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Google’s Metaweb – Smartest Data Organization

Metaweb, a formerly San Francisco startup, now Google’s company (2010) helps smartest search engine to find and distinguish different words that may have different values like Paris may be Paris France or Paris Hilton. The complicated mechanics of metaweb uses semantic relationships between people and things from around the web, including websites, ebooks, information about movies, and businesses – all combined in open Freebase database maintained by Google. In other words, Metaweb maintains Freebase.

via Freebase.com – Metaweb (the company) has developed Metaweb (the database and API). Freebase (the open global structured knowledge base) is a high-profile public instantiation of the Metaweb technology. This manual documents general Metaweb services and APIs, and relies on Freebase for example data and applications. The services and APIs are applicable beyond Freebase, however, and you’ll find that this manual uses the name “Metaweb” far more than it does the name “Freebase”.

Wikipedia and Emergence – Happy Birthday!

The State of Wikipedia

From Wikipedia: In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, EMERGENCE is the way complex systemsmultiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. and patterns arise out of a

The early draft of Emergence book by Steven Johnson, the American Popular Science author, had subtitle: “Emergence: What the New Science Can Teach Us About Our Minds, Our Communities, and Ourselves.” changing it later to “Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.” The book was published in 2001, and so the Wikipedia project, a free web-based, collaborative online reference. Both are Ten-Year Old Babies this year!

Wikipedia Brand via visual storytelling

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IDEO: The Future of the Book

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?

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I.T. Quarterly Division Meeting: Luce Awards 2010

“We’re premium brands, producing premium content for premium customers”
- John Huey, Editor-in-Chief, Time inc.

Time Inc. held its 12th annual Luce Awards, where InStyle won Magazine of the Year. Here’s what the editors of TIME, Sports Illustrated, PEOPLE, FORTUNE, EW and other Time Inc. brands have to say about access and producing incredible journalism. – I am a Web Technology Fellow there.