January 2008
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Intranet 2.0 - Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate intranet » SlideShare
Great presentation
(tags: slides, slideshare, enterprise2.0, web2.0)
Wikis in Enterprises: What are Wikis?
Very interesting survey about acceptation of wikis in enterprises
(tags: survey, Wiki, enterprise2.0, sonet)
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Intranet 2.0 - Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate intranet » SlideShare
Great presentation
(tags: slides, slideshare, enterprise2.0, web2.0)
Wikis in Enterprises: What are Wikis?
Very interesting survey about acceptation of wikis in enterprises
(tags: survey, Wiki, enterprise2.0, sonet)
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Intranet 2.0 - Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate intranet » SlideShare
Great presentation
(tags: slides, slideshare, enterprise2.0, web2.0)
Wikis in Enterprises: What are Wikis?
Very interesting survey about acceptation of wikis in enterprises
(tags: survey, Wiki, enterprise2.0, sonet)
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Intranet 2.0 - Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate intranet » SlideShare
Great presentation
(tags: slides, slideshare, enterprise2.0, web2.0)
Wikis in Enterprises: What are Wikis?
Very interesting survey about acceptation of wikis in enterprises
(tags: survey, Wiki, enterprise2.0, sonet)
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The power of recommendation →
I went to Amazon during lunch to buy a book recommended by Tim Spaulding over at the LibaryThing Thingology blog:
While I was there I noticed Amazon recommending this book:
which I couldn’t resist. When I added it to my cart, I was also offered this recommenation:
which again, I couldn’t resist. Amazon then suggested this book:
I really like some of the things that...
Music Research Blogs →
There are a growing number of MIR researchers that are blogging their research. These blogs are great ways for us to peek inside a researcher’s working journal (and perhaps even give them some feedback). It does get hard to keep track of all of these research blogs, so I decided I would try to make a list. I’m absolutely sure that this list is woefully incomplete, so if you know of...
Music and Personality →
If you are an intense person, will you like intense music or quiet, chill-out music? Is music used to moderate your emotions or to amplify them? How are music taste and personality are related? Researcher Greg Dunn is conducting an experiment to answer these questions - to learn better how music taste and personality are related - his ultimate goal is to build an adaptive music player that is...
The DataPortability Report #1 - 30th Jan 08 →
Today sees the release of the first monthly DataPortability Report. The report is collated by the DataPortability Evangelism Action Group based on feedback and actions from the DataPortability Action Groups and any and all groups engaged in solving the Data Portability problem - particularly standards groups. The goal of the group is to highlight gains made for the cause, and spotlight failures or...
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Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? - ReadWriteWeb
(tags: xmpp, jabber, decentralized)
Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
What is XMPP, why it is not so used now, why it will be more used in future
(tags: xmpp, jabber, for:napolnx, decentralized, distributed)
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Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? - ReadWriteWeb
(tags: xmpp, jabber, decentralized)
Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
What is XMPP, why it is not so used now, why it will be more used in future
(tags: xmpp, jabber, for:napolnx, decentralized, distributed)
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Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? - ReadWriteWeb
(tags: xmpp, jabber, decentralized)
Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
What is XMPP, why it is not so used now, why it will be more used in future
(tags: xmpp, jabber, for:napolnx, decentralized, distributed)
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Introducing Group Mix →
With the demise of WebJay and MusicMobs - we’ve been without a good playlist sharing site. And with some excellent playlist sharing opportunities with sites like Spotify, it seems that the time for playlist sharing is now. To remedy this situation until a full-fledged playlist sharing site emerges, I’ve created a little Wiki for sharing playlists. The model couldn’t be...
Chaining CAPTCHAs for fun and profit? →
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether a user is human. Yahoo! is having major difficulties with its CAPTCHAs. Russian hackers are able to pass their Turing tests with 35% accuracy. Some human beings say that their accuracy is 80% on these same tests.
This accuracy is not an historical breakthrough since academics got almost perfect scores on earlier...
Joe McCarthy joins MyStrands as Principal... →
We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Joseph McCarthy, former Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, has joined MyStrands as Principal Instigator.
As computing technologies move beyond the desktop and into the other spaces that we inhabit, new possibilities are emerging for tools that can help us connect with the kindred spirits around us, says Joe. He thinks we all could...
From e-democracy to Google-democracy? →
Maybe you have seen the announcement of the new bigG service: Google Health (see Blogoscoped).
I guess you have heard in the past years many times the “new” (?) terms, right? E-voting, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-democracy, e-identity, e-business, e-participation, e-environment, e-weather (if you have heard more, please suggest it in a comment). Just prefix “e-” in front of any...
From e-democracy to Google-democracy? →
Maybe you have seen the announcement of the new bigG service: Google Health (see Blogoscoped).
I guess you have heard in the past years many times the “new” (?) terms, right? E-voting, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-democracy, e-identity, e-business, e-participation, e-environment, e-weather (if you have heard more, please suggest it in a comment). Just prefix “e-” in front of any...
Links for 2008 01 30 →
Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? - ReadWriteWeb
(tags: xmpp, jabber, decentralized)
Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
What is XMPP, why it is not so used now, why it will be more used in future
(tags: xmpp, jabber, for:napolnx, decentralized, distributed)
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Making money from money: is this a needed feature... →
Ripple is an attempt to (re)design society: our interactions will no more based on the fact we all agree money (generated by banks and governments) exist but on how much we trust other people. Each participant indicates which other participants he or she trusts, by offering to accept their IOUs up to a certain amount, like a line of credit: your peers become the generators of currency. In short,...
Making money from money: is this a needed feature... →
Ripple is an attempt to (re)design society: our interactions will no more based on the fact we all agree money (generated by banks and governments) exist but on how much we trust other people. Each participant indicates which other participants he or she trusts, by offering to accept their IOUs up to a certain amount, like a line of credit: your peers become the generators of currency. In short,...
Collaborative Playlists →
I am lucky enough to be able to participate in the private beta of a next-generation music service called Spotify. As I described previously, Spotify is the real celestial jukebox - it has a seemingly bottomless collection of music - by every artist that I can think of (and I can think of a lot). Today, the folks at Spotify released a new feature: Collaborative Playlists. With Collaborative...
From e-democracy to Google-democracy? →
Maybe you have seen the announcement of the new bigG service: Google Health (see Blogoscoped).
I guess you have heard in the past years many times the “new” (?) terms, right? E-voting, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-democracy, e-identity, e-business, e-participation, e-environment, e-weather (if you have heard more, please suggest it in a comment). Just prefix “e-” in front of any...
From e-democracy to Google-democracy? →
Maybe you have seen the announcement of the new bigG service: Google Health (see Blogoscoped).
I guess you have heard in the past years many times the “new” (?) terms, right? E-voting, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-democracy, e-identity, e-business, e-participation, e-environment, e-weather (if you have heard more, please suggest it in a comment). Just prefix “e-” in front of any...
Reinventing Sears →
Newsday’s Ellis Hennican writes today about a notion for reviving the still-and-forever-flagging Sears: turn it into an annuity membership with which you get a lifetime string of and repair of updated TVs, lawnmowers, whatever. This is not unlike Interface Inc.’s program of leasing carpeting. In essence, this is the cable-box model the old telephone model: they own the device and rent it to us. —...
Making money from money: is this a needed feature... →
Ripple is an attempt to (re)design society: our interactions will no more based on the fact we all agree money (generated by banks and governments) exist but on how much we trust other people. Each participant indicates which other participants he or she trusts, by offering to accept their IOUs up to a certain amount, like a line of credit: your peers become the generators of currency. In short,...
Making money from money: is this a needed feature... →
Ripple is an attempt to (re)design society: our interactions will no more based on the fact we all agree money (generated by banks and governments) exist but on how much we trust other people. Each participant indicates which other participants he or she trusts, by offering to accept their IOUs up to a certain amount, like a line of credit: your peers become the generators of currency. In short,...
What does the Times have against Hillary? →
I was amazed that on today’s New York Times front page, I couldn’t find a mention of Hillary Clinton’s victory in Florida — not even a reefer (jargon for a promo box), not a by-the-way paragraph inserted into the Republican story, not a news peg added into a story about 527 groups advertising on behalf of Obama (a positive story for him, nonetheless, since they say he’s working hard to repudiate...
Closed-source software is the source of... →
Geoff cites an article by Jaron Lanier arguing that closed-source software is the source of innovation, that open source software is only polishing copies. The gist of the argument is there:
Why are so many of the more sophisticated examples of code in the online world—like the page-rank algorithms in the top search engines or like Adobe’s Flash—the results of proprietary development? Why did the...
A future collector's item →
MidemNet 08 Originally uploaded by RobertAndrews.
t-shirt seen at MIDEM (thx Andreas)
OnMedia: It’s differenter than you think →
I’m at the Always-On OnMedia confab in New York (yes, another conference… life is a conference). I’ll not liveblog it; after DLD and Davos, I’m liveblogged-out. This one is focused on investment and that’s good; that is the mother’s milk of innovation. But I’m frustrated that the people on the stage — as innovative as they are — are still thinking in old media terms on the internet.
They think...
Foxytunes Planet →
Foxytunes planet is music information aggregator. FoxyTunes Planet collects information from all sorts of web sources and displays them on a single page. They scrape lots of sources including: Wikipedia, Amazon, Last.fm, flickr, LyricWiki, HypeMachine, Youtube and lots more. You can customize your layout and add/remove various sources.
Foxytunes Planet tries hard to find the right info - but...
BBC - Radio Labs - APML isn't just for humans* →
This is our new blog for BBC Radio Labs - a place where we show some of our prototypes for new sites and services. They are all at an early stage of development and some of them might not work quite right, some might look a bit sketchy and they may never be taken any further. They’re what we call Saved By: Chris Saad | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: apml, dataportability
A first draft of HTML 5… toward a new HTML? →
W3C just published today a first draft of HTML 5. HTML 5 replaces HTML 4 and XHTML 1.
They are getting rid of the “acronym” elements because it was rarely used.
The elements “canvas,” “video”, “audio” are added: the HTML becomes fully multimedia. However, MathML and SVG remain embedded content.
They added the “article,” “section,” and “figure” elements which should be useful for blogs and...
Incremental caching for web search →
Puppin et al. have a 2007 paper, “Load-Balancing and Caching for Collection Selection Architectures” (PDF) with a curious idea for optimizing large scale distributed search engines they call incremental caching. The basic concept is to do a bit of additional work each time the cache is accessed, adding the results from that additional work to the cache. In this way, cached search...
Breasts are not bad →
Yes, the country sure has fallen to hell since 2003 wouldn’t you say: naked people on the street, wild sex everywhere, young children sold into sexual slavery in once-quiet suburbs. Yes, we were corrupted as a country back then by the nanosecond flash of a breast and a butt.
Good God, I hate the FCC and its interference in speech and culture.
They’ve gone and done it again with a fine against...
The network is the bottleneck? →
There is a really nice article on StorageMojo about Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is more or less the idea that you can offload your storage and processing tasks to a very large set of computers, typically maintained by some large company (such as Amazon). The novelty is that you abstract out where the data is held and which machine does the processing — not unlike what MapReduce does.
This...
DLD08: My Guardian column →
Here’s my Guardian column about the DLD08 conference and the social theme I heard through it. The lede:
We natter on these days about how people are becoming social online. But we have always been social; the internet merely provides more ways for us to connect with each other. What’s truly new is the opportunity for companies, especially media companies, to be social. I spent much of last week...
Davos08: Me and my DNA →
23andMe, the DNA company, offered free tests to 1,000 of the Davosati, unlocking our DNA for each of us, telling us about certain genetic propensities, identifying our heritage, and opening up a new social network of the gene.
We went to a booth in the fancy party hotel and spit — and spit and spit and spit some more — into a plastic tube and created a web account. Investor Esther Dyson even...
Davos08: What happens in Davos stays in Davos? →
I continue to wonder whether off-the-record can work anymore.
At a closed Davos session, I witnessed a bizarre anti-American meltdown by a government official. It went on for sometime before I finally had it and called this person on it, saying that the rant was anti-American and that I was offended. I’m not telling you anything more — including what else I said — so as not to identify the...
Davos08: Notes →
The odd from Davos:
* The YouTube Davos Conversation Page alcove turned into the Web 2.0 newsroom. Big media were outside in a tent — a “semipermanent structure,” they call it — sitting at crowded tables. The bloggers and vloggers hung out by YouTube. This also meant that they were on the floor, in the thick of the action, and picked up more stories.
* People-watching is half the fun. One...
Davos08: The Davos Question & answers →
Here’s my answer to the Davos question. In a word: transparency.
The question was: What one thing do you think that companies, countries, or individual must do to make the world a better place in 2008. A few hundred left responses before Davos. More than a hundred responded at Davos. Altogether, these videos have been watched more than 350,000 times.
Yes, the question and many of the...
Davos08: The Google environment →
The other day, I live-blogged the Google Foundation conversation about its work in energy and other areas. What fascinated me was seeing a world as run by engineers. YouTube put up the full video:
The Davos toilet →
I know this is silly but I was enthralled with the Davos toilet in the Congress Center. As soon as you flush, look what happens:
Optimizing Web 2.0 applications →
Microsoft Researchers Benjamin Livshits and Emre Kiciman have the fun idea in their recent paper, “Doloto: Code Splitting for Network-Bound Web 2.0 Applications” (PDF), of automatically optimize the downloading of Javascript code for large Web 2.0 applications in a way that minimizes the delay before users can interact with the website. The basic concept is simple but clever. Look at...
Tracking call for papers… with a wiki? →
WikiCFP is a tool to track call for papers collaboratively using a wiki. The call for papers are entered in categories: you can follow only the Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or databases call for papers. You can subscribe to RSS feeds for each category.
What a good idea!
Feature Extraction as a web service - wah? →
One of the highlights of NEMISIG was the unveiling of the new EchoNest music analysis web service. You give the web service an MP3 file, and it returns a big wad of XML filled with all sorts of interesting things that can be derived from the music. For instance, if you wanted to fill out that Beats-per-minute field for each track in iTunes, you could upload your tracks to the web service and...
Davos08: Conversation v. performance →
Last night, I got to go to a cultural dinner with a dozen artists scattered around the room: pick your person, pick your medium. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma was at the table behind; Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, writer and director of the wonderful film The Life of Others to the left; theatrical artist Peter Sellaras to the rear; musician Peter Gabriel limping (on a broken foot) from over there.
I...
Davos08: David Gergen boogies →
Last night’s Google party is the party of parties in Davos — and isn’t that, itself, a commentary on its power in this world. There you have the old and powerful and the young and powerful mixing to loud music and sushi. It yields wonderful scenes like this one: long-time White House adviser David Gergen boogying:
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Davos08: Collaborative innovation →
In a session on collaborative innovation — a theme of this year’s Davos — Mark Parker of Nike tells the crowd that Nike plus — the gadget you put on your shoe to hook you into your iPod and the internet and a network of runners — has hit 40 million miles run so far. What’s coolest is that the system connects runners so they communicate and get together to organize races. The internet is all about...
Davos08: Wireless →
“If you defend the status quo when the quo has lost its status, you’re in serious difficulty,” says Sony head Howard Stringer in a panel on the future of mobile. “It’s a most exhilerating time” because it’s all up in the air. A year ago, he says, cable companies were negotiating from a position of strength. But look at their stock prices now; they reflect the walls falling around them. This has...