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What is
N-Topus?
N-topus is a consulting and software development company
based in Hamilton NY. We write books and speak at professional
conferences. Our main products have been multimedia educational
materials. We're currently reconstructing
our MannX
(Multimedia Annotator - XML) technology -- it was built around
Quicktime for Java and then retargetted for Sun's Java Media Framework,
but we are now developing Flash-based material; see
our annotation of
Jon Udell's KeeneFlood,
which also uses the hierarchy-of-topics structure we recently reported in
SWAP 2005: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, 2nd Italian Semantic Web Workshop,
our paper being
(PDF)
Semantic Annotations for Digital Video.
The quicktime Multimedia Intermediate Russian Textbook
is therefore not for sale at the moment, but here's a
review from
calico.org; an overall evaluation of 4 out of 5, with caution that
it's awkward to install and should be more extensible. Fair enough; if
we can get it to work with FLV movies, it will only require an up-to-date
browser with Flash.
Contact n-topus for
further details.
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Books
Alexander
Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers have co-authored a series of books and book
sections on Javascript, Java, XML, and the Semantic Web. Our most
recent publication is (as of February 2005) in press; it's a chapter in
the
second edition of
Visualizing
the Semantic Web
by Vladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen. A year ago
(end of 2003) we finished
Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
; the
slashdot description is that "it's
useful for developers on both sides of a web-service transaction, but
honestpuck cautions that its value varies with your attachment to
Java."
Our co-authored books began with
Javascript
Objects in 1998; then
Professional
Java XML Programming with servlets and JSP in 1999 (this
actually came to amazon.com early in January of 2000, but we were
delighted to see that the Amazon-assigned publication date was 1912.
We've
been doing Java for a long time). We wrote parts of the multi-author
Wrox books
Professional
JSP : Using JavaServer Pages, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, XSLT, and
WML,
Professional
WAP,
and
Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition, all in 2000. In
2002 we switched from Wrox to Apress and finished
XML
Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP,
followed by
Google, Amazon and Beyond, and a chapter of
Visualizing
the Semantic Web
, with Springer, as already mentioned.
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