The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 11th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2012. The...
Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter: “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to...
Microsoft’s Bing team announced on their blog that that the Bing search engine is “powering Yahoo!’s search results” in the US and Canada for English queries. Yahoo also has a post on their...
Analog computers were a hot idea — in the 1950s! But I find this intriguing because I’ve come around to the position that a lot of our human “intelligence” is the result of acquiring and using...
Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us...
The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective measure of its significance and impact. Researchers naturally are interested in knowing how to...
Seen on the Web: “Swoogle is an alien from outer space send out to spy on the modnation circuit. He got five faces so he can watch them from all angles without turning his head. However only his...
Washington Technology, which describes itself as “the online authority for government contractors and partners”), has an article by Carlos A. Soto on 5 technologies that will change the market....
Google Chrome has been showing me a malware warning page today as I try to visit normally trusted and benign sites. I got this one just now as I tried to got to Planet RDF. Warning: Visiting...
The W3C has published a second working draft of EmotionML, or the emotion markup language, Here’s how it’s described. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology...