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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I hope you’ve all had safe and pleasant holidays so far this season, and that those to come are equally happy. This will be the last issue of 2021. Our next issue will arrive January 5th, though it’s possible we’ll publish a few news items on our blog in the meantime.

This week we have content from Cassie Kozyrkov, and Scott Brinker. News comes from Adobe, MACH Alliance and Netlify and MongoDB, SnapLogic, Datadobi, and Datawords and Contentful.

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Opinion / Analysis

Data, decisioning, delivery & design: A framing for the CDP vs. CDW debate

Competing and overlapping data management approaches and products complicate vertical and horizontal stack decisions, not to mention operational data control / influence, process, and budget changes. The customer data platform versus cloud data warehouse debate is especially relevant to martech stacks, but as Scott Brinker points out, also important to other domain-specific stacks. Scott zooms out and provides some really useful ways to think about the problem generally, and how to approach it.

https://chiefmartec.com/2021/12/data-decisioning-delivery-design-a-framing-for-the-cdp-vs-cdw-debate/

Making friends with machine learning

This is the title of an internal full-day course created for Google employees, both technical and non-technical, recently made freely available to all. I have watched the first of the four sections and the content and delivery were spectacular. I’m looking forward to watching the rest over the holidays. Presenter Cassie Kozyrkov…

The course is designed to give you the tools you need for effective participation in machine learning for solving business problems and for being a good citizen in an increasingly AI-fueled world. MFML is perfect for all humans; it focuses on conceptual understanding (rather than the mathematical and programming details) and guides you through the ideas that form the basis of successful approaches to machine learning. It has something for everyone!

https://kozyrkov.medium.com/the-best-ai-course-youve-ever-watched-c15e0a0bbb0a

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Content technology news

Adobe introduces Creative Cloud Express

A unified task-based, web and mobile product to make it easy to create and share rich multimedia content; free to start and available to all now.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/adobe-introduces-creative-cloud-express/

MACH Alliance announces MongoDB and Netlify as members

New membership category applies to organizations that enable MACH providers to deliver a service or technology but don’t offer a direct MACH solution.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/mach-alliance-announces-mongodb-and-netlify-as-members/

SnapLogic updates Intelligent Integration Platform

Improvements include self-service for API consumers, enhanced support for data warehouse tools, and added features for SnapLogic Flows.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/snaplogic-updates-intelligent-integration-platform/

Datadobi launches multi-petabyte Starter Packs

The offering is purpose-built to bolster unstructured data management projects’ success in data-heavy, high-volume environments.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/datadobi-launches-multi-petabyte-starter-packs/

Datawords partners with Contentful

To help in-house digital teams combine technology integration and cultural expertise to facilitate the work for global customers.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/datawords-partners-with-contentful/

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This week we have articles from Erik Bernhardsson, and Roger Martin. News comes from RWS / Tridion, Optimizely and Welcome, MongoDB, eccenca, and Quantinuum.

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Opinion / Analysis

Singing the data analytics blues

It just ain’t what it is cracked up to be… I get a seemingly endless flow of complaints about Data Analytics (DA for short), even though it is the hottest thing in business these days. Why isn’t DA giving me the insights that it is supposed to provide? We have a DA team now, but the little startups keep figuring stuff out before us and beating us?

Roger Martin has essential reminders for some of us, and a handy short piece for all to share with colleagues who are asking questions like these.

https://rogermartin.medium.com/singing-the-data-analytics-blues-58fdf93b27bf

How the cloud will be reshuffled

Though cloud computing is not at all new, is a large and growing market, and is dominated by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, how it will evolve is unclear. Just as cloud computing makes it possible for startups to jump start, and enterprises to slash some infrastructure costs, it adds cost and complexity to software engineering, and adds future lock-in and data integration and repatriation risks. In addition, while the big three will likely remain entrenched at the lowest level of the computing stack, we don’t know who will share the other layers, or how they will overlap. Erik Bernhardsson has a theory worth checking out, and includes link to his critics.

https://erikbern.com/2021/11/30/storm-in-the-stratosphere-how-the-cloud-will-be-reshuffled.html

More reading…

• Useful summary… Radar trends to watch: December 2021 via O’Reilly Radar
• Not a must-have, maybe a nice-to-have for some… Second Life creator has doubts about the metaverse via Axios
• Slides from this year’s presentation… Three steps to the future via Benedict Evans

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Content technology news

eccenca updates multi-graph platform

New eccenca Corporate Memory multi-graph platform release focused on making knowledge graph technology accessible to business users with no-code.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/eccenca-updates-multi-graph-platform/

RWS embeds semantic AI capabilities in Tridion

To help companies create, manage, and deliver intuitive multilingual content and digital experiences to customers, employees and partners across channels.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/rws-embeds-semantic-ai-capabilities-in-tridion/

Optimizely to acquire Welcome

Will combine content management, commerce, content marketing, marketing resource management and digital asset management in a single solution.
https://gilbane.com/2021/12/optimizely-to-acquire-welcome/

MongoDB announces pay-as-you-go offering in AWS Marketplace

The new pay-as-you-go option is another way to procure MongoDB in addition to privately negotiated offers already supported on AWS Marketplace.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/mongodb-announces-pay-as-you-go-offering-in-aws-marketplace/

Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions merge into Quantinuum

Quantinuum includes Cambridge Quantum software, operating systems, and cybersecurity, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions hardware.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/cambridge-quantum-and-honeywell-quantum-solutions-merge-into-quantinuum/

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This week we have articles from Viet Nguyen, and Eric Benjamin Seufert. News comes from Marklogic and Smartlogic, Jina AI, Meltwater and DeepReason.AI, and Strapi.

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Opinion / Analysis

Blockchain explained in 50 lines of code

Don’t skip over this article if you’re not a programmer, or because you already understand how blockchains work. Software developer Viet Nguyen delivers on the title with a delightfully clear and simple explanation in both English and JavaScript. If you already understand blockchains, you may pick up some pointers for explaining it to others.

https://medium.com/geekculture/blockchain-explained-in-50-lines-of-code-1dbf4eda0201

The perilous mythology of brand marketing for digital products

…the misconception that Brand marketing sits in opposition to Performance marketing creates misalignment and confusion that can result in a Brand function that exists in parallel to a Performance marketing team. Optimally, the Brand function should sit within the Performance Marketing team and be guided by a unified measurement model.

Eric Benjamin Seufert provides a helpful framework for pulling together competing marketing strategies and tactics.

https://mobiledevmemo.com/understanding-the-role-of-brand-marketing-for-digital-products/

More reading…

• Truth to power and the naive… 4 changes the AI industry needs right now via Alberto Romero
• Ben Thompson… Twitter has a new CEO; what about a new business model? via Stratechery
• From directional to logical properties in CSS… Faulty logic via Adactio
• Interesting book review: A Biography of a Pixel via Technology Review

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Content technology news

MarkLogic acquires metadata management provider Smartlogic

Smartlogic has deciphered, filtered, and connected data for global organizations to help solve their complex data problems.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/marklogic-acquires-metadata-management-provider-smartlogic/

Strapi CMS v4 released

The open-source “headless” content management system CMS update enhances overall performance, introduces new query engine and plug-in APIs.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/strapi-cms-v4-released/

Meltwater acquires DeepReason.ai

To help build one of the largest knowledge graphs of public information. The technology represents 75 years of aggregate research in Graph Reasoning.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/meltwater-acquires-deepreason-ai/

Jina AI raises $30 million to scale open-source neural search ecosystem

Jina AI’s core project, built in the open on GitHub, users can quickly create a cloud-native neural search solution with deep learning.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/jina-ai-raises-30-million-to-scale-open-source-neural-search-ecosystem/

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