Digital Rights: the “Teaching Copyright” Project by the EFF for Students & Educators
Posted on June 19, 2009
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A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.
There are lots of free resources for both student and educators, available in PDF documents, external links, or “Frequently Asked Questions” pages; you can access all of them on the TeachingCopyright website, which is structured as a curriculum… (Read more…)
The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 – Video & Transcription
Posted on June 16, 2009
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Here’s a great video presentation I found about the Semantic Web; I transcripted all the main parts here below.
Text transcription:
The Internet as we know it today is in an extending success: more than 1.300.000.000 (1,3 billions) people are connected to the Web across the globe. (Read more…)
Semantic Web: Common Tag Announced as a New Format for Development
Posted on June 13, 2009
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A new format named Common Tag has been developed by major companies operating in the field of the Semantic Web to address the problems related to the ambiguities in Web contents.
Content is tagged with unique and well-defined concepts; also, access is provided to useful metadata that defines each concept, and describes how the concepts relate to one another. (Read more…)
Trent Reznor, Trolls & Anonymous Posts on Social Media
Posted on June 12, 2009
Filed Under art, community, creative commons, creativity, marketing, new business models, online collaboration, online music, social media, social networking, web evolution | View Comments
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Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that “the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise.”
So, he can’t be there anymore, struggling with all the frustration for the trolls and spammers and haters and “troublemakers” in a complete waste of energy.
I was quite interested into his words, even if his long post on the Nine Inch Nails official forum resembles quite more of a rant in most passages, than a dialectic – like his attack on “unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands”, or his final conclusion that “idiots rule”. (Read more…)
Real-Time Web: Filtering the Streams of Data
Posted on June 3, 2009
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What does “real-time web” actually mean? Basically, getting all the informations you’re looking for at the very moment they’re are produced, from your sources of choice.
It’s definetely some kind of new wave of evolution in the web; and it’s already a reality for some social media.
Twitter or Facebook, for instance, can act as real-time discovery engines (in regards to some of their functions, search-related), in opposition to traditional search engines as Google. (Read more…)
Facebook Application for Choosing Your Creative Commons License
Posted on May 19, 2009
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A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared.
This is done by creating a badge through a combination of the usual options for licenses: attribution, sharealike, non-commercial, and so on… (Read more…)
Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine – First Official Demo
Posted on April 30, 2009
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Two days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University.
The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find some highlights I transcripted from his speech. Unfortunately we can’t see the screen of the demo during the presentation.
Also, today he’s been writing further about the project on his blog. (Read more…)
Freemium Music Business Models: a Case Study – Corey Smith
Posted on April 24, 2009
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In the music business Corey Smith can be considered a case study, as he has been capable of raising millions of dollars giving away his music for free and building at the same time a closer relationship with his fans.
What’s even more interesting is the experiment of last summer.
Corey’s tracks are also on iTunes. When they took the free tracks down from Corey site, iTunes actually went down. So they had to put the free tracks back up online, and the sale started rising again.
In Corey’s words, from one of his lectures: (Read more…)
Linked Data & the BBC Music Platform Relaunch
Posted on April 14, 2009
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The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources.
The main source for retrieving and mashing the informations (together with sites like Wikipedia and MySpace) is MusicBrainz, a “user-maintained community music meta-database”, which offers the end-user the possibility to edit the data. (Read more…)
Open Source/Free Music & New Models of Selling Music Online
Posted on April 3, 2009
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Shuman Ghosemajumder proposed 2003 a “new business model for the digital distribution of music” (PDF), namely a peer-to-peer system with a flat monthly fee of $5 for unlimited downloads, and proportional compensation for content owners.
In addition, it would have the following five “open” characteristics:
1. Open File Sharing: users must be free to share files on their hard drives with each other.
2. Open File Formats: content must be distributed in MP3 and other formats with NO digital rights management protection.
3. Open Membership: content owners must able to freely register to receive compensation.
4. Open Payment: users must be able to access the system using either credit cards or access cards purchasable anonymously in cash from retail stores.
5. Open Competition: there must be multiple such systems which can tie into each other’s file sharing databases. It must not be a monopoly through legal design. (Read more…)
Semantics & Thought Networking in Primal Fusion Alpha Release
Posted on March 21, 2009
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Primal Fusion is a Waterloo-based startup that is about to come out of stealth mode, with a technology focused in semantic data retrieval.
You can find transcription of the main issues of this video presentation down here below: (Read more…)
Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha
Posted on March 17, 2009
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The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first “computational knowledge engine”, something capable of answering factual question for you.
The Wolfram engine is described as “a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it”.
The engine is scheduled to sort out of his private demo in May and most details have yet to be released to the public; nonetheless, Nova Spivack, CEO at Radar Networks (which developed Twine) saw the demo and had a chance to talk with Wolfram himself (which is quite rare, given the almost legendary elusive nature of the author)… (Read more…)
CC Zero: Creative Commons & the Public Domain
Posted on March 12, 2009
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It has been recently announced by the Creative Commons Foundation that a new tool called CC Zero (or simply, CC0) is now ready to use; something very close to a “No Rights Reserved” concept.
The CC0 project actually started out around December 2007, but it has reached the format of a full 1.0 version only in the last days.
CC0 is defined not so much as a license, as it is a waiver. If you use it for a work you have created, you waive all copyrights related to the work. (Read more…)
Open Platform for Free Content Launched by the Guardian
Posted on March 10, 2009
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The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called “Open Platform“, which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper.
The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content.
Another part of Open Platform, the Data Store, provides statistics and data curated by Guardian editors and open for other to use. (Read more…)
Semantic Web: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes
Posted on March 4, 2009
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Here’s an excellent, concise presentation by Tom Llube explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum.
Transcription below:
A revolution is happening in the structure of the web itself. It’s gentle and it’s powerful, it’s like tai-chi: you hardly know that is happening, but when it hits, it has a massive impact.
That’s what the semantic web is about. (Read more…)
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