Tag Archives: Computing

Semantic Web: Video Interviews

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

A story about the Semantic Web:

Posted in browser, linked data, online search, online video, semantic web, Uncategorized, video, web evolution | Tagged Abraham Bernstein, Alon Halevy, Alon Y. Halevy, British people, Chris Dixon, Clay Shirky, Computing, David Karger, David Weinberger, Entertainment/Culture, Jason Shellen, John Hebeler, Kate Ray, Lee Feigenbaum, New encyclopedism, Nova Spivack, NYU, semantic web, semantic web service, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Search Engine, web searches, Weinberger, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium | Leave a comment

Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin

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…

Posted in data portability, linked data, online tools, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged Computing, FOAF, HTML, Ontology, RDF, Resource Description Framework, RSS, search engine, Semantic publishing, Semantic search, Semantic technology, semantic web, SWSE Official, Technology/Internet, Web Search Engine, World Wide Web | 1 Comment

Digital Rights: the “Teaching Copyright” Project by the EFF for Students & Educators

Posted on June 19, 2009 by admin

Innovation is often killed by misconceptions and misinformation about what copyrights and download actually are. Creativity is bound and discouraged when you are just repeatedly told the things you can’t do – instead of being educated in what you can … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, p2p | Tagged Business/Finance, Civil law, Computing, Copyright, Copyright law, Corey Smith Open Source/Free Music, creative commons, Data management, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Entertainment/Culture, Fair use, File sharing, Intellectual property law, Law, Monopoly, public domain, Selling Music Online Knowledge Sharing & Collective Intelligence, social media, Technology/Internet, United States copyright law | 2 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

Semantic Web: Common Tag Announced as a New Format for Development

Posted on June 13, 2009 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, linked data, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged AdaptiveBlue, Calais, Computing, Derimod Konfeksiyon Ayakkabi Deri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Faviki, Freebase, Information, Knowledge representation, Metadata, Official, search engine, semantic web, Tag, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, Web contents, web services, World Wide Web, Yahoo! Inc., Zemanta, Zemanta d.o.o. | 2 Comments

Semantic Web: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes

Posted on March 4, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in online search, online video, search engine, semantic web, social media, video | Tagged Amazon Inc., Computing, Davos, destination site, Emily, Facebook Inc, Google Inc., HTML, huge destination site, linked data, RDF, search look, Semantic publishing, semantic web, Semantic Web Stack, semantic web world, social network, social networks, Technology/Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, Tom Llube, World Wide Web | 10 Comments

Web Access: Herdict & the OpenNet Initiative

Posted on February 27, 2009 by admin

Herdict is a tool that seeks to provide insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility. By crowdsourcing data from individuals around the world, it allows you to see what is inaccessible, where and … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, community, digital divide, network neutrality, online tools, web access, web evolution | Tagged Computer network security, Computing, Content-control software, Crowdsourcing, free software, internet, Internet censorship, Internet filtering, Mozilla Firefox, network neutrality, online communities, open net, OpenNet Initiative, Privacy, Technology/Internet, web access, web accessibility, Yvette Wohn | 2 Comments

Web Evolution: a Short Presentation Without Words

Posted on February 16, 2009 by admin

The site’s name is NotinWords, and the idea is simple and clear: short animated cartoons with a popular content and an enjoyable style, about various topics, without written or spoken language appearing in the video. The video presented here explains … Continue reading →

Posted in art, creativity, online video, social media, social networking, video, web evolution | Tagged artist, Blog, Computing, internet evolution, online video, Social information processing, social media, social networks, Technology, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, web evolution, World Wide Web | Leave a comment

Discovery Search Engine For Browsers: Juice

Posted on February 9, 2009 by admin

Juice is a plug-in for Firefox browsers, which lets you grab text, image or video, providing you with context-relevant information, aiming to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services. You … Continue reading →

Posted in browser, online search, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged browser, Computing, Mashup, online search, plug-in, semantic web, Software architecture, Software engineering, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, web development, web services, World Wide Web | 5 Comments

Semantic Blogging & Linked Data: Calais 4.0 Released

Posted on January 15, 2009 by admin

Calais 4.0 is the latest version of the semantic web service and open Api launched a year ago. It enables publishers to add semantic layers to their blogging content – categorizing people, places, events and so on. It also enables … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, linked data, semantic web, social media, social networking, web evolution, writing | Tagged Api, blogging, British people, Calais, Computing, Entertainment/Culture, Internet Movie Database, linked data, Lotte Shopping Co. Ltd., Natural language processing, ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus, semantic web, semantic web service, semantics, Technology/Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, Web 2.0, web services, WordPress, World Wide Web | 7 Comments

Internet History & Evolution: a Video Explanation

Posted on January 7, 2009 by admin

“History of the internet” is an well-done, interesting animated documentary about history & evolution of the web, explaining the concepts & the basics of time-sharing, file-sharing, arpanet and Internet. The video uses a new type of info-graphic called PICOL icons, … Continue reading →

Posted in community, creativity, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged ARPANET, Communication, Computer graphics, Computing, Entertainment/Culture, File sharing, Graphics, history, internet, Mass media, Technology/Internet, Telecommunication, video, web evolution | 5 Comments

Network Neutrality, Google & the OpenEdge Project

Posted on December 16, 2008 by admin

Despite having recently been among the major advocates of equal network access for all content providers, according to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal Google is now working on a project that goes all the way in the opposite … Continue reading →

Posted in community, digital divide, network neutrality, social media, video, web access, web evolution | Tagged Christopher Rhoads, Computer law, Computing, digital divide, Federal Communications Commission, free Web Evolution, google, Google Inc., internet, Internet access, internet providers, less efficient online resources, less neutral Web, Mass media, network neutrality, OpenEdge Project, social media, social network, Technology/Internet, telecommunications industry, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Online, Vishesh Kumar, web evolution | 5 Comments

Network Neutrality, Web Access & the Public Knowledge Project

Posted on December 14, 2008 by admin

What does Network Neutrality actually mean? Basically, that the provider that lets you connect to the Web should not play a role in accessing contents on the Internet, it should not discriminate the sources or play favorites. Everyone has to … Continue reading →

Posted in community, digital divide, network neutrality, social media, social networking, web access, web evolution | Tagged AT&T Corp., Broadband, Comcast, Comcast Corporation, Communication, Computer law, Computing, digital divide, internet, Internet access, Internet Open Internet Coalition Public Knowledge, Internet phone services, internet providers, media policies, network neutrality, particular hardware, search engines, social media, social networks, streaming video, Technology/Internet, Telecommunications, Tim Berners-Lee, Time Warner Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Voice over Internet Protocol, web access, web evolution | 4 Comments

Using reCaptcha & Digitizing Old Texts & Radio Shows

Posted on December 9, 2008 by admin

The reCaptcha service combines the anti-spam functions of a normal Captcha system with a very interesting project, which aims to digitize the contents of old books & newspapers and also of past radio shows, thanks to the human interaction in … Continue reading →