Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
A BBC report in 1967 predicting the future world of Home Computing
From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex …
ACM Ubiquity paper (2005) on the challenges of Invisible Computing
Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing by Arun Kumar Tripathi Department of Philosophy of Technololgy – Institute for Philosophy Dresden University of Technology – Germany Technology becomes …
Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC
Livia Labate has uploaded recording from the discussions in last weeks IA Summit 2006 Redux sessions. Here are a few recordings with the discussions: 1. IA Summit Redux Part 1 …
Flickr goes Gamma from an earlier Beta version
I was revisiting my Flickr account today to explore interestingness when I noticed that some of the interface had changed. It was a breath of refreshing air to see how …
Understanding current changes on the Web
Jakob Nielsen has written an informative entry to Alertbox this week titled, Reviving Advanced Hypertext, the column comments on some of the new features on the web today, including explicit …
Movement & Meaning presentation and Lavanotation introduction
My visit to Sussex University included attending the presentation of PhD student from UTS Lian Loke, titled, Movement & Meaning: A Study of iToy. The presentation was extremely interesting and …
Peter Morville 2004 IA research and literature
Peter Morville has posted a summary of his summer research findings within Information Architecture, grouping university papers, readings and journals he has found most valuable and useful. His summary includes, …
User and community driven vocabularies
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies. The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.
Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web
A copy of the Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web discusses some concerns of the Semantic Way of searching information and ontologies.
W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Edge.org has published an interesting article on the 2000 prescient paper by W. Daniel Hillis titled, “Aristotle”, in which he proposes “The Knowledge Web”. The 2000 paper, covers a similar …
Differences between vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology & meta-model
A great article which discusses and looks at the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model. Contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company, …
The Gene Ontology Consortium
The Gene Ontology (GO) project is a collaborative effort to address the need for consistent descriptions of gene products in different databases. The Gene Ontology Consortium‘s aim is to produce …
W3C OWL becomes Candidate Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have issued a Candidate Recommendation for OWL, The Web Ontology Language. OWL is a language for defining structured Web-based ontologies that enables richer integration …
The 12th International WWW Conference
There is an interesting article in Wired today on yesterday’s speech by Tim Berners-Lee at the 12th International World Wide Web Conference in Budapest, Hungary currently being held from 20-24 …
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