With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services. Our aim is to construct criteria and context for determining the value of user labor for distribution. ...

Since Linus Torvalds presentation at Google about git in May 2007, the adoption and interest for Distributed Version Control Systems has been constantly rising. We will introduce the concept of Distributed ...

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. ...

This comparison is based on my knowledge of Hadoop and the JavaDocs for GridGain 2.0.2. With respect to names, Hadoop jobs are broken down into many tasks, while GridGain reverses that. For this discussion, I'll stick to the Hadoop meanings to avoid confusion.

Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.

Clay Shirky, author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’, talks at the Web 2.0 Conference earlier this month. It’s a brilliant analysis of how until recently we’ve been denying the free time modern life gives us with television and how the internet is beginning to use that untapped free time and mental creativ...

Picking up this book, you may be asking yourself such questions as
"what is a DSL", "how does it fit in with my usual development work"
and "why would I find such a thing useful"?

DBpedia Mobile is a location-centric DBpedia client application for mobile devices consisting of a map view, a Fresnel-based Linked Data browser and a GPS-enabled launcher application.

Open Data Definition allows you to copy your data from one social network to another, keep track of your friends network and synchronise your data across services. Simple to use and trivial to implement, this is your fastest route to true data portability.

Friends In Feed is an experiment in secure distributed social networking. The goal is to allow you to host your identity in a place of your choosing and maintain control over your personal information, yet at the same time interact with your friends and family in a secure manner.

OAI2LOD Server exposes any OAI-PMH compliant metadata repository according to the Linked Data guidelines. This makes things and media objects accessible via HTTP URIs and query able via the SPARQL protocol. Parts of the OAI2LOD architecture, especially the front-end, are based on the D2R Server impl...

knowee is an open-source web contact organizer (or "online social graph manager" for better buzzword compliance). It's decentralized and lets you aggregate, track, organize, and share information about you and the people you know.

Google has released an developer sandbox for iGoogle. The key feature is support for OpenSocial APIs, which means that activities from Google Gadgets can be posted to activity streams on OpenSocial supporting networks and more...

D2R Server is a tool for publishing relational databases on the Semantic Web.
It enables RDF and HTML browsers to navigate the content of the database,
and allows applications to query the database using the SPARQL query language.

Beaucoup plus de personnes tentent aujourd'hui d'innover sur Internet. Pour décrire son mode d'évolution actuel, j'utilise souvent le modèle de la fourmilière. Si vous observez deux ou trois fourmis pendant toute une journée, il est probable que peu de choses intéressantes se produiront. Mais il y e...

XRDS-Simple provides a format and workflow for the discovery of resources metadata, and other linked resources. As web services continue to grow, applications utilize a wider range of web services and resources across multiple providers. XRDS-Simple allows providers to document their resources in a ...

Triplify provides a building block for the “semantification” of Web applications. Triplify is a small plugin for Web applications, which reveals the semantic structures encoded in relational databases by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data

In this article, they'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. They'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.

Le temps de l’Internet n’est pas celui de la mécanisme bruxello-étatique de distribution de subventions. Quaero a été annoncé il y a trois ans, soit une éternité ! Il remplace maladroitement le capital risque et les business angels. Il ne favorise pas véritablement les entrepreneurs au vu des bénéfi...

The Appleseed Project is an effort to create open source Social Networking software that is based on a distributed model. For instance, a profile on one Appleseed website could "friend" a profile on another Appleseed website, and the two profiles could interact with each other. ...

At Lingway, they've been using Lucene for a few years now. This post is about why Lucene may not be the best choice for future developments (for Lingway), and why the situation may not be close to change

Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation web technology, Mr Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web has said.

Practical Portability, an Open Source project which aims to develop the middleware required to create a single application suite from existing best-of-breed solutions, and in doing so, to develop a reference implementation of DataPortability.