Soccerex - Making Money From Social Media - Fullscreen Tim Berners-Lee Announces Web Science Initiative - Studying the This morning I participated in a conference call by MIT and the University of Southampton in Britain, announcing an initiative called Web Science. Tim Berners-Lee is leading the program, which is essentially about formalizing a new kind of scientific discipline called Web Science. The goal is to understand the deeper structure of the social Web and how people are using it. But as well as studying the Web, they also hope to shape the future of the Web. Web science will have both social and engineering dimensions. As Berners-Lee summarized it in a pre-conference interview with the BBC: "What we're saying is that it's becoming so important that things like Wikipedia are being created, new business models are emerging and that it's changing our lives so much that we have to have a science to understand this." Highlights from conference call In the conference call Tim Berners-Lee started off by mentioning the 100 million Web sites milestone recently reached by the Web. Summary
ACM Web Science 2012 Exokernel Operating System MIT Exokernel Operating System Putting the Application in Control. An operating system is interposed between applications and the physical hardware. Therefore, its structure has a dramatic impact on the performance and the scope of applications that can be built on it. Since its inception, the field of operating systems has been attempting to identify an appropriate structure: previous attempts include the familiar monolithic and micro-kernel operating systems as well as more exotic language-based and virtual machine operating systems. Exokernels dramatically depart from this previous work. Structure of an exokernel system. in turn use the exokernel to allocate and deallcate hardware resources. We have built several exokernel based systems. Check out a slide-show about exokernels on our documentation page. An alpha-release of our exopc distribution is currently available.
What Social Media Users Want [STATS] Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and Digg's audience has a mixed bag of interests. This is all according to online advertising network Chitika, who set out to analyze the interests of MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Digg users by comparing the genres of sites that receive traffic from these social networks. 287,090 impressions were used in the report, and based on this research, each social site has a distinct makeup of users with unique tastes. The graphic below breaks it down. Another interesting tidbit is that MySpace users have no interest in news whatsoever. If anything this data points to the varied interests behind our current obsession with popular social networks. Image courtesy of ChrisAt, iStockphoto
EspacesTemps.net Who Will Control the IoT? (AAPL, GOOG, IBM, IDCC, MMI) The early Internet was a strange, chaotic place -- much like the young universe, if it were plastered with animated GIFs. Over time, that bewildering mass coalesced around familiar open standards that are still in use: CSS, XML and its derivatives, grizzled veteran HTML (now in its fifth edition), and others. The next leap forward, toward an Internet of things, is rapidly approaching. The key to its success is likely to lie in its openness, and failure might well lie in the aftermath of patent warfare. Network all the thingsThe mobile revolution has brought with it plenty of border skirmishes, as dedicated followers of the sector can attest. Why is this so important? The patent player: AppleApple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) filed a patent at the tail end of 2009 dubbed "Local Device Awareness," which describes automated connections between a number of close-range devices. The patent(-less?) Controlling the connected home is only one element of the Internet of things, but it's an important one.
Internet Archive: Details: Evolved Virtual Nestle PR Anti-Social Fail Whale « FaceBookCreep::Digital Market Nestle haven’t had a good day today. They launched a Facebook page in an attempt to break into the social media sphere. They must be badly advised, because they assumed that a Facebook page was something you could control like a walled garden. Unfortunately, it’s not really gone their way. One of the risks of a social media intervention is that you cannot control or account for people’s fickle behaviour. Attempting to control the conversation is futile. Thanks to @MichelleDigital I was reminded that the Coke Page was set up by actual fans who latterly received money for the page to become more “pro”. Nestle’s visible bullyboy tactics by the Page admins (click on the thumbnails for more details) served only to inflame the already incensed palm oil campaigners. unprofessional.
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Colliding Web Sciences - MIT Research Initiative Yesterday' conversation with Leslie Bradshaw of New Media Strategies , one of a talented caste of co-presenters at Friedman Foundation's first Generator Forum on social media and the recent passing of Oliver Selfridge, founding father of artificial intelligence, reminded me I had not posted on the Web Science Research Initiative begun this fall at MIT and South Hampton University. September's Scientific American detailed the philosophy and research focus of the academic program in their article Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future. What is most striking to me is the multidisciplinary approach the initiative is assuming from the start and acknowledging the socio-cultural impact as core. There is a symbiotic relationship with web technology, the intentions of people wanting to connect around what interests and motivates them and the culture that evolves. ~ Victoria G.
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