Today opened with a keynote by two speakers one from Oracle and one from Microsoft. Mary-Ann Davidson, from Oracle, addressed security and was a good talk, however really oriented towards the industry ‘persons’ in the audience. After this discussion, Tony Hey from Microsoft gave a second keynote which was focused around Microsoft’s interest e-Science etc. […]

After last night’s “buffet” (which really means light snacking) at the Edinburgh Castle and a night of scripting, Chris and I are presenting “Tools for the Semantic Web” — Swoop (debugging/visualization) and PhotoStuff. Chris had been taking pictures around the conference for annotation. The conference’s wireless is… terrible (11b, and obviously the relay points are […]