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?
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.
Peter Whoriskey’s Washington Post article, Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’, describes how Pandora and other webcasters are struggling with the high per-song fees they are now required to pay.
Who is alisyn camerota and why are so many people suddenly interested in her?
Pundits often describe the Web as humanity’s giant, collective brain. So what are we thinking about today? Yesterday UMBC PhD student Akshay Java launched a new service, Wikimatix, that shows the Google’s 100 hot search terms for the past hour and tries to explain each with information extracted from Wikipedia.
Google has opened up it’s AdSense for feeds program to everyone, according to a post Google Launches AdSense for Feeds. I suppose that a significant fraction of people read blogs and other online sources through a feed reader and only infrequently visit the sites they follow. Google is in a good position to exploit this since it controls both a popular feed reader and a feed management system.
Even though it isn’t time for my Tuesday technology tip, I wanted to share this information with you. When you make a post to your blog these days, it is likely to appear in many more places than just on your blog. This is all thanks to the magic of syndication, which basically means that your [...]
David Huynh completed his PhD at MIT CSAIL last year and joined MetaWeb a few months ago, where he has been working on new and better interfaces to explore the data encoded in their Freebase system. He recently released Parallax as a prototype browsing interface for Freebase. Here is a video that shows the interface in action.
In a post about the recent cyberattack of Georgian computers from Russian sites, the shadowserver site asks, “Is it possible the same thing that happened to Estonia is happening to Georgia? To put it quite simply, the answer is yes.” They offer the following as evidence.
Using Google’s Insights for Search, Pingdom has “looked at 12 of the top social networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: Where are they the most popular?”. In their post, Social network popularity around the world, they surveyed MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Imeem and Twitter. Their technique was simple: search for MySpace and use the “regional interest” estimates. Here are some observations they made:
Wiz kid, statistics software design pro, SEO consultant with million dollar contracts, pro blogger…all at age 23. I hate this kid! Neil Patel has the resume and accomplishments of someone twice his age.
Oh what I wouldn’t give to have had THIS internet back when I was younger! In this podcast Neil discusses his rise to success, how to track every movement on your site, and seo and social marketing tactics.
All those months ago, we took some time out of our whirlwind SXSW tour to sit down and talk about experience in the Studio SX “fishbowl” set. Big thanks to Dave Olson and the crew of Raincity Studios for organizing and hosting.
Nathan Anderson is my personal go-to SEO expert. He’s one of the most prolific testers and search engine analysts online today.
Find out what he has to say about today’s search engine optimization tactics and how social media comes into play with link building and raising your rankings!
Forget becoming a Pythonista or learning how to exploit the Semantic Web in social networking applications. Learn Cobol.
From today’s New York Times (In California, Retro-Tech Complicates Budget Woes), comes this note on how to avoid being an obsolete geek: be a Cobol hacker. The context is an emergency plan that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to deploy to address a $15 billion budget deficit.
Jay Deragon is a social media expert, consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and co-author of an excellent book entitled “The Emergence of The Relationship Economy.”
Forward by Doc Searls, Co-Author of “The Cluetrain Manifesto.”
Stay alert, I’m going to show you how get his book for free below!
I’ve been meaning to throw some love at “TheNanny612″ (Shana Albert) for awhile now and she’s just given me an excuse I can’t ignore.
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Technorati