This won’t be relevant to everyone but I know some computing students read this blog so for their sake I’m embedding this very good presentation on “The art of doing a PhD”. My synonyms for PhD: hard, lonely, exciting, humbling, exalting, confusing, interesting. And most of[...]
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December 4th, 2008 - 8:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Internet 2 – in research since 1996
“Internet Evolution” (sponsored by IBM) have a very cool and information (and thorough) article on Internet 2. We talk a lot about web 2.0/3.0 but rarely about Internet 1.0/2.0. We need the Internet to work properly otherwise there is no www. The Internet is as Roger Smith puts it [...]
December 4th, 2008 - 7:48 pm § in Uncategorized
Systers Microsoft meet
If you fancy popping along to the Microsoft professional developers conferences, they have added a women’s networking event called Woman’s Build. Hilary Pike will be hosting it. You can also go to the Lego SeriousPlay WomenBuild workshop at the MSDN Developer Conferences! It combine[...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 9:32 pm § in Uncategorized
The semantic web is not research as usual
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) did a nice lecture called “Where Does It Break? Or: Why the Semantic Web is Not Just ‘Research as Usual’” – I think that there is a lot of confusion about what the semantic web is and how complicated the entire thing is.[...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 8:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Making Twitter bots
As some companies have figured out, there is a lot of information to be gleaned from Twitter that can benefit their business. They can manage reputation and customer service for example. There are however other reasons to collect information which do not involve marketing motivations but for exa[...]
December 1st, 2008 - 9:59 pm § in Uncategorized
Why writing a search engine is hard
Anna Patterson, research Associate to the formal reasoning group at Stanford and ex-Googler, also head lady at the Cuil search engine explains why writing a search engine is hard at the ACM queue. Some main points: Building good search engines has never been done in a big group but in teams of 1 to [...]
November 28th, 2008 - 8:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Why I used Blogger
I’m often asked why I use blogger to host my blog, being a knowledgeable SEO person, and also a computer scientist. ”I should know better” is the main idea. I advocate using WordPress instead, and tell everyone else to do so when they ask me what they should use for their blog&[...]
November 27th, 2008 - 1:54 am § in Uncategorized
Google, my backend system
Right now, we’re the web equivalent of the horse and cart. We have invented the wheel, and domesticated animals and this has revolutionised our existence, especially the way in which we do business, but…I don’t see Ferrari’s, E-type Jags or anything like that right now in w[...]
