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Many words have been written already about the data. Data is everywhere. Data is the next big thing. Data is the value on the World Wide Web. In this post I investigate how data contributes to the process of generating value on the Web, and how it is the crucial component of this process. The [...]
Following became quite popular nowadays. It seems we are not so shy to follow any more. It is actually our following of people that makes them pop up, and shine in their relevance. Of course, I play here with multiple senses of the word “follow”. The video below explores the importance of following in the [...]
How many times have you faced another reality? I am talking about a feeling when you encounter a person, an event, a fact that has existed for ages in parallel with you, but you were totally unaware of it. It happens to me from time to time, to encounter someone who lives under totally different [...]
After a certain stage in their life-cycle, companies get so big that they turn into big closed worlds. I know such companies, where conditions of entry in the corporate buildings are more severe than on the borders between countries. You need to be announced and registered in the security system 15 days before, you must [...]
Dear fellow researchers, Semantic Web enthusiasts, citizens of the Web, it is my pleasure to invite you to the second VoCamp in France, and the first ever in Paris which will take place on 13th and 14th May. The VoCamp is generously sponsored by Hypios.com – a young and innovative company that runs a marketplace [...]
I was surprised recently, to see the Google Chrome ads appeared in the Paris Metro. For me it was a sign that Google, the king of the virtual, has come down to the physical world. Does Google want to become tangible, and physical? To rule the physical world as well? At the same time, I [...]
It just occurred to me how different activities on Social Networks can reveal the data that is protected by the privacy policy. For example I tend to keep my birthday private, but still the birthday wishes on my wall reveal the exact data of my birthday to all of those that I tried to hide [...]
As a part of my research at Hypios and LaLIC (Sorbonne), I investigate all the sources where we can find evidence of users’ competence. The Linked Data Cloud is full of data, and connections between datasets, but if I wanted to find the experts for a particular topic, I wouldn’t know where to start my [...]
In the most recent Hypios blog article, “Is Twitter an Ponzi Scheme?” Jérémie talks about the Twitter life-cycle saying that users first get involved as listeners and recipients of content; then they start retweeting and generating content, and finally they get to follow so many people that they cannot really follow what’s going on and [...]
