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"Book recommended by Nick Milton"

"This recent study shows some differences between the most used social networking sites including Face-book, Linked-in, My Space etc."

Blogs are easy to create and update, and rich, useful, and original blog content will encourage readers to come back to your site. Here are some tips for making the most of your blog.

In September, the Wikimedia Foundation won a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to start building the "Wikimedia Knowledge Engine," a "system for discovering reliable and trustworthy public information on the internet," according to grant documents, which were released late last week. That the Knowledge Engine, now known as "Wikimedia Discovery," even existed was news to the Wikipedia editors community, who say the project's secretive nature and very existence are fundamentally at odds with Wikimedia's transparent ethos.

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly influential in peoples' lives, but their inner workings are often opaque. We examine why, and explore what's being done about it.

Virtual assistants get infuriating when they fail to do something we expect to be within their capabilities. Researchers are interested in studying how people form expectations about what such systems can and can't do-and how virtual assistants themselves might be designed to nudge us toward only asking things that won't lead to disappointment. One of the research questions is how do you reset a user's expectations on the fly when they're interacting with a virtual assistant.