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Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On - by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle

Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On - by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle
Five years ago, we launched a conference based on a simple idea, and that idea grew into a movement. The original Web 2.0 Conference (now the Web 2.0 Summit ) was designed to restore confidence in an industry that had lost its way after the dotcom bust. The Web was far from done, we argued. In fact, it was on its way to becoming a robust platform for a culture-changing generation of computer applications and services. In our first program, we asked why some companies survived the dotcom bust, while others had failed so miserably. We also studied a burgeoning group of startups and asked why they were growing so quickly. Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.

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SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData - W3C Wiki News 2014-12-03: The 8th edition of the Linked Data on the Web workshop will take place at WWW2015 in Florence, Italy. The paper submission deadline for the workshop is 15 March, 2015. 2014-09-10: An updated version of the LOD Cloud diagram has been published. The new version contains 570 linked datasets which are connected by 2909 linksets. New statistics about the adoption of the Linked Data best practices are found in an updated version of the State of the LOD Cloud document. 2014-04-26: The 7th edition of the Linked Data on the Web workshop took place at WWW2014 in Seoul, Korea.

What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. 5 Questions a Social Media Consultant Should Ask a Client When consulting on a company's Social Media presence, we must first ask some questions of the company itself. Here are the 5 most important questions a Social Media Consultant should ask a client to deliver the best possible service. 1. What does the company want to achieve from their Social Media activity?

Your Social Media Success Toolkit: 10 Must-Have Resources A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. ~Robert Hughes Hughes is right on the money. Next generation catalogues: Who owns your data? « The Cataloguing Librarian In a world where information flows freely and we’re slowly shedding the limitations of our existing ILSs, it’s easy to take for granted that the statistics and data on which many of our services rely upon is ours. We can run reports on it, use it to justify new programs and services, observe trends and justify (or not justify) the existence of extra staff, resources or departments. Statistics are important and, the longer I work as a cataloguer, the more it’s reinforced. As a result, I’ve become a “data girl”.

Data: Composition of a Corporate Social Media Team How are today’s social media teams structured? Ever wonder who’s behind those corporate Twitter and Facebook accounts? Think there’s more to it than an intern just tweeting haphazardly? Publications scientifiques All publications from Proxem are available on HAL by Inria, the French open-access repository for scientific publishing. Une approche paresseuse de l’analyse sémantique ou comment construire une interface syntaxe-sémantique à partir d’exemples TALN 2010, MontréalThis article shows how to extract a syntax-semantics interface starting from an interchangeable dependency parser, many lexical resources and from samples associated with the semantic representations which one wishes to compute. Our semantic representations are hierarchical graphs of predicate-argument relations between lexical meanings and our syntax-semantics interface is a polarized unification grammar. We show in particular how to obtain a very modular system by computing some rules by “subtraction” of less modular rules. Extraction d’informations multilingues utilisant des paraphrases

Spend Wisely. Finally, an Investment Roadmap for Social Business Buyers (Altimeter Report) Like all other Investing, Invest in Social Business based on Market Research. Just as you would invest in your personal finances based on your family size, age, and market conditions you should be spending in social business with the same industry knowledge. With limited budgets, the corporate Social Strategist (read report) faces a spending dilemma. In 2010, the average annual social business budget at enterprise-class corporations was a mere $833,000. Now, Altimeter Group is publishing spending and deal size averages based on social business maturity for corporations to finally benchmark and cross-check their own spending efforts. Follow These Three Steps:Take the Quiz: Identify how mature your company is in social business (it’s in the full report, or see the single pager)Adjust investments: Cross match how others are spending in your same maturity level, as well as the next phase in maturity for your program forecast.Share report widely with vendors, agencies, and internal staff.

Dot products Next: Queries as vectors Up: The vector space model Previous: The vector space model Contents Index We denote by the vector derived from document , with one component in the vector for each dictionary term. Unless otherwise specified, the reader may assume that the components are computed using the tf-idf weighting scheme, although the particular weighting scheme is immaterial to the discussion that follows. The set of documents in a collection then may be viewed as a set of vectors in a vector space, in which there is one axis for each term. This representation loses the relative ordering of the terms in each document; recall our example from Section 6.2 (page

Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation - Valenzuela - 2009 - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Abstract This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals' social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students' life satisfaction, social trust, civic engagement, and political participation. While these findings should ease the concerns of those who fear that Facebook has mostly negative effects on young adults, the positive and significant associations between Facebook variables and social capital were small, suggesting that online social networks are not the most effective solution for youth disengagement from civic duty and democracy. Moral panic is a common reaction to new forms of communication (Chalaby, 2000; Winston, 1986). The advent of television spawned fears of mass escapism (Klapper, 1960; Pearlin, 1959).

Tf-Idf and Cosine similarity In the year 1998 Google handled 9800 average search queries every day. In 2012 this number shot up to 5.13 billion average searches per day. The graph given below shows this astronomical growth. The major reason for google’s success is because of its pageRank algorithm. PageRank determines how trustworthy and reputable a given website is. But there is also another part. Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love The essence of affection. The cuddle chemical. In other words, oxytocin.This hormone, produced daily by your brain and mine, is the reason I'm on my back, trying to remain perfectly still inside a magnetic-resonance-imaging machine secreted in the basement of a cheerless building at the California Institute of Technology. Even though I am cocooned by earplugs and noise-cancellation headphones, it's freakishly loud in here, a mix of jackhammer pulses and a hurricane whoosh of air. In other words, it's your typical MRI experience -- save for the Apple laptop bolted a couple of feet above my head, the mouse on my chest, and the unbearably sad video playing on the MacBook screen.

MAMA - Dev.Opera By Brian Wilson MAMA: What is the Web made of? The Web has search engines—many of them. However, they are typically concerned only with the text content of a Web page. What about a search engine for a Web page's structure? Say you want to find a sampling of Web pages that have more than 100 hyperlinks or for pages that use the Font-size CSS property that also use the FONT element with a Size attribute? Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study, "Social Networking Sites and Our Lives," wasn't that 80% of Americans regularly use the Internet or that 60% of web users have a social network account--double the number in 2008, with the vast majority on Facebook (52%) and Twitter (33%). Nor is it that people have gone gaga over smartphones, with one in three Americans owning one. Rather, it's the idea that the Internet, in particular social networks, engender trust, and the more time you spend on them the more trusting you become. As the report put it, "The typical Internet user is more than twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted," with regular Facebook users the most trusting of all. "A Facebook user who uses the site multiple times per day is 43% more likely than other Internet users and more than three times as likely as non-Internet users to feel that most people can be trusted." There's a good reason for this.

Hey bicus, marrant de te croiser là, j'avais lu pleins d'extrait de cet article mais jamais la version longue. Je pensais que c'était 100% bullshit et en fait c'est pas mal du tout ! :) by nicolas Oct 19

3 things I don't like in this article. 1) Sensors are more buzz than short or middle term trends. 2) The real-time is not new and it won't change anything of the web shape. 3) As usual IA seams sweet but is still a sweet dream. by nicolas Oct 19

Data analysis, visualization, and other techniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be an increasingly valuable skillset. Employers take notice. by nicolas Oct 19

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