stack”a few times in the last year but Jordan Volz has a new “Spring 2022 Edition of the Modern Data Stack Ecosystem” (20 min) that is worth a read.

https://medium.com/@jordan_volz/whos-who-in-the-modern-data-stack-ecosystem-spring-2022-c45854653dc4

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More Reading…

• Nostalgic for the older versions of Word?… Where does bloat come from? via Terry Crowley
• Oldie but goodie… Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works via a smart bear blog
• Shifting your mindset from amateur to professional data analyst, the journey #2, via Towards Data Science

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Microsoft announces updates to Microsoft 365

To improve accessibility, support flexible workstyles, streamline tasks, and more ways to make your voice heard, and hybrid work easier.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/microsoft-announces-updates-to-microsoft-365/

Expert.ai updates AI-based natural language processing platform

Designed for natural language AI, the platform combines machine learning and rule-based symbolic comprehension with an authoring environment.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/expert-ai-updates-ai-based-natural-language-processing-platform/

Searchable.ai announces Constellation

Their unified data platform that brings together all the data and information that knowledge workers need, in one place.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/searchable-ai-announces-constellation/

Hyland expands infrastructure to deploy OnBase and Brainware customers on AWS

New deployments for OnBase and Brainware cloud customers and cloud migration environments in North America on the appropriate AWS Region.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/hyland-expands-infrastructure-to-deploy-onbase-and-brainware-customers-on-aws/

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This week we feature articles from Benn Stancil and Renee Shah.

Additional reading comes Mike Loukides, Eric Benjamin Seufert, Jakob Nielsen, and Cobus Greyling.

News comes from Netlify, Databricks, Element, and Akamai.

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Opinion / Analysis

Has SQL gone too far?

Like many of you, who have been focused largely on unstructured data management, I never expected SQL to remain so relevant for so long. Benn Stancil, who “has worked almost exclusively in SQL for” much of his career, has a thoughtful piece (8 min) explaining why he now thinks…

Just as SQL can, but shouldn’t, be used to define complex statistical analysis, perhaps SQL can, but probably shouldn’t, be used to model the complex operations of a business.

https://benn.substack.com/p/has-sql-gone-too-far?

How WebAssembly gets used: 18 startups building with Wasm

WebAssembly (Wasm) has been around for a few years, is maturing, and is something that software developers, and not just web developers, should have on their radar. Wasm is already being used or supported by Cloudflare, Adobe, Google, Amazon Prime, Lyft, Disney+, the BBC, and others; The W3C has just published working drafts for WebAssembly 2.0; And startups and investors see opportunity. In this post investor Renee Shah reports on how and why startups are using Wasm, and includes a link to an excellent primer for those of you unfamiliar with it. (14 min)

https://medium.com/@reneeshah/how-webassembly-gets-used-the-18-most-exciting-startups-building-with-wasm-939474e951db

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More Reading…

• Thoughts on chip futures… The general purpose pendulum via O’Reilly Radar
• Nuance Mix, conversational AI & dialog development via Cobus Greyling
• Unpacking the DSA’s impact on digital advertising via Mobile Dev Memo
• Best font for online reading: no single answer via Nielsen Norman Group

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Content technology news

Netlify Edge Functions accelerate web development at the edge

Netlify Edge Functions is built on Deno, an open source, standards-based runtime that enables instant compatibility with popular web frameworks.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/netlify-edge-functions-accelerate-web-development-at-the-edge/

Databricks announces lakehouse offering for media and entertainment

The lakehouse enables media organizations to deliver data and AI outcomes with a single, collaborative platform for data, analytics, and AI.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/databricks-announces-lakehouse-offering-for-media-and-entertainment/

Akamai launches Linode managed database

The managed database service powered by Linode has support for MySQL now, with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB coming in June.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/akamai-launches-linode-managed-database/

Element announces Connector Portal, Unify Graph, and Advanced Joins

To increase flexibility and speed up model development for organizations seeking to deploy digital twins or pursue industrial transformation.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/element-announces-connector-portal-unify-graph-and-advanced-joins/

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This week we feature articles from Ben Thompson and Jesus Rodriguez.

Additional reading comes from Pete Warden, Rand Fishkin, and Nature.

News comes from Adobe, dbt & Databricks, MongoDB & Google Cloud, Yext, and HeartCore.

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Opinion / Analysis

Back to the future of Twitter

Ben Thompson has a proposal for Elon Musk, or anyone else willing to take the company private, on what to do with Twitter’s business model that is definitely worth a read. It is one of his weekly posts so not behind his paywall.

If you are familiar with the Bluesky project initially funded by Twitter, and now a separate organization, you might wonder why Thompson didn’t mention it. In response to a question on Twitter on how it differed he said his “proposal is much more technically feasible”. Maybe, maybe not, but his business case is more developed. (10 min)

https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/

The paper that can change the foundations of all blockchain cryptography

The foundation of cryptographic techniques used in L1 and L2 blockchains is premised on the existence of one-way-functions. If a one-way-function exists for a given problem, then its cryptographically secured and, if not, its likely to be vulnerable to different attacks. However, so far it has been nearly impossible to prove the existence of one-way-functions. In their paper, researchers from Cornell University found an answer drawing parallels to an obscure area of computer science.

The math behind the paper is well beyond me, but Rodriguez provides an easily digestible description of why this is important (4 min).

https://medium.com/intotheblock/the-paper-that-can-change-the-foundations-of-all-blockchain-cryptography-6df9f077e9d3

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More Reading…

• Is Google Spying on your Conversations? Apparently not. via Pete Warden’s blog
• In case you were confused, prepare to be convinced… Provable marketing attribution is a boondoggle; Trust your gut instead via Sparktoro blog
• A look at some scientific applications of GNNs… The graph connection via Nature

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Content technology news

Adobe introduces Frame.io for Creative Cloud

With Frame.io for Creative Cloud, video editors and key project stakeholders are able to collaborate seamlessly in the cloud.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/adobe-introduces-frame-io-for-creative-cloud/

dbt Labs announces availability on Databricks Partner Connect

Databricks users will now be able to get started with dbt Cloud from directly within the Databricks interface.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/dbt-labs-announces-on-databricks-partner-connect/

MongoDB announces pay-as-you-go on Google Cloud

Google console integration will simplify discoverability, subscription, onboarding, and management of MongoDB Atlas when running on Google Cloud.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/mongodb-announces-pay-as-you-go-on-google-cloud/

Yext updates platform

Updated functions include the Nebula algorithm, posting modernization, search merchandiser, connectors, listings, and navigation.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/yext-updates-platform/

HeartCore upgrades content management system

New CMS version allows for centralized headless distribution of diversified content management and delivery (including PIM and DAM).
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/heartcore-upgrades-corporate-content-management-system/

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This week we feature articles from Ivo Velitchkov and John Ball.

Additional reading is from Cassie Kozyrkov, Chris Kernaghan, Enrique Dans, and dbt.

News comes from Sitecore, Google Cloud, Airbyte, and CYTRIO.

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Opinion / Analysis

Linked Data uptake

Linked Data … was meant to be the second big information revolution after the world wide web. It was supposed to complement the web of documents with the web of data so that humans and machines can use the Internet as if it is a single database while enjoying the benefits of decentralisation… Yet, Linked Enterprise Data, just like Linked Open Data, is still marginal. Why is that so? And what can be done about it?

Good questions, and Ivo Velitchkov is well-placed to provide some answers. (9 min.)

https://kvistgaard.medium.com/linked-data-uptake-7171309d3382

Brains are Not prediction machines

If you read Dan McCreary’s article we recently featured that was inspired by Jeff Hawkins’ A Thousand Brains, you’ll want to read this piece from John Ball (27 min.). Hawkins and Ball are not using ‘prediction’ in the same way — a good question for the next quiz! I just finished Hawkins’ book and recommend it. It’s written for a general audience.

https://medium.com/pat-inc/brains-are-not-prediction-machines-a6983b04bc52

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More Reading…

• More product and feature options than you thought… The next Google via dkb
• Thinking of becoming a data analyst? You’re one already!Got MS Paint? via Cassie Kozyrkov
• This 1998 Washington Post webpage shows just how broken the web of today is. True, but not all of it 🙂 via Chris Kernaghan
• Interesting idea… Chrome OS Flex: could be a great way to put old computers to use, via Enrique Dans

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Content technology news

Sitecore updates product suite with technology from recent acquisitions

The new capabilities in their Digital Experience Platform (DXP) come from the acquisitions of Boxever, Four51, Moosend, and Reflektion.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/sitecore-updates-product-suite-with-technology-from-recent-acquisitions/

Google announces BigLake, to unify data lakes and data warehouses across clouds

With BigLake teams can analyze data without worrying about the underlying storage format or system and without duplicating or moving data.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/google-announces-biglake-to-unify-data-lakes-and-data-warehouses-across-clouds/

Airbyte Cloud now available in U.S.

The open-source data integration platform is a cloud service for data movement and unifying data integration pipelines.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/airbyte-cloud-now-available-in-u-s/

CYTRIO adds GDPR support to data privacy rights management solution

To help companies more easily and cost-effectively comply with GDPR as well as CCPA, CPRA, VCDPA, CPA, and other data privacy regulations.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/cytrio-adds-gdpr-support-to-data-privacy-rights-management-solution/

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