Posted by Dan Farber @ 5:27 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine Posted by Dan Farber @ 5:27 pm Categories: Web Technology, Semantic Web, Web 2.0 Summit 07 Tags: Web, Network, Data, Powerset, Twine, Freebase, Freebase Database, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet Danny Hillis (Metaweb), Barney Pell (Powerset) and Nova Spivack (Radar Networks) shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped and loaded with experience and talent. In fact, Hillis, Pell and Spivack have been part of the Silicon Valley AI community for the last dozen years. Danny Hillis was a founder of Thinking Machines, where Spivack worked for a period. ...

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Posted by Harry Fuller @ 4:56 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 German engineering triumphs in American solar decathlon Posted by Harry Fuller @ 4:56 pm Categories: Blogroll, green tech, renewable energy, energy, climate change, global warming, research, federal government, air pollution, housing, building, Europe, solar, conservation, engineering, environmental health Tags: Team, House, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller Darmstadt took first prize today in the Solar Decathlon for universities. It was the only entry from Germany among the 20 competing schools. We showed their entry in a blog earlier this week. Heres what the official Decathlon site said about the winning entry, First Place: Technische Universit?t Darmstadt. This team from Germany came to the Solar Decathlon hoping to have an impact on people,...

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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 4:46 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Google playing angles to make Facebook deal? Posted by Garett Rogers @ 4:46 pm Categories: Acquisition Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Social Networking, Investment, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Garett Rogers Sergey Brin was spotted having dinner with an associate from Greylock that is said to be involved in that companys Facebook investment. The meeting seemed to be important and rushed enough to hold just hours before Googles Q3 earnings conference call yesterday. Rumors of a hot deal-making session were quickly dissolved by people who were actually at the dinner table, but it is still interesting to see that particular mix of people together even if it turns out to be a false alarm. Would a Facebook acquisition a...

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Posted by Richard Stiennon @ 3:30 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 DHS has some house keeping to do Posted by Richard Stiennon @ 3:30 pm Categories: Security, State Sponsored Hacking Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Security, Richard Stiennon The office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security has issued a 41 page report on how the department is progressing on security. Summary findings: Systems are being accredited without key documents or missing key information. Plans of Action and Milestones are not being created for all information security weaknesses. Plans of Action and Milestones are not being monitored and resolved in a timely manner. Baseline security configurations are not being implemented for all systems. This report is part of an ongoing requirement of every branch...

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Posted by David Berlind @ 3:29 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsofts next flop Posted by David Berlind @ 3:29 pm Categories: General, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology Tags: Ars Technica, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Flamingkittens, Sue, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems Literally within minutes of each other (strangely coincidental), I received two e-mails one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed their identity that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the chances that Microsofts Windows Home Server will succeed. My colleague Shawn Morton over at sister CNET Networks property Tech Republic simply notified me that he had responded in his blog. The headline of his...

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Posted by Dan Farber @ 2:56 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Surfing the Relationship Update Stream Posted by Dan Farber @ 2:56 pm Categories: General, Web Technology, Social networking, Web 2.0 Summit 07 Tags: Service, Relationship Update Stream, Robots, Social Networking, Construction, Web 2.0, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon are on a mission to free up the social graph from walled gardens (see their Thoughts on the Social Graph). Executives from MySpace, Facebook and Google agree that users should own their own data, including their social graph (the people they are connected to a social network), but so far the walls have not come down much. We want to get to a point that just as blogs sites cant launch without RSS or Atom,...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 2:53 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King James Bible Posted by Russell Shaw @ 2:53 pm Categories: Comcast Tags: BitTorrent, Associated Press, Bible, Comcast Corp., Computer, Productivity, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Russell Shaw After noting claims by users (first reported in this DSL Forum thread) that Comcast was blocking file-sharing traffic, the Associated Press decided to test this assertion by doing some tests of their own. They were looking for a non-copyrighted, non-infringing work of considerable length. Length, as in lots of bytes. AP selected the King James Bible, with transfers attempted via BitTorrent from Comcast-connected computers in the Philadelphia and San Francisco metro ...

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Posted by Paula Rooney @ 12:59 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Acacia denies patent claim is an attack on open source, denies any Microsoft role Posted by Paula Rooney @ 12:59 pm Categories: Development, Linux, Legal, Patents, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, Infrastructure, Distributions, Microsoft, business models, IBM, GPL, Red Hat Tags: Patent, IP, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Acacia, Open Source, Paula Rooney In Focus ? See more posts on: Microsoft Novell Acacia Research Corp. on Friday released a statement to ZDNets Open source Blog writers regarding the patent infringement case it filed against Red Hat and Novell on October 9. In the statement, which appears below in its entirety, Acacia insists that its patent claim is not in any way an attack at open source software and vigorously denies that Microsoft has an...

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Posted by Harry Fuller @ 12:36 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Forget Gore, remember this name: Roderick Bremby Posted by Harry Fuller @ 12:36 pm Categories: Blogroll, renewable energy, energy, climate change, global warming, fossil fuel, state government, air pollution, law & politics, conservation, environmental health Tags: Kansas, Global Warming, Sure Gore, Harry Fuller Sure Gore has talked a lot about global warming, earning a Nobel Pirze and infuriating his nay-sayers. But what has he actually done? Well, now one Roderick Bremby has leap-frogged to the top of any list of American global warming activists. Mr. Bremby is Kansass state secretary of health and enviornment. And for what is probably the first time in U.S. history he stopped construction of a new coal-burning power plantbasedhere it comes: on CO2...

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Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 12:20 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Workstream prefers virtualization to multi-tenancy Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 12:20 pm Categories: Architecture, HRM Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Environment, On-demand, Vendor, Human Capital Management, VMware Inc., Workstream, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS) Among the product announcements at last weeks HR Technology conference in Chicago was a major relaunch from Nasdaq-listed SaaS vendor Workstream. The unveiling of its flagship TalentCenter 7.0 marks the companys emergence from a period of much behind-the-scenes work. We really went invisible for the past sixteen months while we reinvented ourselves, senior VP of marketing Gary Damiano told me in a briefing last month. That reinvention includes the hiring at the beginning...

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Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 12:20 pm   Year:October 19th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

October 19th, 2007 Workstream prefers virtualization to multi-tenancy Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 12:20 pm Categories: Architecture, HRM Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Environment, On-demand, Vendor, Human Capital Management, VMware Inc., Workstream, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS) Among the product announcements at last weeks HR Technology conference in Chicago was a major relaunch from Nasdaq-listed SaaS vendor Workstream. The unveiling of its flagship TalentCenter 7.0 marks the companys emergence from a period of much behind-the-scenes work. We really went invisible for the past sixteen months while we reinvented ourselves, senior VP of marketing Gary Damiano told me in a briefing last month. That reinvention includes the hiring at the beginning...

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