Tweet Stanford is experimenting with an interesting idea — offering some of their most popular undergraduate computer science courses online for free and simultaneously with their regular...
Tweet The Journal of Web Semantics announced two new special issues, one on semantic sensing and another on the semantic and social web. Both will be publshed in 2012 with preprints made freely...
Tweet Twitter reports that its users are sent an average of 140M tweets a day last month. That adds up to a billion a week, in round numbers. Another impressive statistic their post cites is...
Tweet ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter recently made changes in its Terms of Service. Specifically, Twitter will no longer grant any more requests for whitelisting and it would no longer allow...
Tweet The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is holding a new data challenge using a new dataset from that includes about three TB of social media data collected by...
Tweet The current (11 February 2011) issue of Science is a special issue on Dealing with Data. It includes a collection of free, online articles that “highlights both the challenges posed by the...
Tweet If you are good at solving hard problems and like to program here is something you might do over your winter break: compete in Facebook’s first annual Hackers Cup. The Hacker Cup will...
Full Title: Recorded Future analyses streaming Web data to predict the future Recorded Future is a Boston-based startup with backing from Google and In-Q-Tel uses sophisticated linguistic and...
RapLeaf knows what you did last summer. The Wall Street Journal continues its exploration of how our privacy is eroding on the Web in new article by Emily Steel — A Web Pioneer Profiles Users...
Full Title: WSJ: many Facebook apps transmit user IDs to advertising and tracking companies This Wall Street Journal article says that many of the most popular of the 550,000 Facebook apps (!)...