February 2009
3 posts
2 tags
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Singularity University to open its doors June 2009 →
January 2009
15 posts
3 tags
Blog Smarter | Zemanta Ltd. →
I am blogging smarter now that I’ve installed and am using the Zemanta Firefox addon. I hate tagging posts. Not only do I now get instant tags, but the associated photos and related content is awesome. Zemanta is going right to the top of my list of fav SemWeb apps!
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Free Online Course Materials | Courses | MIT... →
100,000 books on Freebase →
What are Spimes? →
According to the restricted definition adopted by OpenSpime, an object is a spime if it has:
a GPS unit, or other location-aware technologies to know where it is, and when it is
communcation capabilities with the Internet, directly, or through gateways
memory for storing its data until it can communicate
a sensor, to measure a value about the world around it.
via Silverton on Twitter
Blue Brain Project →
The Blue Brain project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
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WatchDale tells us that “Face-to-face interfacing is obsolete”. This episode of King of the Hill is awesome.
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Obama, security aides, still debating Blackberry →
White House officials have worried that a president’s e-mails can be subpoenaed by Congress and the courts and may be subject to public records laws. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton didn’t e-mail while in office.
How does one function without an iPhone or Blackberry?
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August 2008
12 posts
Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and... →
Definitely going to check this out!
“One of the advantages of how RDF works is that it is possible to query a dataset...”
– S is for Semantics: RDF as self-describing data
Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before... →
Build Your Own Social Network with SocialGO →
SocialGO is a new Ning competitor that is currently testing in private beta.
Firefox and Twitter implementing OAuth →
“Google adopted OAuth for all the Google Data APIs this summer, so there’s really no reason why 3rd party apps should ask you for any Google passwords ever again.
This is all very good news for everyone. Secure user authentication equals greater user trust, which equals developer access to more user data. More developer access to user data equals more innovation. More innovation makes...
Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? -... →
“Tim Berners-Lee recently said that the success of the Semantic Web should be...”
– Semantic Web by Example: Semantic CrunchBase - benjamin nowack’s blog
“The new user experience is about fluidity. The innovations have set the bar for...”
– Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms « Alex Iskold Technology Blog
“As Tim Berners-Lee did in Beijing, Kelly draws parallels between the size of the...”
– Kevin Kelly looks to the next 5,000 days of the Web | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com
June 2008
7 posts
“We’re not trying to replace human intelligence”, but “free...”
– Can Semantic Web capture nuances?
Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate - ReadWriteWeb
Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th -... →
Things I’m most excited about…
One-click bookmarking (cuz I do a lot of bookmarking)
Tags for bookmarks - this one is my favorite! mmmmmm….yeah….tags for bookmarks…that’s gooood.
Want to Go Shopping? Break Out Your Mobile Phone -... →
Great article on m-commerce with stats indicating it’s still in its infancy, but that this is a trend that’s about to take off.
WorldWide Science
WorldWideScience: Like Google for Deep Web Science - ReadWriteWeb
Need to get access to real scientific data but having trouble finding any relevant search results in Google? That could be because a lot of the science and technology documents on the web aren’t typically indexed by major search engines. They’re a part of the “deep web,” the repository of web pages usually...
Brands + Amplification = Influence →
markbean:
“1. Blogs are only effective if you already have a brand. People come here, or go read Seth Godin, or Marshall Goldsmith, or Jeffrey Gitomer, or David Meister, because we’re all well…
Tagging and the Semantic Web
Here is a short list of limitations which I feel the Semantic Web web will address:
- Tags do not provide enough meaningful metadata to make meaningful comparisons
- More information is needed besides their origin - Tags are essentially a full text search mechanism, although faceting helps
- Need more relationships between tags and the objects they pertain to
The solution, tags as objects
...
May 2008
5 posts
Coming Soon: A Web-Wide Social Network? →
Three announcements, all within a week of each other, were indicative of the same trend: that the future of online social networking doesn’t live within a single entity’s walls but instead permeates the web.
Aaack! Nooooo, Powerset please don't let the Borg...
Powerset’s Wikipedia search engine isn’t going to slow down the Google in the near term, but it will raise the bar on the search experience for all players. “There are implications beyond Wikipedia,” Pell said. ” Search is not done. You can see the emerging Semantic Web with our integration of Wikipedia and Freebase. We will add other components with structured data...
Watchoris: peterwknox: vasta: If anyone asks you why you spend so much time blogging or doing fun stuff on the web, tell them to watch this video. This is great, like I thought it would be. “It’s better to be doing something than nothing” and all those hours people spend watching television before there was the internet are now being spent online. Media used to be just “produce and consume” but...
“The Semantic Web does not replace humans or take them out of the equation. It...”
– Minding the Planet
I have Twine invites to give away!
nu: I’ve been in the private beta for Twine for a while now. Just now finding time to really explore it and dig in. If there are any of you who are interested in one of the coolest Semantic Web apps out there, then drop me an email and let me know why you are interested in getting an invite — marcyannekessler(at)gmail(dot)com. I have 24 invites to give away and they’re going fast. With over...
“The Semantic Web is not a Walled Garden.”
– Nodalities » Blog Archive » Walled gardens: mapping the parties
April 2008
15 posts
WatchOf course I totally agree with all of Nova’s SemWeb related predictions. Interesting one about the future of Facebook. Worth watching…check it out.
We're Nothing Alike
Person 1: "What do you do for a living?"
Person 2: "I work with computers."
Person 1: "So do I! What do you do with computers?"
Person 2: "I'm a Web developer."
Person 1: "So am I! Design, client-side programming or server-side programming?"
Person 2: "Server-side programming."
Person 1: "Same here! Do you use dynamically typed languages or statically typed languages?"
Person 2: "Dynamically typed languages."
Person 1: "So do I! Do you use a Web framework, or do you roll things on your own?"
Person 2: "I use a Web framework."
Person 1: "So do I! Django or Rails?"
Person 2: "Django."
Person 1: "We have nothing in common! Die heretic scum!"
