Group items tagged

This is where thought turns to action. With our thoughts collected and organized, we can put them to work: our thoughts may be collated with content and expressed as documents; they might traverse the Web to find related information; they might interface with social networks to connect like-minded individuals. Organized within semantic networks, thoughts have the power to direct computers on our behalf.

Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use.

One of the surprising things that I learned pretty quickly (as an IT professional I should know this and should have checked it beforehand) is that the Facebook login session is unencrypted, which means that any five year old can hack into a Facebook account by sniffing passwords on the network. Encrypting login sessions is such a basic security measure that it's scandalous that the default login page for Facebook does not use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

A lifestream is an a record of your online activities that is generally created with RSS feeds from a variety of social media and networking services.

"Blogject" is a neologism that's meant to focus attention on the participation of "objects" and "things" in the sphere of networked social discourse variously called the blogosphere, or social web. The Blogject is a kind of early ancestor to the Spime, Bruce Sterling's resonant, single-syllable noun for things that are searchable, track their location, usage histories and discourse with the other things around them.

Primal Fusion is a Waterloo-based startup that is about to come out of stealth mode, with a technology focused in semantic data retrieval. You can find transcription of the main issues of this video presentation down here below: .......

Hictu is a video microblogging service. Users can create their own microblog with small posts (with text, audio and video), personalize their public profiles, manage a presence-enabled friend list, meet new friends. It's easy to use, funny, effective and free.

Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)

What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice. (continue...)