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To Revenue becomes GrowthTimes

September 14th, 2009 by Greg Boutin

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To Revenue has a new address! I have decided to rename To Revenue into Growth Times, to better convey this blog’s core concept: assisting growth companies in their journey towards explosive growth. Additionally, most of my clients have already achieved revenues, so To Revenue was a bit of misnomer.

A little more profoundly perhaps, in this time of recession, I also want it to express my belief that the ultimate antidote to all crisis is human creativity and innovation, targeted towards solving real problems and driven by a sense of financial, social and environmental purpose.

And lastly, it’s a better-sounding and more attractive domain name. Let’s not underestimate the power of packaging and marketing!

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How Semantic are Google, Calais and Linked Data?

February 6th, 2009 by Greg Boutin

Time flies and I am slowly catching up with my to-do list. This is one to-do I should really have completed earlier…. oh well…: in January I met with the Semantic Web Gang for our monthly podcast, which can be found here.

In it, we welcome 3 new regular members who have already started to enrich our perspectives. We talked about the new version 4.0 of the Open Calais service, and I impatiently asked Tom Tague how long we'll have to wait for the "mainstream" version of OpenCalais, which I see as an app that will turn the existing webpages into semantic webpages on-the-fly.

I also bring up some of my pet topics around a URI of URIs, and differ a little with Alex on the importance of Google showing "a la semantic" results (hint: even if it's not "semantic" as per the strict definition of a purist like Alex, I think it's a great signal of market adoption).

We'd like to hear what you think.

Ps. I also completed a post on my other blog To Revenue, on the widespread "Customer Deficit Disorder" affliction, which I think is particularly relevant to ventures in the semantic space and emanate directly from some of my past experience in the field. Check it out.