Tag Archives: social network

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

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

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

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

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 →

Posted in community, creativity, online collaboration, online tools, social media, web evolution | Tagged Anti-spam, captcha, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer security, Computing, creativity, Crowdsourcing, digitize, E-mail spam, Human-based computation, Internet Archive, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, projects, ReCAPTCHA, resources, social network, Spam, Technology/Internet, the New York Times, The New York Times Co, tools, web development, World Wide Web | Leave a comment

Social Network & Polarity of Ideological Trends in Krebs Critical Point of View

Posted on November 20, 2008 by admin

Valdis Krebs, founder of Orgnet.com, recently expressed his critical point of view on today social network and their responsability into the process of omologation and polarization of ideologies. The basic idea is that social network like Facebook show a tendency … Continue reading →