Category Archives: social media

Semantic Browsing of Video using Ontologies

Posted on November 11, 2010 by admin

Semantic browsing View more documents from Andrea Ferracani. Interesting presentation of a web-based tool for a semantic browsing of video collections, useful for media sharing networks like YouTube, Flickr and twitter…

Posted in browser, online search, online tools, online video, semantic web, social media, video, web evolution | Tagged Andrea Ferracani, collective intelligence, Giuseppe Serra, Information, Information science, Internet application, Knowledge engineering, Knowledge representation, Marco Bertini, Marco Meoni, media sharing networks, Microformat, Ontology, PDF, semantic web, Social Media Ventures Inc, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, web evolution, Web-based semantic browsing, web-based tool, World Wide Web, YouTube Inc | 1 Comment

Tangible Knowledge & Social Media

Posted on January 22, 2010 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in collective intelligence, community, online collaboration, online video, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged Artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, Culture, Cyberspace, finance, Futurology, Holy Grail, Information Age, Innovation, Knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, Philosophy, Science, social media, Superorganisms | 2 Comments

Microformats for News Articles: the hNews Standard

Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in data portability, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, social networking, web access, web evolution | Tagged HNews, Index term, Information retrieval, Knowledge representation, Metadata, Microformat, online news, Semantic HTML, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Web Science Reaseach Initiative | 3 Comments

Web Evolution & Social Media

Posted on October 28, 2009 by admin

The Magic of Social Networks View more presentations from Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center. Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, collective intelligence, community, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged blogosphere, collective intelligence, community building, Cultural economics, Digital Revolution, internet, Knowledge Sharing & Collective Intelligence, Pew Research Center, Polling, Social information processing, social network, Technology/Internet | 2 Comments

Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists

Posted on October 26, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, community, creativity, new business models, online collaboration, online music, p2p, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged Billy Bragg, digital music, Entertainment/Culture, Music Platform Relaunch Open Source/Free Music, official web site, online music, p2p, Selling Music Online Online Music Studio, technological solution, Technology/Internet | Leave a comment

Remix Culture, Creative Commons & a Short Stories Project in Literature

Posted on September 15, 2009 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online tools, open, social media, writing | Tagged creative commons, Remix, Technology/Internet | Leave a comment

Semantic Web: Some Key Points

Posted on September 1, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, web evolution | Tagged Calais, Freebase, linked data, RDFa, Semantic search, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Twine | 2 Comments

The Open Video Alliance, Open Source Video & the Kaltura Platform

Posted on July 30, 2009 by admin

video platform video management video solutions free video player 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, community, creativity, online collaboration, online video, open, social media, video | Tagged creativity, Entertainment/Culture, online video, open source, open video, Technology/Internet | 2 Comments

Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video

Posted on July 14, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online video, social media, video, web evolution | Tagged American University, Center For Social Media, Civil law, Copyright, Copyright law, creative commons, Fair use, Law, Mashup, media literacy teachers, online video, public domain, Remixable Films, safe guard, School of Communication, Social Media Ventures Inc, Supreme Court, Technology/Internet, United States copyright law, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 4 Comments

Open Source Movies & Animations, Remixable Films & the Mash-up Culture

Posted on June 26, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online video, social media, video | 9 Comments

The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 – Video & Transcription

Posted on June 16, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in community, data portability, linked data, new business models, online video, semantic web, social media, social networking, video, web access, web evolution | Tagged .mobi, Alpha, Business/Finance, Communication, Computing, electronic devices, I.D.C. Holding a.s., internet, mobile phones, MySpace Inc., Primal Fusion, Scientific revolution, Semantic technologies, semantic web, Semantics Inc., social network applications tools, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, web services, World Wide Web | 1 Comment

Trent Reznor, Trolls & Anonymous Posts on Social Media

Posted on June 12, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: nirazilla” 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, community, creative commons, creativity, marketing, new business models, online collaboration, online music, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged Concept albums, energy, music, Nine Inch Nails, PDF, Quake, social media, social networks, Spam, The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor, Troll, Twitter Inc | 6 Comments

Real-Time Web: Filtering the Streams of Data

Posted on June 3, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: armangi 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 … Continue reading →

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Facebook Application for Choosing Your Creative Commons License

Posted on May 19, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in creative commons, creativity, online search, online tools, search engine, social media, social networking, writing | Tagged Computer law, Copyleft licensing, creative commons, Facebook, Facebook Inc, Flickr, Fred Benenson, license different media, Social information processing, social network, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 3 Comments

Freemium Music Business Models: a Case Study – Corey Smith

Posted on April 24, 2009 by admin

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. … Continue reading →