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Apple Safari Can Expose Your Private Data

Apple’s Safari browser has a privacy vulnerability allowing web sites you visit to extract your personal information (e.g., name, address, phone number) from your computer’s address book. The fix...

July 22, 2010 · 10:29 PM

Google Acquires Metaweb and Freebase

Google announced today that it has acquired Metaweb, the company behind Freebase — a free, semantic database of “over 12 million people, places, and things in the world.” This is from their...

July 16, 2010 · 3:30 PM

Search Neutrality: Google and Danny Sullivan Weigh In

Web search guru Danny Sullivan has a great response to the NYT editorial on regulating search engine algorithms: The New York Times Algorithm and Why It Needs Government Regulation. Here’s how it...

July 16, 2010 · 1:01 AM

Barry Smith Short Course Online: An Introduction to Ontology

Here’s a great resource if you want to come up to speed on ontologies and their importance today. Professor Barry Smith of the University at Buffalo held a two-day course, An Introduction to...

July 15, 2010 · 5:36 PM

New York Times Editorializes About the Google Search...

Full Title: New York Times editorializes about the Google search ranking algorithm In what may be a first, today’s New York Times has an editorial about an algorithm. No, they haven’t waded into...

July 15, 2010 · 2:28 PM

Google Open Spot Android App Finds Parking

Google’s Open Spot Android app lets people leaving parking spots share the information with others searching for parking nearby. Running the app shows you parking spots within a 1.5km. New...

July 9, 2010 · 7:02 PM

USCYBERCOM Secret Revealed

The secret message included in the USCYBERCOM logo 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a is what the md5sum function returns when applied to the string that is USCYBERCOM’s official mission...

July 8, 2010 · 9:11 PM

Cyber Command Embeds Encrypted Message in USCYBERCOM Logo

Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is the new unit in the US Department of Defense that is responsible for the “defense of specified Department of Defense information networks” and, when needed, to...

July 7, 2010 · 1:33 PM

Wikipedia Offline Due to Power Outage

Wikipedia was offline for nearly twelve hours today, starting about 11:00am EDT. According to Wikipedia’s Twitter feed: “Thanks for being patient, everyone. We’ve figured out the problem:...

July 4, 2010 · 11:39 PM

How Could Semantic Overflow Eat Its Own Dog Food?

Semantic Overflow is great largely because it benefits from the good design and implementation of the StackExchange framework. Could our site be be improved with Semantic Web technology? It’s...

July 4, 2010 · 11:00 PM

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