Tweet WWW, ISWC and WebDB are the top Web conferences based on Microsoft Academic Search citation data. Last week HCI researcher Antti Oulasvirta has an interesting post on ranking HCI...
Tweet On Facebook, it’s 4.74 degrees of separation, not six, according to a new study by study by researchers at Facebook and the university of Milan. “Think back to the last time you were in...
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...
Full Title: Microdata chosen over RDFa for semantics by Google, Bing and Yahoo! Tweet Google, Bing and Yahoo! are cooperating on an approach to representing structured data in Web pages via the...
Full Title: Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges (OGK2011) Tweet The 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges (OGK2011) seeks...
Tweet Congratulations to Tom Heath and Christian Bizer on the publication of their new book, Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. It’s published by Morgan & Claypool in...
Full Title: Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December Scientific American Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses the principles underlying the Web and the need to protect them in an article...
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 (!)...
Sic transit gloria mundi. After building a huge audience, Twitter turns to ads to cash in: “In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison...
Facebook has rolled out Facebook Browser as what sounds like a simple and effective idea — recommend pages based on on a user’s country and social network. My impression is mixed, however. While...