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Glastonbury 2013
Another year, another great Glastonbury. It’s already been a month since our trip to the UK for the annual Glastonbury festival, so this is post is long due. Better late than ever I guess 🙂 As every year, it was an amazing just being there. The great music, art, performances were added bonus! Before the…
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I knew I had some alien blood in me 🙂
Mary and I recently did the 23andme thing. I know it’s not as accurate as other methods but I still wanted to support the company in what they are trying to achieve and their contributions to genetics-based research. Also, it was Mary’s Xmas present so I had to do it 🙂 Well, the results are…
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Convergence of User Experiences
Disclaimer: These thoughts do NOT represent strategy or plans by my team or company. They are just that… thoughts. The way we consume information and services has transformed over the last few years. Small, specialized applications on smartphones and tablets have displaced the Web browser as our primary window into the digital world. Could the…
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On Graph Data Model Design – Relationships
Context: Jim mentioned in his QCon talk that I am advocating for hypergraphs as the model of choice when designing a graph store. That’s not true. The previous post has the details. Jim and I have been discussing graph store/database design for a long time now. As it is always the case, we argue 🙂…
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QCon London 2013 – “A Platform for All That We Know”
A couple of weeks ago I attended QCon London 2013* where I had the pleasure of giving a version of my “A Platform for All That We Know” talk. I had to keep the talk on the abstract side since Qi Lu, our president, hadn’t yet talked about the “Bing Information Platform”. My very good…
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Let’s teach kids how to code
What a great initiative from the leaders of our field: “code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education.” Programming “is the closest thing we have to a superpower” 🙂 (Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox) I love to code. It’s my hobby, my way of expressing myself, my art, my profession.…
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Big data analytics determines the next big hit?
There shouldn’t be any surprise in the “How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets” article but I still found it to be yet-another fascinating example of our new age of computing, one in which personalization and highly targeted experiences are the norm, one in which the big companies collect, combine, and analyze all sorts of…
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The world’s knowledge as a collection of information streams
Representing all knowledge as a set of continuous streams has been in my mind for few years now. In some of my public talks, I illustrated how information graphs and information streams might merge, how each single entity and each relationship could be represented as an individual stream, and how information should really be addressable…
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Facebook’s Search Graph
I’ve been working on Graph Store-related technologies for 5-6years now. I got fascinated by the idea of representing the world’s information as an interconnected network (check out my semantics-related posts and some of my publications). Back when I was in Microsoft Research I built Zentity, a graph store + programming platform, with Lee Dirk’s and…
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cvoya – the company
History If you follow my tweets, you might have noticed that I make a reference from time-to-time to an illusive “side project” 🙂 About 4 years ago, I started working on an idea for a web-based platform to connect the physical and digital worlds as an application of semantic computing (and no, it’s not augmented…