In the NoTube project, we are exploring the use of Semantic Web technology in Television and Web-TV scenarios. By making use of richer and linked descriptions of content and users, we hope to help users better find (and annotate, tag, cross-link etc.) content that is interesting to them. The growing amount of linked RDF data [...]
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Linked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter
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YouAndYouAndYouTube: Viacom, Privacy and the Social Graph API
From Wired via Thomas Roessler:
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
I hope nobody thought their behaviour on youtube.com was a [...]
Drupal is now OAuth-enabled
via Sumit Kataria on the oauth list:
I am very happy to announce that Drupal’s OAuth module is now ready to use. Right now it just acts as server because we don’t need client support at this time, Client implementation will be done soon by the time release of Drupal 7 as ServicesAPI in Drupal 7 will [...]
Obama Web jobs in Boston
How could this not be a fun way to spend 6 months?
Obama for America is looking for exceptionally talented web developers who want to play a key role in a historic political campaign and help elect Barack Obama as the next President of the United States.
This six-month opportunity will allow you to:
Create software tools which [...]
OAuth support in Google Accounts and Contacts API
From Wei on the oauth list:
We are happy to announce that the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth. This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs. Please note that this is an alpha release and we may make changes to the protocol before the official release.
See announcement thread for endpoint [...]
Journals of Negative Results
Via the INDUCTIVE mailing list, I learned of the Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
It is becoming more and more obvious that the research community in general, and those who work NLP and ML in particular, are biased towards publishing successful ideas and experiments. Insofar as both our research [...]
WHY MIGHT CONNECTING WITH ZANDER JULES BE A GOOD IDEA?
Or: towards evidence-based ‘add a contact’ filtering…
This just in from LinkedIn:
Have a question? Zander Jules’s network will probably have an answer
You can use LinkedIn Answers to distribute your professional questions to Zander Jules and your extended network. You can get high-quality answers from experienced professionals.
Zander Jules requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
Dan,
Dear
My [...]
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Restarter martyr: sounds of Firefox 3b5
I use Firefox with a lot of tabs. I guess I’m a multi-tasker. Or I have surplus attention. Or they fixed enough memory leaks in Firefox 3 so that opening a new tab is almost cost-free. Until you restart your browser (is there a bug open for this? I couldn’t find one).
I’ve just made a [...]
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