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At the Semantic Technologies conference
I just arrived in San Jose for the Semantic Technologies conference. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference on a subject that I am VERY excited about so I do hope that the program is interesting. I am going to be at the Microsoft booth as well to demo Zentity and talk…
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The 48 hour film project
My friend David is very much into film directing. While he was taking classes, he asked me to act in his film projects with his wife Sophie in the first one and other friends in the second one. It was a looooooot of fun and we even shot the “making of” :-))) Last year, David…
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Good read: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”
I enjoyed reading the “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” article by Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira of Google. Recommended.
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My parents’ visit
It’s been a week since my parents left (they visited for 30 days). It was great having them around. If you’ve been following my twitter updates, you’d probably know that it was a bit hectic trying to balance work, parents, and a bit of social life. No matter how crazy life was, though, it was…
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Double WOW…
I would ordinary have included this as an update to my previous post about Microsoft‘s Project “Natal” but I am soooo excited about the potential of the technology that I am posting a new entry. Double WOW WOW!!! I know that when Microsoft shoots a video and says that it’s not made up, they really…
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My new “toy”: BMW R1200GS
Remember about a couple of years ago when I was considering to buy a motorbike? Few months later I went through a safety course and got my US rider endorsement. Then, last year I came very close to buying the 2008 BMW R1200GS (even put down a deposit) but then I decided that it was…
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Wow… “The controller is you”
Now, this is very cool. Even if half of what’s on the video is actually real, it’s still very exciting. This should be the way we interact with technology all around us. Wayyyyyy cool (and I am not just saying because it’s Microsoft’‘s upcoming addition to the living room). Via Engadget.
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“How many roads must a man walk…”
Some of you might know that Bob Dylan is amongst my favorite artists. I’ve seen him only twice so I can’t wait to see him again. Probably sometime this year since he’s touring again to support his new album. So I love the way that WolframAlpha answers the question. “How many roads must a man…
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Jim is training the world 🙂
Just noticed from his tweet feed that Jim is going to be sharing his brains through the Web. I suspect (haven’t talked to him about this yet) that he’s going to present most of the thinking that we are putting in our Web book. I know that I am biased but I think it’s going…
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My site in other languages
As part of our Scholarly Communications-related activities in Atlanta (check out my previous post about Zentity v1.0), Alex Wade is going to talk tomorrow about a cool service: Translator. The web form-based translation does not represent anything new but check out the AJAX-based service. If you notice on the left column of my blog, three…