semantic weltbild 2.0 (Building the Semantic Web is easier together)Building the Semantic Web is easier togetherMashup NMC symposium- May 30, 2008 In April 2008 there was a symposium on mashups: http:www.nmc.orgconference2008-spring-symposium In their call for proposals they used a picture to illustrate the ideas of mashups: which shows a mashup I coded myself on my home linux box to combine CanonEOS400 pictures with a GPSLogger of a yacht with google earth. The classical kissology effect: the bits we spent most time on are not as much viewed as the simple nice hacks.http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/4961147/ "Singin in the rain" - Dancing naked in Vilnius Center- May 25, 2008 Watch the dancing Austrian National Rugby Team naked in Vilnius, all over the web: We (=meaning the national identity of Austrians) lost very high against the Lithuanian team that day.http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/4947851/ Sign up for the NEPOMUK Summer School- May 20, 2008 Join the 1st NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop Summer School at Hotel Victoria, Sliema, Malta 7-13 September 2008. For PhD students, learning about Semantic Desktop and PIM, Social Semantic Desktop. Application Closes: 9th June 2008 Notification of acceptance: 16th June 2008 Deadline for registration: 15th July 2008 The NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop EU Project brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a...http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/4937694/ Samsung is gay - not- May 14, 2008 As Gizmodo put it: Apple Perceived As Gay-Friendly, Samsung Not. In a study Gay people were asked about their preferences for companies. So - this makes my Samsung X25 laptop a problem, luckily I tacked an apple on the logo long ago..http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/4926154/ 15 years of a free web- May 5, 2008 Happy Birthday, Free Web. On April 30 1993 (well, I am a week late to gratulate, but anyway) CERN published the software and standards of the web as free software. "CERN's decision to make the Web foundations and protocols available on a royalty free basis, and without additional impediments, was crucial to the Web's existence. Without this commitment, the enormous individual and corporate investment in Web technology simply would never have happened, and we wouldn't have the Web today." Tim..http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/4910035/ |