- Linux.com :: Web 2.0 tossed aside in favor of Web3.14159265358979323846…
;-) O’Really has copyrighted the term, "Web3.14159265358979323846…," and says he will "vigorously defend our exclusive use of it in court, no matter how many rounds we have to fight with the ‘information wants to be free’ pukes who use the Web to run ro
Yearly Archives: 2008
BlogFest in Riva del Garda, 12-14 September 2008
Wow, there will be a great blogfest in Riva del Garda on 12, 13, 14 September 2008!
Since it is very close to Trento, I’ll be able to attend all of it, great!
The Web site is at Blogfest.it and I really suggest you to come to Riva del Garda (a gorgeous small city!) and keep an eye on the blogfest. There will also be also 3 simultaneous Barcamps! I’ll post more details when the date is a little bit closer.
See you in Riva in September!
Links for 2008 03 31
- Wikis Home – wikis.sun.com
An example of openess and transparency from a corporation. Sun Wiki. This is where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with each other, and with the world.
Links for 2008 03 29
Links for 2008 03 26
- JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting via chat rooms. The public health department started an electronic awareness and partner notification campaign using the same Web-based sexual network; 42% of named partners - First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users (Alertbox)
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.
Links for 2008 03 24
- OpenSpime » ETech presentation (video and slides)
David Orban’s presentation of OpenSpime at Etech (video and slides). Sterling: "These guys are a tech start-up from Torino who chose to name themselves “OpenSpime.†They’re into ubiquitous computation in the service of sustainability" - Enterprise Wikis Seen As a Way to End ‘Reply-All’ E-Mail Threads
- OpenSpime
Infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. From Italian minds! "Bruce Sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called "spime", that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and intera
My first paper published under Creative Commons!
Time ago I received the request to republish one of my paper in the book “Internet Search Engines – An Introduction“. So I took the chance to extend my paper “Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority” from 4 to 10 pages and cordially give permission to include it in the book.
The publisher is ICFAI University Press which of course is not Oxford Press; it is an publisher for Indian Universities and in fact after publishing I received few emails from Indian students.
Anyway what I’m more proud of is that I have a Creative Commons released paper published on a book! When they asked me to publish it, I put this as condition and they said “yes”. Since I tried many other times to amend the copyright form publishers ask you to sign before publication (in general it basically says “you give us all the rights”) with something a bit more liberal such as a Creative Commons license, I’m very happy about this, about the license.
The license is a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License so you can legally do whatever you want with the paper as long as you cite me and share what you produce with the same license.
Anyway in the book I’m in good company: there is also a paper by Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research “Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure” and one by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona “Pagerank Increase under Different Collusion Topologies”.
This post is also an excuse for starting my blog on Nature.
Following there is the summary of my paper as it appears on the book, but you can also download the paper from my site.
The tenth article titled “Page-reRank: Using Trusted Links to Re-rank Authority†by Paolo Massa, highlights that the present HTML linking mechanism does not allow the author of a web page to express the endorsements of its content. Consequently, algorithms like PageRank produce rankings that do not capture the different intentions of web authors. The authors explore the possibility of adding simple semantic extensions to the hyper linking mechanism, by using a large real world data set and demonstrate the different page rankings produced by considering extra semantic information in page links. The paper concludes that by adopting (programming) languages that allow authors easily encode simple semantic extensions to their hyperlinks, the web (or search) intelligence can be optimized to pull relevant pages for a given search query.
Blogging on Nature: why not?
Some months ago I was asked to open a blog on Nature. I’m in a period of small mood for blogging, so I postponed the idea of opening the blog on Nature until now.
Partially I was also wondering about some questions such as “Wow! A blog on Nature! How does it count? I’ll probably never have a paper in Nature but a blog yes. So what? How many blogs there are at the moment on Nature? A quick check says around 80. Uhm. This is not so exclusive. Will I insert it in my curriculum? Probably not. Does a blog counts as a paper? Surely not. Maybe things will be different in future? For sure, but not too different”.
Anyway, if 10 years ago somebody would have told me “one day, you will blog on Nature!”, I would have replied “No bet!” … well, actually 10 years ago the word “blog” was still to be proposed (the term “blog” was coined by Peter Merholz in April or May of 1999 according to the Blog page on Wikipedia as it is today) so maybe the reply would have been more a “I will do what?!?”.
Nevertheless, blogging on Nature is surely about new ways of doing research and of publishing your ideas so I’m in the game.
My blog on Nature is at http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/paolo-massa, the plan for now is to repost and possibly extend some posts related to trust and society I post at gnuband.org, for the future I guess we’ll see.
Links for 2008 03 20
- Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery – Google Visualization API – Google Code
For visualizing structured data, with also a set of visualization gadgets. Google wow as usual.
Links for 2008 03 22
- Wikia Open Sources Social Networking – Focused Networking Now Open to All – ReadWriteWeb
Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0. - Rethinking Recommendation Engines – ReadWriteWeb
In this post we argue that the improvement in recommendation engines is not an algorithmic problem, but rather a presentation issue. Respinning recommendations as filters and delivering them without setting high expectations is more likely to yield progre - Social Innovation Camp » Welcome
What happens when you get a bunch of software developers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? 4th April 2008 – London