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Entries from July 2007

Semantic Desktop a Step in the Right Direction

July 13th, 2007 · No Comments

The upcoming release of NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) for the KDE Linux desktop will help users organize the masses of information stored on their hard drives and perform intelligent, semantic searches. From the article:
“For example, a Semantic Desktop will store the relationship between a file saved on the […]

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ESP Game

July 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Here is the reference (warning: addictive!) to the Human Intelligence Task game that I mentioned in an earlier post.
Apologies to Luis von Ahn, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University for the delayed reference.
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Weight of the Internet

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I love this article which makes an attempt to analyze the weight of all of the information contained on the Internet at any given point in time. This is a link to another similar article.
This kind of analysis intrigues me. What I would like to see, and maybe, if I find the time, will do […]

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Are semantics the key to reputation?

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

The emerging ideas that (ugh) “Web 3.0″ is going to materialize into the true Berners-Lee vision of a semantic, intelligent web is both an incredibly promising and partially terrifying prospect
Even the most advanced computer science has yet to truly master the simplest of human performed tasks. Thus the existence of Amazon’s, IMHO ridiculous, Mechanical […]

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