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 [...]
One of our tasks during SSSW was to create a video promoting the Semantic Web. The idea originated from Valentina Presutti , with the aim to show how Semantic Web can be fun, in order to spread the Seamantic Web vision among less technically informed people. A lot of great videos emerged as a part [...]
I am happy to announce that Claudia, Nela, Gregoire and I won one of the two best mini-project awards on the SSSW 2009, last week in Cercedilla near Madrid. The original idea of our tutor, Enrico Motta , was to semantically represent schedules of conferences and summer schools. Following our interests in the Social Web [...]
Next week I will be attending the Summer School of Semantic Web, and there I will present a new poster about my current work on Online Presence, more precisely – Faceted Online Presence. You might get some insights into what I am up to, from the poster itself, and I hope to be able to [...]
On the Social Web people expose the nature of their presence to different observers, to different groups of people with whom they are connected in different ways (for instance: co-workers, childhood friends, rugby partners, etc.). However, most often there is only a possibility to share one face with everybody and have the same online status [...]
The funny thing with dreams is that when they come true, you are usually unprepared. You nourish your dream; you do all you can for it to grow and someday become a reality, but when reality strikes; when your dream gets out of your hands, you are somehow left alone, without a dream in your [...]