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Zentity v1.0 and Facilitating Semantic Research
I am in Atlanta for the Open Repositories 09 where I’ve joined the rest of the Scholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Pablo Fernicola, and of course Tony Hey). Tony Hey just announced the general availability of Zentity v1.0 (download). It’s been a loooong but very rewarding road over the last 1 1/2 years.…
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Going to Atlanta for the Open Repositories O9 conference
In the next few days I’ll be posting and tweeting about all the MSR-related activities at the Open Repositories 09 conference. I am going there to join the MSRScholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Pablo Fernicola) and of course Tony Hey. As I had previously mentioned, we are also holding a workshop on…
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Wolfram|Alpha – A knowledge computational engine
I’ve been following all the hype and discussions around Wolfram|Alpha. In few hours it’ll go live. I’ve been lucky enough to have played with it and I like it a lot. I can totally see its potential. I believe that the direction Stephen Wolfram and his team are taking to be the absolute right one…
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A joke… capturing the Greek mentality towards work
Few nights ago, my friends Sophie and David came over for dinner with my parents. It was a lovely evening. During the dinner conversation, my father said the following joke that I think captures the Greek mentality towards work, especially by public sector employees. I am sure that every nation will have a similar joke…
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Murray Sargent’s blog
If you are interested in publishing, equations, Scholarly Communications technologies, or if you just want to learn from a great developer and a really fantastic guy, then I highly recommend Murray‘s blog. He’s a Microsoft veteran and amongst the nicest guys I’ve met in the company. Also, he’s one of the two people responsible for…
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The Digital Inclusion Hub at Newcastle
Paul Watson, my PhD supervisor, has recently started using twitter. I really love the fact that he’s stays in touch with all the recent technologies 🙂 Amongst other things, he tweets about the Digital Inclusion Hub, an initiative in the UK for which Newcastle has been awarded 12M UKP. That’s a huge amount of research…
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My crazy life is going to slow down for a bit (parents are visiting 🙂
The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy, both at work and in my personal life. Since I can’t talk about what’s going on at work, I’ll log the highlights of what has been happening on the social front. I seem to go crazy around Spring 🙂 At first, it was a fantastic weekend with…
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Cool Facebook experiences
Some Microsoft folks developed some new user experiences on top of Facebook‘s newly announced stream API. Very cool. Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo.
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“The Commons” is impressive
On Friday I visited “The Commons”, Microsoft‘s latest building complex. It includes restaurants, shops, a football (“soccer” for the Americans) field, basketball, tables and chairs outside. It’s beautiful. It’s like a shopping center inside the Microsoft campus but I am not sure about having a Microsoft-only collection of shops. Photo source: “Microsoft opens The Commons…
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Apologies for the disruption in service
I had a file permissions problem with my hosting service provider (Bizhostnet) so I contacted them in an attempt to find a solution. Unfortunately, their solution was to make a change in the IIS7 application pool that completely disabled all the functionality that I’ve been implementing for my web site. Only the front page was…