We’ve launched a service for letting people share, in real time, what pages they’re looking at on the web. Our system, eyebrowse, lets the person choose exactly what sites they want to share their viewing patterns about, and eyebrowse does the rest — producing statistical visualisations of your web browsing habits over time, compared to [...]
Natasha Noy gave a talk at CSAIL with the above title. She works in with a large medical bioinformatics group at Stanford. The bioinformatics community in general couldn’t care less about cool computer science but is one of the few groups that have heavily adopted formal ontologies as a way to get their work done. [...]
From our friends in Southhampton (correction: and Hasso-Platner), a study of how to differentiate experts (who really know how to tag stuff) from spammers (who want to tag their own stuff, but try to acquire credibility by copying tags others have used). They try to exploit the difference that the people who tag first are [...]
Xavier Amatriain of Telefonica research presented work on collaborative filtering. Usually you do collaborative filtering by finding the other users “similar” to your subject and combining their recommendations. This paper argued/demonstrated that sometimes you are better off figuring out who the experts art and only paying attention to their opinions. You might just create [...]
This year Wendy Mackay, Aurélien Tabard and I held a workshop for examining interaction challenges surrounding time, in particular time as a component of temporal data sets. Our interest in this topic was brought about by the observation that low-cost storage, cheap sensing technologies, the Web and high speed networking have started to bring us [...]
This is a CIDR presentation by Nodira Khoussainova of University of Washington arguing for a collaborative repository of complex SQL database queries. Sounds like they want co-scripter for SQL.
There’s a problem of hunting through all the queries to find the one you want. They want effective search and browsing, and also assistance in composing new [...]
Georgia Koutrika et al. from Stanford built a system called “Courserank”—a place to evaluate courses. It has been used by 98% of freshman at Stanford. In addition to just picking courses, it offers a number of interesting social features. It’s planner page lets students enter their entire plan for all years in school, classes and [...]
Did you notice the little icons near you google search results this morning (at least if you were logged on your google account when you did the search). They are SearchWiki icons. This way, if you like or a result, you can promote it, so that it will always show in 1st position when you [...]
In a recent bout of interest in ‘personal information management,’ I’ve been thinking about and talking to people about the way we stay organized and on top of things. Some people like GTD, others use google gcal/gmail/etc, others use post-its, and a whole host of people don’t record this information at all. Instead, they do [...]
This post about ISWC got lost in the drafts pile, so I’m publishing it a bit late.
The folks from Tagora spoke about the relationships between different tags that get applied to the same document, and the tags that different people apply to the same documents. The looked at the ternary relation (user, resource, tag) and [...]