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Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.
Wikipatterns.com is

Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
* http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID ...
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

The web is better when it's social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that ...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications ...
Many sites, one API
A common API means you have less to learn to build for m ...

Free social software
* Dutch
Share information quickly and easily with Dutch; o ...
* Roundhouse
... A collaborative networking suite.

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

I've been brainstorming about a way to make a distribute... using OpenID. The goals I have for such a network are:
1. Use OpenID for global identities.
2. If you have an account on service A, and I have an ...
3. Some sort of output format that

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

Social Lending is where people lend and borrow money wit... sidestepping the banks. And the more you think about it,... sense.

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
Newmark say

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
Use Riya to:
* Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ...
* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.

The public web is made up of linked pages that represent... people. Google Search helps make this information more a... useful. If you take away the documents, you're left with... between people. Information about the public connections... really usef

We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of provi... humanity in various forms, and providing true functional... need it. Connections are good, but functionality is para... that a company can store ticket information on the web i... but the use

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

This event focuses on some significant developments in I... that have emerged in the last few years. Although these ... received widespread media coverage they have so far rece... way of sustained investigation by the social sciences. T... intended to

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication
Open Source Web Single Sign-On
An open source project originally designed to provide th ...

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
Michael Arrington
176 comments »
Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is ...
... t to lunch today. Either way, we’ve captured it above.

CyberPsychology & Behavior
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This bimonthly peer-reviewed journal explores the impact ...

Flickrvision
Picked this web app from a friend's facebook page and I ...
Just a fleeting glimpse of strangers' lives and interest ...
Perhaps we could learn something from this for Emerge... ...

Throughout the course of the past two months, our projec... lot of changes. Originally, we thought our project could... addiction, the consequences of misinformation online and... interventions, or relationships and social networks. The... relationshi

Young people are risking their privacy and leaving poten... information on social-networking sites, says the Information Commissioner's Office.
Millions of young people in Britain would not want a col ...

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

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The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

Social networking site Facebook is facing an investigati... privacy watchdog after a complaint from a Channel 4 News...

Ripple is a dedicated scripting language for the Semanti... programs not only query the Semantic Web, but also resid... data structures, forming a global network of interlinked... is best classified as a relational stack language, close... functional

With Friends Like These
webpage from facebook site
Are we revealing too much information about ourselves?
BBC Radio 4's Analysis: With Friends Like These will be ...
... c and searchable, and will be around, perhaps, for ever.

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot