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http://blog.slideshare.net/2011/09/27/slideshare-html5/

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Since the time since we launched, SlideShare has been using Flash to display your slides. When we first built SlideShare, it was impossible to build something like SlideShare without Flash. But the web has finally caught up!

Semantic Web Languages

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:41

Una presentazione dall'Università di Amsterdam sui linguaggi del Semantic Web: RDF, RDFS, SKOS, SPARQL

http://www.slideshare.net/rinkehoekstra/siks-2011-semantic-web-languages

 

http://www.thefigtrees.net/lee/blog/2011/09/saving_months_not_millisecon...
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The bottom line is this: The Semantic Web lets you do things fast. And because you can do things fast, you can do lots more things than you could before. [...]

FuturICT

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:33

http://www.futurict.eu/
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Today, we know more about the universe than about our society. It's time to use the power of information to explore social and economic life on Earth and discover options for a sustainable future. Together, we can manage the challenges of the 21st century, combining the best of all knowledge.

The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator is a previously unseen multidisciplinary international scientific endeavour with focus on techno-socio-economic-environmental systems. [...]

Il talk di Martin Hepp al SemTech di Londra:

http://vimeo.com/29600112

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In this talk, I will illustrate how adding structured data in Web content is a key component of any future marketing strategy for specific products, and illustrate the roles of schema.org, GoodRelations, RDFa, and Microdata for future Web architectures.

This is a recording of my keynote at the London Semantic Tech & Business Conference on September 26, 2011

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It's the end of the web as we know it

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:26

http://adrianshort.co.uk/2011/09/25/its-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it/
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The conclusion here should be obvious: if you really care about your site you need to run it on your own domain. You need to own your URLs. You’ll have total control and no-one can take it away from you. You don’t need anyone else. If you put the effort in up front it’ll pay off in the long run.

But it’s no longer that simple. [...]

CheckFacebook.com

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:19

http://www.checkfacebook.com/
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CheckFacebook.com is not affiliated with Facebook. Each day, CheckFacebook.com tracks data reported from Facebook's advertising tool to help marketers and researchers understand how Facebook is spreading across the globe.
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Facebook tracks you even after you've logged out

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:18

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/26/facebook-offline-tracking
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Cubrilovic conducted a series of tests, which showed that Facebook only modifies the tracking cookies instead of deleting them once you log out. It appears that your account information is still contained within the cookies so that whenever you visit a website that features a Facebook share button or widget, your browser sends information back to Facebook.
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Why put your personal info online?

Submitted by Irene on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 11:15

Opinabile, ma certamente interessante.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/09/why-put-your-person...
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WHEN writer Jeff Jarvis decided to tell the world about his prostate cancer he didn't spare the gory details: he happily blogged about his "malfunctioning penis" after surgery, and the adult diaper he had to wear.

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