Tangible Knowledge & Social Media
Posted on January 22, 2010
Filed Under collective intelligence, community, online collaboration, online video, social media, social networking, web evolution | View Comments
Here’s an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls “Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance”.
Some highlights from my transcription below. (Read more…)
Microformats for News Articles: the hNews Standard
Posted on November 23, 2009
Filed Under data portability, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, social networking, web access, web evolution | View Comments
A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it’s called hNews.
The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to disply these metadata in a user-friendly format. (Read more…)
Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace
Posted on November 10, 2009
Filed Under blogging, collective intelligence, community, creativity, online collaboration, open, social networking, web evolution, writing | View Comments
Interesting slides, that
“introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches.”
Web Evolution & Social Media
Posted on October 28, 2009
Filed Under blogging, collective intelligence, community, social media, social networking, web evolution | View Comments
Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries.
My personal highligths from this work: (Read more…)
Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists
Posted on October 26, 2009
Filed Under art, community, creativity, new business models, online collaboration, online music, p2p, social media, social networking, web evolution | View Comments
A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright.
It’s called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here’s the mission statement as stated on the blog page: (Read more…)
Open Access Week for Web Resources
Posted on October 19, 2009
Filed Under network neutrality, online collaboration, online search, online tools, open, web access, web evolution | View Comments
The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research.
This includes access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public.
So, what exactly is Open Access? (Read more…)
Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2
Posted on October 9, 2009
Filed Under collective intelligence, community, linked data, online collaboration, online search, search engine, semantic web, social networking, web evolution | View Comments
Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released.
From an interview with Nova Spivack (CEO of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine) we can argue four main points: (Read more…)
Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement
Posted on October 5, 2009
Filed Under data portability, linked data, online tools, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | View Comments
I’d like to quote the mission statement from the SWSE homepage, a “Semantic Web Search Engine” project attempting to crawl the web of data – including RSS, FOAF, RDF vocabularies… (Read more…)
Generative Movies & the Open Source Processing Software
Posted on September 23, 2009
Filed Under art, collective intelligence, community, creativity, online collaboration, online video, open, video | View Comments
The Snail on the Slope from tadar on Vimeo.
The video above is a generative movie developed with Processing 1.0, and based on a book of the same title by the Strugatsky brothers.
Processing 1.0 is an open source programming language and environment, created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. (Read more…)
Remix Culture, Creative Commons & a Short Stories Project in Literature
Posted on September 15, 2009
Filed Under art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online tools, open, social media, writing | View Comments
A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, “Through the Clock’s Workings”: it’s defined as the world’s first remixed and remixable anthology of literature.
That means you have the rights to download, share, reuse the book as you wish – obviously for free – under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (Attribution – Non Commercial – ShareAlike)… (Read more…)
Semantic Web: Some Key Points
Posted on September 1, 2009
Filed Under blogging, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, web evolution | View Comments
Photo credit: Fotos by Dee
-
The Semantic Web is primarily an infrastructure technology that will bring new informations to the Web, helping to link sites to each other & to create more information that can be somehow “understood” by the computer. This is supposed to happen through an actual integration with the current Web.
The Open Video Alliance, Open Source Video & the Kaltura Platform
Posted on July 30, 2009
Filed Under art, community, creativity, online collaboration, online video, open, social media, video | View Comments
Kaltura is an open source video platform, from its video codec to its back-end systems for uploading, hosting, embedding, syndicating, analyzing and inserting advertisements into videos.
Anyone can use the code for free: clients pay only for custom installation, integration, and support, depending on their level of traffic.
Kaltura is also co-founder of the Open Video Conference that took place in NYC on June 19-20, along with the Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale Internet Society Project and iCommons.
So, what is actually Open Video? (Read more…)
Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video
Posted on July 14, 2009
Filed Under art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online video, social media, video, web evolution | View Comments
An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below:
We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet.
Copyright law is all about balance – giving copyright owners reasonable protection while assuring creators the ability to make new works using old culture. (Read more…)
SemTech 09: Semantic Search Key Points in Hakia Philosophy
Posted on July 9, 2009
Filed Under linked data, online search, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | View Comments
The annual Semantic Technology conference (held in San Josè, California) presented all the major players in the field: Ask, Bing, Google, Hakia, TrueKnowledge, and Yahoo!.
One of the main issues debated was regarding Semantic Search.
In the presentation held by Hakia CEO dr. Berkan we find some key points: (Read more…)
Open Source Movies & Animations, Remixable Films & the Mash-up Culture
Posted on June 26, 2009
Filed Under art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online video, social media, video | View Comments
Elephants Dream from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts:
- open, collaborative projects maintained by a community;
- open source software;
- the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.
Subscribe to my feed
-
Social Homes
