The final program for the #Microposts2016 workshop at the 25th International World Wide Web conference is ready. We’ll be in Room 520F, see you in Montreal! SESSION I 9:00 – 9:20 Welcome & Introduction 9:20 – 10:20 Invited Talk – Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs) 10:20 – 10:30 Lightning Round – Posters 10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break with …
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Call For Papers: #Microposts2016 workshop @www2016ca
As an Organising Committee Chair of the Microposts 2016 workshop at the 25th World Wide Web conference, I am inviting you to check out the Call for papers and contribute with your expertise and research. The workshop is interdiscipinary and gathers academics and professionals from the Computational Sciences and Social/Web Science …
100 Quotes by 100 Women about the Web
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate – everywhere – about the web we want.- Sir Tim Berners-Lee Web We Want is a global movement to defend, claim and change the future of the Web. The focus is …
Connecting the Quantum Dots
(This post was originally written for Australian Science) Last week, after I spent a couple of days in Brest, Brittany at a ESF, EU workshop/seminar brainstorming with other internet and scientific researchers on interesting topics related to internet science and innovation, I got myself back to Paris. I visited a …
Making sense out of data: coding, creating, contributing
Ok, here’s what I’ve been doing in the previous couple of weeks (among other things). I cannot reveal it completely right now, just a little sneak-peak (see the snapshot). Beside e-resources and data I’ve been collecting, processing, and analysing, I’ve created a huge analogue map made out of more than 60 …
Interview / Marcus Foth
As an internet researcher and social media consultant, I ask some of the guests to tell me and my readers more about themselves, their current projects, and their views on topics including internet technology, the use of the Web in science and education, and certain aspects of the digital technologies …
Interview / Kingsley Idehen
Being a Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Open Source enthusiast, and at some point the contributor to the AP for the FOAF and other metadata standards, recently I had an opportunity to talk with Kingsley Idehen on his current projects, views on the use of the Web technologies, Open Linked Data, WebID, serendipity, and …