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Today we announced the winners of this year’s Triplification Challenge, which have been selected from 23 submissions. Open Government Data Track Winner: Richard Cyganiak, Fadi Maali and Vassilios Peristeras, “Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks” Honorary Mention: Christoph Boehm, Felix Naumann, Markus Freitag, Stefan George, Norman Höfler, Martin Köppelmann, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher and Tobias Schmidt, “Linking Open Government Data: What Journalists Wish They Had Known” Honorary Mention: Alexander De Leon, Victor Saquicela, Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Freddy Priyatna, Oscar Corcho, Carlos Buil, Jose Mora and Jean Paul Calbimonte, “Geographical Linked Data: a Spanish Use Case” Open …

I’ve just released a new version of the Sesame 2 Windows Client . Thanks to a new co-developer, Anton Andreev (of OntoText ), the SWC tool is now a full-fledged SPARQL client: it can connect to any SPARQL endpoint, not just Sesame servers. Apart from this new feature, the tool also has a couple of other improvements: context information fetching can now be disabled when connecting to large repositories; namespace clauses can now be automatically generated, based on the prefixes used in the query. The only problem with this new release is that the name of the tool is now …

This epic posting on MVC helped me better understand the pattern, and all the variants that have flowed outward from the original design. One interesting observation is that the earlier designs used Views primarily as output-only, and Controllers primarily as input-only, and as a consequence the Controller was the one true path for getting data into the Model. But with browser forms, input and output are tightly intermingled. The View takes care of input and output. Something else has primary responsibility for mediating the data flow to and from the model–and that something has been called a Presenter. This yields …

Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter : “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites. When there’s a match, users can be warned before they continue.” Declan McCullagh reports that Twitter announced in an email message that when someone click “on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will …

So, there’s a new kind of Android device in the world. The world still isn’t sure just where it is that tablets are the right tool for the job. That granted, this is a nifty product. And I’m developing my own theory of what tablets are for. My impressions are based on a couple hours playing with one, which at this point is a couple hours more than almost anyone else. The model I played was not quite production â€” among other things, the product name stenciled on the back wasn’t “Galaxy Tab” â€” but close. I won’t have one on next week’s trip …