Google to launch Chrome Web browser Tue Sept 2 (1)
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Updated below: (a). Google has announced that they will launch a new Web browser, built partly from scratch and partly form other open source projects. The Google Chrome browser uses the WebKit open source rendering engine and an open sourced Javascript virtual machine named V8. “On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important ...
Scientific American special issue: will technology kill privacy? (3)
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The September 2008 Scientific American is a special issue on The Future of Privacy. The issue has a good range or articles that all look like they are well worth reading and touch on all of the theme in our new MURI project on assured information sharing. Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror. Peter Brown. Introduction to SciAm’s issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since 9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting ...
UMBEL as a Coherent Framework to Support Ontology Development (2)
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There are multiple ways to represent the World we live in. Someone will think about something in a way, where someone else next to him will think about the same thing in another way. They will think about it in different ways: different characteristics, different ways to interact with it, different ways to use it, different ways to think about its composition, its relations with other things, and so on. What is nice is that ...
Mozilla Ubiquity: dite la vostra! (2)
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Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. You’re used to telling Firefox where you want to go by typing Web addresses into the URL bar: With Ubiquity installed, you’ll be able to tell Firefox what you want it to do by typing commands into a new Ubiquity input box. Che vi sembra? .) Accetto suggerimenti, ma ...
Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP frameworks? Think again. (5)
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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back — Rasmus doesn’t hold back. Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues as a core developer to the PHP project. PHP frameworks In his address he choose to highlight PHP frameworks (Drupal was ...
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Awesome! PHP Frameworks are bad for the environment! Go Rasmus!
Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP frameworks? Think again. (5)
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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back — Rasmus doesn’t hold back. Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues as a core developer to the PHP project. PHP frameworks In his address he choose to highlight PHP frameworks (Drupal was ...
Let Google Suggest Your Next Search (1)
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The semantic web grows ever nearer. Soon everything we think will be organized, categorized and analyzed by Google. Speaking of which, Google will begin to officially release Google Suggest in the next week. Google Suggest is exactly what it sounds like -- a tool that works to better understand you, as a user and what you search for. Often, due to misspellings and other limitations of our human brains, our searches can bring up results ...
Make your Data Web Friendly - W3C Q&A Weblog (2)
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A Web language is not only a markup language (be XML, SGML or binary). For example, JPEG is not a Web format, but a format used on the Web. A Web format has the capability to play into the Web, it has linking capabilities. The simple fact to be able from my Web site make a link to another Web site somewhere else on the network without having to go through a prior agreement is ...
Rendi i tuoi dati Web compatibili: dal W3C un approccio a RDFa e agli standard (1)
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Non ho saputo non riprendere questo post del W3C, assolutamente fantastico! -> Make your Data Web Friendly La traduzione è grossolana, ma giusto per rendere l’idea, credo che basti. Il testo parla da sè, non mi sento proprio di dover aggiungere qualcosa. Io ci aggiungo i grassetti, almeno questo .) A Web language is not only a markup language (be XML, SGML or binary). For example, JPEG is not a Web format, but a format ...
Web Futures - Who Ordered the Pragmatic Semantic Orgamism with Fries? ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes (3)
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Andy Powell disagrees with my explanation of why we will complain about the Semantic Web. "Success or failure of the Semantic Web does not rest with context - there is plenty of semantic work in that area it seems to me, typically referred to as the graph or the social graph." Ah, but no. The 'social graph' is not context - it's just another layer of semantics. In pragmatics, meaning varies with use - the ...
Building A Semantic Web: Interview with Benjamin Nowack (2)
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Last month when we released the CrunchBase API, Benjamin Nowack came to our attention when he developed Semantic CrunchBase, a RDF/SPARQL interface to CrunchBase. Since then he has remained an active user of the CrunchBase API and last week released a Twitter bot that responds to commands with CrunchBase info. Nowack runs a small Web agency that focuses on combining mainstream website creation with Semantic Web technologies. In addition, he works as a contractor for ...
RSS Week in Review (2)
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While developing products people are after simplicity but is simplicity overrated?JOVE reaches a milestone by being indexed by PUBMED and MedLine. Congratulations to JOVE team and our own Tyge Burgess for creating short video abstracts in YouTube for Journal of Number Theory. Opening-up is good for science and product development. Here is how friendfeed science community is responding Connotea's call of figuring out a freemium service and how Yahoo Search is integrated in iphone . ...
Location-based services now hotter than hot? : Local Search Optimization (1)
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Location-based services are hot. Now hotter than before. Because Google just launched their Geolocation API. This is what you can call the pre-web3.0 era. Small startups trying to provide even the smallest semantic web like services online. Providing location-based services, opening up their programming code, Developing APIs for the developers to use and create even greater software by mashing up code of several services. Now with Google opening up their geolocation API it opens new ...
Database researchers identify hot research topics (3)
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Databases are a fundamental technology for most information systems and especially those based on the web. A group of senior database researchers met recently to assess the state of database research, as documented in site. So, where did the Semantic Web fit into their vision? "In late May, ...
SemanticBible Linked Data: Version Alpha1 (1)
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SemanticBible Linked Data: Version Alpha 1 I am very very pleased to announce something which I have been working on for a while which is the transformation of SemanticBible into Linked Data. Please be aware that this a very early version at the moment, and so if you see it break when you are looking around then I’m probably improving and enhancing it. More information (and recent update information) is available on the Linked Data ...
Semantic Development Environments (2)
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The semantic web is a GOOD THING by definition - anything that enables us to create smarter software without also having to create Byzantine application software must be a step in the right direction. The problem is - many people have trouble translating the generic term “smarter” into a concrete idea of what they would have to do to achieve that palladian dream. I think a few concrete ideas might help to firm up people’s ...
The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5 (2)
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GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to standardize the connection between tag soup and XPath. The tidy use case for GRDDL anticipates that using HTML 5 concrete syntax rather than XHTML 1.x concrete syntax involves no changes at the XPath level.But in ...
Can range voting save us from politicians? (1)
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The short article Scoring the Candidates in the current Technology Review introduces the concept of range voting and argues that it would prevent third-party spoilers in elections as well as give voters more say, Arrow’s impossibility theorem notwithstanding. Heaven knows we need *something* to save us from modern political life, a least in the USA. The article describes ongoing research by our UMBC colleagues Alan Sherman and Rick Carback along with Warren Smith on voting ...
Cyberinfrastructure for biological sciences (1)
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This paper takes a more semantic web and forward looking view than recent cyberinfrastructure articles:Stein, L. D. (2008).Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biologicalsciences: progress, visions and challenges Nat Rev Genet, 9(9), 678-688. DOI: 10.1038/nrg2414Things like Semantic Web Pipes - missing from the article - can be found on the wiki page for the article (Thanks Matthias Samwald).Related recent articles:Goble, C., Stevens, R. (2008). State of the nation in data integration for bioinformatics. Journal of Biomedical ...
How Will the Semantic Web “Think”? (6)
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Bill Erickson sent me Kevin Kelly’s TED talk “Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Web”. Kelly discusses the semantic web, which uses relational data to make associations between site to site, profile to profile. The idea of a converging, thinking web is a fascinating concept. Kelly calls this thinking web “more reliable than its parts”. He goes so far as to calls the thinking web “The One”. I am not afraid of the semantic ...
