dynamic overlays that allow any blogger or online publisher to integrate multimedia content into their pages.
use Zemanta as usual
insert links
After your post goes public,
additional icon
allow your readers to access the information
without having to leave
content from from the Creative Commons-licensed Freebase database
includes information from sources such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and MusicBrainz
millions of articles from Freebase contributors.
Balloon links will appear only when we can show a smart overlay
It’s about standards and open web
The underlying code for Balloons is open source and built on the Common Tag architecture
open tagging format
developed by Zemanta, Yahoo, AdaptiveBlue, Freebase, and others.
make content more connected, discoverable, and engaging.
every aspect of Balloons – from its open source code base to its use of Freebase’s openly licensed content – has been designed to ensure the easy, free, and open spread of information across the web.
pages that are supported by Zemanta:
Google Mail Compose
Yahoo Mail Compose
Authoring pages of Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType and other blogging platforms that are supported by our browser extensions.
Left to right:
* triangular switch to close (hide detail) or open
— green switch for other user's bookmarks
— amber switch for your own bookmarks
* favicon of the bookmarked item
* username of the most recent networker
* title of the bookmarked item
— font size a little greater than the norm
* date or time of networking
— font size a little less than the norm
+ save
+ spam?
— these options appear when you curse over the date/time.
When the bookmark is open, detail comprises:
* highlight from the page
* personal note
* tags
— Common Tag
— as you curse over each one, its definition
* popularity
— the number of people who have networked the bookmarked item
+ overview
— this option appears subtly when you curse over the number.
Example Faviki overviews http://www.faviki.com/webpage/wave.google.com_28277 and
http://www.faviki.com/webpage/esw.w3.org_12350 suggest that early adopters of Faviki may not make greatest use of highlights and notes, but that's a separate topic …
Will AIR applications be deployable in Google Chrome OS? Or, is this possibility reduced by Adobe's changes to WebKit?
When and how will Adobe's changes to WebKit become available at webkit.org?
Defocusing from Adobe: is there now less platform-specific code within WebKit? How soon might the goal — no platform-specific code — be realised?
An open source framework for building search clustering engines. It can automatically organize small collections of documents, e.g. search results, into thematic categories.
Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. Its algorithms should successfully cluster up to about a thousand text documents, a few paragraphs each.
"It can discover and learn millions of relations, not just one at a time. With TextRunner, there is no human in the loop: it just finds relations on its own."
enter, for example, "kills bacteria,"
insights that "chlorine kills bacteria" or "ultraviolet light kills bacteria" or "heat kills bacteria"
then visit the Web page
ways to preview the text
triples
prototype
the ability of software to achieve rudimentary understanding of text
unprecedented scale and scope
analogous to technology developed by Powerset
a tool that was limited
TextRunner technology handles
arbitrary text on any page, including blog posts, product catalogues, newspaper articles, and more
"this work reflects a growing trend toward the design of search tools that actively combine the pieces of information they find on the Web into a larger synthesis."
I work at CENTRIM — the Centre for Research in Innovation Management. Beyond work: I enjoy solitude, letting go, camping getaways and dreaming. I have great family and friends, and two gorgeous cats. Take not too much notice of my bookmarks — hundreds are unread!