Bruce Schneier: Our Data, Ourselves

5 months ago

danbri's foaf stories (danbri.org) - Via Libby; Bruce Schneier on data: In the information age, we all have a data shadow. We leave data everywhere we go. It’s not just our bank accou ... Details

mash up the data

5 months ago

digitalassetmanagementorguk.wordpress.com - Sleepless in NY The shift from social media to semantic web This weekend was quite exciting with both businessweek and NYT examining, from 2 differ ... Details

Is the Internet for the empty space in our brains?

5 months ago

digitalassetmanagementorguk.wordpress.com - I have always been fascinated how a seed turns into a tree, all the knowledge compacted into a tiny life form. I have always wondered why we humans appear to only use a fraction of our brains capacity, and what Einstein meant by training his brain. My Desktop/Browser Web 2.5 It is Saturday morning, ... Details

Semantisches Suchmaschinen-Online-Spiel

5 months ago

infowiss.wordpress.com - Quelle: heise.de 24.05.2008 ... Details

webinale 2008 starts today

5 months ago

bnode.org - Still a few hours left to finish my presentations, then I'll join Germany's WebDev crowd at the webinale 2008 in Karlsruhe (It's taking place at the same location as this year's ISWC). My talks are about "Semantic Web Tech 'n' Use" (mostly microformats, RDFa, SPARQL), and RDF-based "Online Social Gr ... Details

Platform Based Search

5 months ago

www.iconofy.com - Is it possible that Yahoo has done the impossible, jumping Google on the Semantic front? I have been playing with SearchMonkey which utilises a couple of semantic web features and uses them well. There are a couple of bvig decisions at play here. The first is that Yahoo has chosen RDFa as the stand ... Details

2nd workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL)

5 months ago

Hendrik Drachsler : Activity (elgg.ou.nl) - 2nd workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) I have the pleasure to be again a member of the program committee of the 2nd workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) that will take place at the upcoming EC-TEL confer ... Details

Why Facebook Matters and Social Web Development w/ Ruby - Talk Slides from the World’s 1st Open Web Conference Now Online

5 months ago

geraldbauer.wordpress.com - Thanks for attending Vancouver’s 1st (Open)Social(Web)Camp hosted at the world’s 1st Open Web Conference in Vancouver, B.C. If you missed out I’ve ... Details

Generation Next of Advertising -II-

5 months ago

Web In A Shell (www.bulentongun.com) - Generation Next of Advertising -II- What’s Next in Advertising? Out Guess and Out Perform Out guessing or out thinking your competitors when it c ... Details

Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008

5 months ago

www.frenzyblogging.com - Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008 May 24th, 2008 Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we explored: next gen apps outside the browser, uses for wikis, Facebook’s usefulness (or lack thereof), the public launch of Google Health, and 4 ... Details

Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity

5 months ago

www.tagdir.net - By A. Maguitman, F. Menczer, F. Erdinc, H. Roinestad and A. Vespignani, Indiana University. In: World Wide Web, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2006. An information-theoretic measure of semantic similarity between pages exploiting both hierarchical and non-hierarchical ODP structure improves on taxonomy-based ap ... Details

Machine tagging relationships

5 months ago

factoryjoe.com - I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about how to represent relationships in portable contact lists. Many of my concerns stem from two basic probl ... Details

Faviki: Bookmark Web Pages With Semantic Tags From Wikipedia

5 months ago

B.E.T.A. Daily (www.betadaily.com) - Faviki is another entrant in the semantic tagging space which lets you tag your saved web pages with semantic information from Wikipedia.  The idea behind Faviki is that all people should be able to use same tags to identify any web page. Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which lets you save we ... Details

Beyond Google 3: Why a Semantic Web Will Be Smarter, Faster & All-Around Better

5 months ago

e-reality-database.blogspot.com - Beyond Google 3: Why a Semantic Web Will Be Smarter, Faster & All-Around Better: "Someday the entire world will likely have access to virtual “so ... Details

Semantic Tech Conference quick report

5 months ago

www.zemanta.com - Image via WikipediaAs Zemanta’s CTO I spent last three days at Semantic Tech Conference trying to figure out where all this semantic stuff is going. The question if this semantic technologies are going to benefit enterprise and vertical markets is largely resolved. The answer is clear yes. Large ... Details

Announcing LinqToRdf v0.7

5 months ago

aabs.wordpress.com - I’m proud to say that I’ve finally uploaded version 0.7 of LinqToRdf. This is by far the best release of LinqToRdf (so far), and it now contains full support for relationship navigation out of the box. Relationship support has always been possible (provided you were intimately familiar with vari ... Details

SemTech 2008

5 months ago

ivanherman.wordpress.com - I just came back from the SemTech conference in San Jose: a great (almost) week. Obviously, it had a social aspect: meeting lots of people is always a pleasure. Friends and colleagues I have not seen for a long time (possibly years) or, a frequent occurrence, meeting people with whom I had contacts ... Details

The Machine is Using Us

5 months ago

tubebusiness.blogspot.com - Seen on: YouTube "Web 2.0" in just under 5-minutes. Watch closely to learn & reap great rewards. ... Details

Semantic Technology Conference: Days 3, 4, and 5

5 months ago

thatlarkin.wordpress.com - The conference is over, and there as expected, there is still no consensus as to what “semantic web technologies” actually mean not to mention their utility. However, what is universally agreed is that applications that engage web-based information will continue to grow in sophistication. Who wo ... Details

The web as platform: A science Data Commons

5 months ago

mndoci.com - Cameron Neylon has a wonderful post on how we can build a Data Commons for the sciences. Cameron brings together two intricately interwoven concepts. ... Details