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Discover magazine has named Jon Kleinberg as one of the 20 Best Brains Under 40 for his work on HITS and social networks.

Neologism is a simple web-based RDF Schema vocabulary editor and publishing system under development at DERI. It looks like a great lightweight tool for developing Semantic Web vocabularies and publishing them on the Web following current best practices.

Please Note: This item is cross-posted from the Strutta blog (my day job). I felt that it was relevant enough to post here as well, as it documents some of the process of launching and marketing a software product, from my perspective.

After a year, Read/Write Web has revisited their review of 10 promising Semantic Web apps, producing 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later.

3scale Networks is a Barcelona-based startup that is trying to fill a critical gap in helping organizations manage web services as a business or at least in a business-like manner.

Google Maps has added street views of the greater Baltimore area. One thing I had never noticed before (I think it is new) is that if you click on the STREET VIEW button, the roads from which street view is available are marked in blue. This makes it easy to zoom out and get a sense of the coverage. See for example the street view coverage of the

I have connected with more people this week than ever before. As part of my list building efforts, which have been extremely successful, I found myself being more sociable than ever. It made me think about how the internet is so similar to the offline world.
Even though I have now connected with all 4,200 of [...]

Akshay Java will defend his dissertation, Mining Social Media Communities and Content, at 10:30am this Thursday in ITE 325. Here’s the abstract.

Mashable writer has ass handed to him by John Reese.

I enjoy Mashable for discovering new social sites and all, but this guy had it coming and John Reese puts forth an excellent, eloquent argument against the anti-marketers of the web. Read it!

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I like this image from Seth Godin’s post on The Long Tail and the Dip.

HealthMap is an interesting Web site that displays a “global disease alert map” based on information extracted from a variety of text sources on the Web, including news, WHO and NGOs. HealthMap was developed as a research project by Clark Freifeld and John Brownstein of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, part of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.

Here at Ebiquity, we’ve had a number of great grad students. One of them, Akshay Java, hacked out a search engine for twitter posts around early April last year, and named it twitterment. He blogged about it here first. He did it without the benefit of the XMPP updates, by parsing the public timeline.

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on students using BitTorrent to share scanned copies of textbooks. The article, Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers, starts off

Venture Beat reports that Microsoft will acquire Powerset for a price “rumored to be slightly more than $100 million”. Powerset has been developing a Web search system that uses natural language processing technology acquired from PARC to more fully understand user’s queries and the text of documents indexed.