Image via Wikipedia The community of people using foursquare is growing rapidly and nowhere is this more readily apparent than right here in our lovely Slovenia. Back when I first started using foursquare for some strange reason (I honestly don’t know) pretty much everywhere you went you were forced to first add the location. Then [...]
This entry was written by , posted on July 6, 2010 at 2:26 pm, filed under Real-Time web, The Web and tagged Foursquare, Slovenia.
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Image by xioubin low via Flickr Remember the days when the modern internet was new and everyone and their dog had a blog they were writing several times a week, if not every day? Around 2004 blogs suddenly became incredibly mainstream due to their involvement in several political events and some other shady things that [...]
This entry was written by , posted on May 25, 2010 at 10:56 am, filed under Real-Time web and tagged Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Web Rings and Cliques, Writing.
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Image via Wikipedia When we first started the Preona project one of our most important assumptions was that actively liking things is very cumbersome and few people will want to do it in order to personalise the reading suggestion system. What we wanted to build was a system that could automagically learn from what the [...]
This entry was written by , posted on May 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm, filed under Real-Time web, Synaptic web, The Web and tagged Application programming interface, Artificial intelligence, Google, Machine learning, Recommender system.
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Lately facebook has been taking a lot of flak over user privacy regarding the changes they’ve implemented to their API and how easy it is for 3rd parties to access user’s private data … or more to the point, how much pain users have to go through to hide their personal data. My personal opinion [...]
This entry was written by , posted on May 10, 2010 at 4:03 pm, filed under The Web and tagged Facebook, Flickr, Google, Online Communities, Privacy, Security, Social network.
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Sometimes when I have tasks to organise in my head I waste time online. Menial tasks occupy the higher brain and … boring neuroscience, you don’t want to hear. Image via Wikipedia So I came upon a very awesome webcomic called Geek’n’poke, read a few issues and decided to bookmark it for later consumption. In [...]
This entry was written by , posted on March 31, 2010 at 12:41 am, filed under Information overload and tagged Big Brother, Clients, feedreader, Google Reader, Meme, RSS, Webcomic, WWW.
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Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I read an interesting post about the speed at which information travels between two nodes in a network. It was about a so called Data Singularity and the basic premise was that nowadays information flows are so horribly fast that only computers talking to computers can handle the stream at all [...]
This entry was written by , posted on March 9, 2010 at 9:00 am, filed under Information overload, Real-Time web and tagged Clients, Facebook, Feed Readers, Google, Pubsubhubbub, RSS, Syndication and Feeds, WWW.
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Perhaps I’m a bit crazy to name this creation a synaptic autocomplete, in reality it’s more of a real-time reinforcement learning autocomplete, but that just doesn’t quite have the same zing to it if you catch my drift. So let’s stick with synaptic because it fulfills the most basic of requirements – implicit real-time connections. [...]
This entry was written by , posted on January 19, 2010 at 10:20 am, filed under Cool Tools, Synaptic web and tagged Add new tag, Application programming interface, Business, Delicious, googlewave, Operating Systems, Real-time computing, Realtime, Tools, Twitter.
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Image via Wikipedia Yesterday someone asked me a surprising question: How do you define real-time? Perhaps more surprising is that I had no idea how to answer it! Uhm, ah, eeeh, hmmm … fuck, what IS real-time? And it got me thinking. Well, ok, in real life we define real-time as the instant reaction from [...]
This entry was written by , posted on January 13, 2010 at 9:33 am, filed under Real-Time web and tagged Business, Data, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Peer-to-peer, Real-time computing, Technology, Web Browser, Website.
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Image by *iFatma via Flickr Word on the street has it that semantic has become a curseword and people should avoid using it at all cost, especially in relation to any sort of internet business or technology. Hearing about this led me to wondering about why and how it was that the semantic web failed [...]
This entry was written by , posted on January 4, 2010 at 9:27 am, filed under synaptic web and tagged Google, History, Search Engines, Searching, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Zemanta.
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Image via Wikipedia Just as the foundation of modern RISC computers was a set of basic design and performance requirements put forth in the mid 1970′s, so too there are a few basic requirements for a synaptic web application. Paraphrased and somewhat shortened from synapticweb.org they are: They connect two or more categories of things [...]
This entry was written by , posted on December 29, 2009 at 10:21 am, filed under Algorithms, synaptic web and tagged Add new tag, Application programming interface, Artificial intelligence, Google, Google Reader, Machine learning, People, Research Groups, Web application.
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