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The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2] It derives from W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.[3] At its core, the semantic web comprises a set of design principles,[4] collaborative working grou… Continue

A great lecture by a dying professor Randy Pausch … about the life & drams. I recommend … it’s a little bit log but very powerful! "Randy Pausch Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular… Continue

I crossed a page full off really useful info about on line advertising. Intresting reading, a must for anyone who’s in the “web business” …. Follow the link http://futureofonlineadvertising.com Continue

Sites with PR5 and Above Quick, name an online bookmark service. What comes to mind? Digg? Del.icio.us? StumbleUpon? These are some of the most commonly used services, but they're not alone. There are hundreds of places that let you save your bookmarks online. This list names 100 social bookmarking sites and includes the PageRank for the site's homepage, as well as the number of pages indexed in Google. NOTE: The PageRank and indexed links information comes from the SEO Quake add-on for Firefo… Continue

Social media giant Facebook is currently ADDING a million 25+ (non-student) adults per week to their rosters - that's 52 million new users a year... YouTube.com gets over 50 million unique visitors per month... over half a billion a year... MySpace.com sees over 49 million unique visitors each month - over 1.6 million a day... Those numbers are CRAZY! And new social sites of all kinds are popping up each day... social networks... social bookmarking pages... user generated content sites... video… Continue

Can't express how excited we are to be have reached this stage where Qik is now transitioning from an Invitation-only Alpha to Public Beta with additional features, integrations and additional handset support. Even though we are announcing public beta today, July 21 2008, from today till end f July we'll be trickling in various features. All I can say is "see what happens" these remaining days of July :) What does this mean? - No more waiting for approval: YAY!!! Users who have a suppo… Continue

The University of California Berkeley has started uploading video recordings of course lectures on to YouTube. The initial round of lectures covers 300 hours of video on subjects including Chemistry, Physics and Non-Violence, with more content to come. The move by Berkeley is claimed to be a first by some, however some of the videos have been previously available elsewhere, including iTunes and Google Video; perhaps it’s a first for YouTube. A full list of the content can be accessed here. Alt… Continue

Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks. The world’s two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, barely register in Japan. As the Google Trends for Websites chart above shows, local social network Mixi is outpacing both in Japan. On Alexa, Mixi is ranked the No. 6 most popular site in Japan, compared to No. 95 for MySpace (Facebook doesn’t eve… Continue

Article link A study by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Hitwise, which measures Web 2.0 audiences, shows that only a tiny fraction of people using social media actively participate. A miniscule 0.16 percent of visits to YouTube actually involve people putting a video up on it, according to his online surfing data. All the rest are visits by people watching the videos of that tiny fraction. On… Continue

Hi, my name is Jan Macarol and this is the first blog post I am writing in English, so I wolud like to apologize for some stupid mistakes I will definitely make in the next few lines.

The story about building a network on Ning around a topic of social communities & networks is actually quite simple. In the year 2006 I started a project… Continue