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23 Jul 2008 11:31pm GMT

No much time to blog at the moment, as I'm mainly concentrated on writing my PhD thesis (and so I wish best of luck - and motivation - to the ones in the same case !) Yet, I gave a talk at a Center For Digital Music seminar last week, invited there by Yves Raimond . The goal was to showcase how the usual suspects of the Social Semantic Web (FOAF / SIOC / MOAT / LOD) can be used in the context of music-related services and can provide new ways regarding music recommendation. If you're interested in music-related computing ...

23 Jul 2008 5:49pm GMT

The SDoW deadline have been extended to the 4th of August, so that you have two additional weeks to submit your paper, demo or poster. The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media. Complete details about the workshop can be found on its website . Also note that the poster and demo submissions can be up to 3 ...

23 Jul 2008 5:06pm GMT

Several of us engineers at Twitter, Inc. are learning Scala as the language in which to develop new components for our system. From Graceless Failures: Hello World

23 Jul 2008 7:03am GMT

Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): The Death of Google's Patents US Patent Office is changing its rules to disallow patenting of processes unless they "result in a physical transformation of an article" or are "tied to a particular machine" (tags: software patents law ) Park Place An Amazon-S3 Clone in Ruby. Clones the API but stores the data on your own machine (tags: s3 ruby amazon )

22 Jul 2008 11:33pm GMT

I just noticed the "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Requirements" document from the OWL Working Group. Interestingly, while the "W" in OWL stands for "Web", I didn't see any use case from web applications in the usual sense. As the leading requirements are from the need for domain knowledge bases, I would suggest the name [...]

22 Jul 2008 9:33pm GMT

"Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas" warns Google as if ask for walking directions in Google Maps. That's always good advice I suppose. Google Maps now gives directions for getting from one place to another in three modes: by car, by public transit and by walking. After experimenting ...

22 Jul 2008 5:09pm GMT

[Standards] Google Androïd SDK not XMPP compliant ? Explanation from Google of why they dropped XMPP support in Android. Cost of session initiation is too high, bandwidth usage is too high (and compression eats more battery power), massive variety of carrier network issues. (tags: google jabber xmpp mobile )

21 Jul 2008 11:32pm GMT

How many things can go wrong on the way to the airport? Let me count the ways…

21 Jul 2008 8:03pm GMT

As Ian kindly explained a few days ago, I recently lost my wife Caroline. She didn't have much of a Web presence, but at least I can point to some of her photos and Wikipedia entry (grr, with notability under question). Many thanks to everyone who has expressed their condolences, apologies if it's a while (or even never) that I respond in person - I'm also a little overwhelmed in the usual sense right now too. I'm feeling ok, coincidentally recently began the process of stopping drinking. I do wish the uppers the doctor prescribed for now were as effective ...

21 Jul 2008 3:37pm GMT

The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) has begun the process of selecting a site for the 9th International Semantic Web Conference to be held in 2010. Since ISWC'08 will be located in Karhsruhe Germany and ISWC'09 in the DC area in the US, locations in Asia and Australia are ...

20 Jul 2008 5:08am GMT

I've written a short article on Semantic Search for the Semantic Web zone of DevX.com , a developer's site run by Jupiter Online Media, the folks behind semanticweb.com . I begin with some argumentation as to why we need semantics in search. I talk about what I see as an interesting complementarity between recent advances in automated semantic tagging of natural text and other approaches to bringing metadata to the Web (such as exposing databases and APIs as RDF). Lastly, I went into a bit of detail as to how Yahoo's SearchMonkey has been benefiting from Semantic Web technology in ...

19 Jul 2008 12:51pm GMT

Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome (tags: flickr linux gnome photography )

18 Jul 2008 11:33pm GMT

The group took the opportunity to go through several of its documents in detail over the course of the 2 days, beginning with the Grouping of Resources document. There was a fairly brief discussion about some of the features that have been removed from earlier versions: grouping by property and CIDR block, for example, and the section on redirection. The changes have come about through a series of discussions with their resolution largely driven by practicality and ensuring that POWDER processing remains manageable. One action item not yet completed is an addition to the POWDER processor section of the DR ...

18 Jul 2008 2:43pm GMT

The NYT Bits blog has a post, Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages on Wikipedia's proposed Flagged revisions/Sighted versions policy. This policy is currently being used in the German version of Wikipedia. "Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. ...

18 Jul 2008 1:08pm GMT

Writing this to remind all that the workshop deadline (July 25) is approaching fast. "The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW 2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media." It can be a good opportunity to write about connections between the Social Web and the Semantic Web, about FOAF, SIOC and other cool things. The organizers (I am among them) are looking forward to ...

17 Jul 2008 10:18pm GMT