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Delicious DNA

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Delicious DNA (via One Floor Up)

(thanks, Andrey! )

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October 7th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Wired Geekpedia

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The Wired World, from A to Z
Wikipedia doesn’t distinguish “need to know” from “didja know?” — and it’s lousy for browsing. That’s why we created Wired Geekipedia. Godwin’s law, Guitar Hero, Gates Foundation — you may know their definitions, but we tell you what they really mean.

Link: http://www.wired.com/wired/issue/geekipedia

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October 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Boris Müller

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esono.com is the design studio of Prof. Boris Müller. While the studio is just a desk in Berlin, Boris has the great pleasure to work with fantastic people on interactive and often experimental projects. Boris also teaches at the Interface Design programme of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

I found his works very very interesting!

Link: http://www.esono.com/ 

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September 26th, 2007 at 11:05 am

Packet Garden

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Packet Garden: grown a world from network traffic:

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

Beautiful!

Link: http://packetgarden.com/ (via O’Reilly Radar)

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September 24th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Six Apart is opening the social graphs

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According to them:

Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them. OpenID, which was born at Six Apart less than two years ago, was successful by embracing a similar philosophy: no one company should own everyone’s online identity. An open social graph is just as important as an open identity.

* You should own your social graph
* Privacy must be done right by placing control in your hands
* It is good to be able to find out what is already public about you on the Internet
* Everyone has many social graphs, and they shouldn’t always be connected
* Open technologies are the best way to solve these problems
* We’re going to release code and demos soon

Read the entire post here: http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/09/were_opening_th.html 

(via Read/WriteWeb)

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September 21st, 2007 at 12:05 pm

It’s not your content until you can move it

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This is a very interesting cause:

Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please. Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.

We will help ensure that no website ever holds your data hostage.

MoveMyData.org

Written by lu terceiro

September 18th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

Tagging for time, task and emotion

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Apresentação interessante que vi no BSF: @toread and cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion

A autora pesquisa como o uso de tags não se restringe a assuntos, mas também a tarefas (como “para ler”, “para visitar”) e sentimentos (“legal”, “engraçado”). Para quem usa Delicious e Flickr e afins e já tem isso mais do que incorporado, a pesquisa pode não surpreender. Mas, do ponto de vista de quem lida com classificação num contexto como o da Biblioteconomia, surgir uma forma de classificação não baseada em assuntos mas sim em coisas tão subjetivas é realmente uma quebra.

A apresentação foi feita no IA Summit que rolou este ano, em Las Vegas.

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September 18th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

Mais uma utilidade para o Captcha

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recaptcha.pngUm projeto da Escola de Ciência da Computação de Carnegie Mellon, universidade americana de Pittsburg, na Pensilvânia, encontrou uma nova aplicação para os captchas: digitalização de livros.

Captchas são aquelas pequenas caixas de verificação que mostram uma palavra distorcida para que o usuário se identifique como humano pela digitação dos dados nela contido, evitando assim atividades automatizadas de spammer. Com o projeto ReCaptcha, a idéia é dar a esta tarefa uma outra utilidade prática, identificando palavras que a digitalização de livros via OCR não pôde reconhecer, conforme noticiou o site TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/recaptcha-using-captchas-to-digitize-books/).

As palavras então são enviadas ao Internet Archive, que abriga atualmente 200 mil cópias de livros escaneadas. Qualquer administrador que quiser colaborar com o projeto pode se inscrever para baixar os widgets e APIs que poderão ser implementadas em seus próprios sites e sistemas.

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A idéia veio após as estimativas de Luis Von Ahn e Ben Maurer, idealizadores do projeto, de que a cada dia 60 milhões de captchas são resolvidos. Levando em conta que cada um deles leva 10 segundos para ser preenchido e enviado, isto significaria cerca de 160 mil horas humanas por dia, aproximadamente 19 anos.

Mais informações podem ser lidas no site recaptcha.net.

(texto de Rodrigo Martin de Macedo)

Written by lu terceiro

September 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

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DomínioPúblico.org

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Música, obras, teses, tudo gratuito, uma beleza!

… o “Portal Domínio Público”, ao disponibilizar informações e conhecimentos de forma livre e gratuita, busca incentivar o aprendizado, a inovação e a cooperação entre os geradores de conteúdo e seus usuários, ao mesmo tempo em que também pretende induzir uma ampla discussão sobre as legislações relacionadas aos direitos autorais – de modo que a “preservação de certos direitos incentive outros usos” -, e haja uma adequação aos novos paradigmas de mudança tecnológica, da produção e do uso de conhecimentos.

Aqui: http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/

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September 17th, 2007 at 10:49 am

Social circles

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Andrey, as always, have sent me some very interesting stuff:

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Everyone
A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing the 5 different sets of social databases I use: Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends, Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger contacts and those in my mobile phonebook. A total of 259 people.
(see a bigger image at Max Barrett website)

(source: manystuff.org)

A beautiful work that illustrates Read/WriteWeb article titled Social Graphs: concepts and issues:

Brad Firzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines “social graph” as “the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related”.

Read the complete article at Read/WriteWeb

(thanks, Andrey!)

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Written by lu terceiro

September 16th, 2007 at 8:34 pm