Apparently pipl.com relies on a certain level of meta format data to deliver wider and more comprehensive results on a person search, drawing on social networks, Facebook entries, government records and photos tagged with the name.
Apart from the obvious privacy issues and justified paranoia, it makes sense for reputation management alone, to take a look at [...]
The dueling duality between those proponents of information derived from social networking (in so-called RealTime) and those endorsing the more consistent relevance of machine-read Natural Language Processes as to which is more entitled to the wear the mantle of Web 3.0, is suddenly allot less important. The Semantic level allows content to be recognised by [...]
It was only a matter of time. In 1962, Thomas Khun’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (the work that first defined the notion of paradigms), clearly delineates the stages a scientific innovation or paradigm shift goes through. First, there is the stage of overt rejection by the scientific establishment. In the case of Semantic Search, we are [...]
It is impossible to contribute to any subject, technical, business, academic, internet or otherwise without reference to the extraordinary assumption of the White House by the honourable Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, as the newly elected President of the United States. An extraordinary event with truly amazing consequences for not just the US but [...]
We really like this cartoon by Rob Cottingham on ReadWriteWeb. We like it because it’s very funny and because it reflects the more comedic obsessions of Social Network (Soc Net) aficionados.
Apparently 600,000 individuals join Facebook everyday, which by our maths means that in 20+ years everyone on the planet will be on Facebook. Why exactly, [...]
This blast from the past is one of the more concise and lucid explanations of how semantic works: Writing Semantic Mark Up written by Joshua Porter and ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus and published 4 years ago, when the references are still to Web 2.0 and the wonders of RSS instead of the more current Web 3.0 ascription [...]
An old pal of mine is spending some soc net time (that’s SOCial NETwork to the rest of us) , debating the dichotomy between machine based or algorithmic indexing of data and the kind of human collating of data that you’d get from say, your friends recommending books, CDs or places to eat on a social [...]
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