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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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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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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