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Tweet Twitter reports that its users are sent an average of 140M tweets a day last month. That adds up to a billion a week, in round numbers. Another impressive statistic their post cites is...

March 15, 2011 · 9:04 AM

AAAI-11 Workshop on Activity Context Representation:...

Full Title: AAAI-11 Workshop on Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages Tweet Pervasive, context-aware computing technologies can significantly enhance and improve the coming...

March 14, 2011 · 4:45 AM

Twitter changes TOS;might hurt researchers

Tweet ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter recently made changes in its Terms of Service. Specifically, Twitter will no longer grant any more requests for whitelisting and it would no longer allow...

March 7, 2011 · 8:43 PM

Journal of Web Semantics special issues on context...

Full Title: Journal of Web Semantics special issues on context and mobility Tweet The Journal of Web Semantics has announced two new special issues to be published in 2010. An issue on...

March 6, 2011 · 1:34 PM

Free linked data book by Tom Heath and Chris Bizer

Tweet Congratulations to Tom Heath and Christian Bizer on the publication of their new book, Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. It’s published by Morgan & Claypool in...

March 2, 2011 · 9:17 AM

Google recipe search exploits semantic web data in RDFa

Tweet Many people now use the Web to find recipes rather than their own collection of cookbooks and it is estimated that about one percent of all Google searches are for recipes. This past...

February 26, 2011 · 11:27 AM

CloudCamp Baltimore, 6-10pm Wed Mar 9, 2011

Tweet There will be a free CloudCamp meeting in Baltimore from 6:000pm to 10:00pm Wednesday March 9th at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Cloudcamps are participants-driven unconferences where...

February 24, 2011 · 9:58 AM

ICWSM 2011 Data Challenge with 3TB of social media data

Tweet The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is holding a new data challenge using a new dataset from that includes about three TB of social media data collected by...

February 23, 2011 · 1:49 PM

Did Watson enjoy a head start on Jeopardy?

Tweet IBM’s Watson’s performance in last week’s Jeopardy Challenge was an amazing accomplishment and a demonstration of how our computer systems are becoming more intelligent and capable of...

February 22, 2011 · 9:12 AM

Computer Science publication culture

Tweet There has been an ongoing discussion on the publication culture with the computer science research community in CACM, carried out through a series of editorials, opinion pieces, articles...

February 14, 2011 · 12:28 PM

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