Yearly Archives: 2004

Breakout sessions rules at FOAF workshop

In the FOAF workshop (Galway, 1-2 September 2004) (see previous entry), almost half of the time was devoted to Breakout sessions, sessions where everyone was free to propose a topic of discussion posting it on a wall and everyone was free to subscribe to any group. The rules of the breakout sessions were so cool I decided to report them verbatim below:

Principles of the Agenda Forming and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Discussion:
1. Whoever comes are the right people.
2. Whatever happens is the only right thing that could have happened.
3. Whenever it starts is the right time.
4. When it is over, it is over.

The Law of the Two Feet:
If you find yourself in a place where you are neither learning nor contributing, it is your responsability to leave and go to wherever there is greater potential for learning and contributing.

(Late) report on FOAF workshop

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The FOAF workshop in Galway was almost 20 days ago, so the following report is a little bit late. Hope it can be useful at least as an historical memory.
It was fantastic to meet in flesh many people I just learnt to appreciate through their blogs. Many of the papers were very interesting. I especially like the idea of “Semantic cookies” (you keep your profile [as FOAF file] in a cookie and, with some trick, you give access to every site to it, sites can read it and give you a personalized experience) and “Bootstrapping the FOAF-Web: An Experiment in Social Network Mining” by Peter Mika (the idea is to use Google to infer social relationships among people). And there was also my paper of course. The presentation was so and so, I think I try to put too many concepts for a 15 minutes presentation. The only stuff I liked was the subtitle I wrote at the last second on the first slide: “Moleskiing: Climbing the peaks of FOAF”.
Almost half of the workshop was devoted to very interesting Breakout sessions.
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Sunday bloody sunday sung by Bush

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The funniest thing I’ve heard in a while: Sunday Bloody Sunday (mp3) sung by George W Bush. I created a Webjay compilation with this song, the original one by U2 (for comparison) and the other songs by thepartyparty.com. I literally freezed when I started hearing “This is not a rebel song …” by the well-known scary voice.

Foaf Workshop pictures

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Right after the Foaf Workshop in Galway, I was at another one, incredibly with no internet connection. So it took me until now to upload some FOAF galway pictures. Other photos of the FOAF workshop can be found on del.icio.us tagged as foaf-galway. [In the picture above you can see MarcCanter and other guys “moving data” (as he said)]

FOAF t-shirts

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Ok, I chose my goal for next week FOAF workshop in Galway: not understanding what RDF is, not being the most FOAFed in the universe, but … coming back with a lot of t-shirts! ;-)
List of Foaf t-shirts: “1st FOAF Bingo” Jersey, simple, SWAD, TrustProject or FOAFcamp orange t–shirt.

Mozilla-based Google Browser

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Will Google develop a Google browser based on Mozilla? I hope so, everyone trusts Google and will surely download a “browser recommender by Google” (Blogger, owned by Google, already recommends Firefox). See Kottke and Anil for more info.
Anyway, do you Browse Happy? If not, it’s because you should get Mozilla Firefox; it’s even written in the stars.

I robot: Open Operating System?

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I visited the I, Robot movie site and watched the trailer. I think I’m not going to see it because I’ve read some reviews who said that the Asimov’s atmosphere is lost and this is just a classical Holliwood action movie. However, the flashy website allows you to order a “real” robot (at NS-5.com). There you find the features of your robot. The operating system? Glad you asked! It’s called Teresa 2.1.2 OS.
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Firefox Ascii Logo

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Games and Social Networks

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6th September 2004, University of Leeds, UK: Games and Social Networks: a workshop on multiplayer games promises to be interesting. Looking at the paper titles, the keywords nowadays are “mobile” and “location-based”.

OpenMedia and Galway

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[still looking for a friend(-of-a-friend)* offering me hospitality in Larnaca, Cyprus, from 25 to 29 Oct 2004.]
Marc is working on OpenMedia. The project is very interesting but what catched my eye is that in the picture explaining OpenMedia there is my picture (the one representing me on WebJay).
I’ll meet Marc at the FOAF conference in Galway, Ireland (we will have a dinner in the castle you can see in the image). I’m looking forward to meet Marc and the other people in the committee. It will be fun!