By carlotorniai on December 30, 2009
Ok this year is moist diffiult than ever…as one of my latest status updates made it clear few days ago:
“You realize you’re getting old when you discover that you’ve listen just 1/5 of the top 50 album of the year published by pitchfork.com”.
So this year is the worst ever: I haven listen to very few records this year (for my standards at least)
Anyway things are how they are so .. no worries..
So I’ve tried to spend 1o minutes thinking about without looking at my iTunes or iPhone… and that’s my pick:
Continue reading “Best Albums of 2009 (AKA getting older)”
Posted in Music, Personal, Reviews | Tagged 2009, album, best, indie rock, pitchfork |
By carlotorniai on September 15, 2009
I’m playing around with ranker.com.
I’ve found the user interface really interesting. I think that ranker.com has really good potential. I would like to see more integration across applications (import of text and Excel files for instance) and other social networks.
It is also an interesting playground for some Semantic Web stuff. Check it out!
This is a test to embed one of the list I’ve created…
Posted in Music, Reviews, Semantic Web | Tagged concerts, list, ranker.com, Review |
By carlotorniai on August 27, 2009
Lahh Team
Support a great nonprofit! Help Los Angeles Habilitation House to with the “Share to Win” Contest. Visit http://bit.ly/Q9mlC , leave a comment help LAHH create and maintain job opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities and our returning veterans living life with PTSD and TBI. Detailed instructions here: http://bit.ly/3elEeY .
Here is their website: http://www.lahabilitationhouse.org/
Please spread the word!
Posted in Personal | Tagged disables, employment, lahh, Los angeles, Los Angeles Habilitation House, os1, PTSD, TBI, veterans |
By carlotorniai on August 18, 2009
Recently I had the chance to evaluate for a consulting job several Backup and Online File Storage solutions. The client is a small company with a clear idea of their needs and requirements. I went trough a lot of testing, customer service relationships and cost/benefits evaluation to finalize the following shortlist:
Continue reading “Online File Storage and Backup solutions: which one?”
Posted in Reviews, Technology | Tagged Bakcup, box.net, dropbox, evaluation, ibackup, memopal, Online FIle Storage, Review, sugarsync, trueshare |
By carlotorniai on July 25, 2009
In a previous post I’ve highlighted the need of simple tools that can be easily accessed by a large number of users in order to
- ease the process of publishing and retrieving structured information
- show the value of having structured information on the web
Recently at Deri Giovanni Tummarello and his rsearch group has launched a service called Sigma which easily fits in these categories.
Sigma is a search engine for structured data based on Sindice.
Sindice parses the information on the web looking for RDFa and microformats, in particular it parses well known structured information in pages such as Wikipedia, Wordpress blogs, Linkedin, Flickr, Facebook, etc. retrieving information and translating it in triples.
Continue reading “Semantic Web for the masses? - Part II”
Posted in Semantic Web, Technology | Tagged Deri, JSON, microformats, RDF, RDFa, Semantic Web, Sigma, Sindice |
By carlotorniai on July 2, 2009
Last Saturday I’ve attended the Explosions in the Sky concert at the Hollywood Palladium. Read my review here
Recensione in Italiano
Posted in Music, Reviews | Tagged Explosions in the Sky, Hollywood Palladium, post-rock, Review, Tour |
By carlotorniai on June 29, 2009
A very interesting discussion is going on in a long thread started in the Linked Data Publc mailing list.
The main point is about what are the barriers that prevents the Semantic Web to spread and what it has to be done to make it easy for non-researcher to create, publish and use RDF data. Personally I think that - in the first place - there’s the need to define simple steps that web developers can take towards the Semantic Web.
Besides the fact that RDFa seems to be the simplest (even not problem-free) approach so far, I think that the discussion and the efforts have to focus on tools can be provided to web developers to deal with semantic information, all the rest (as we’ve seen in the early days of the Web) will come.
I would like to see soon an intuitive RDFa extension for Dreamweaver, or a decent Wordpress Plugin. Let’s start form here and then we’ll probably find even the best way to deal with the pain of publishing RDF as Linked Data on Apache. But the latter is not the first issue that currently has to be solved. IMHO, at least.
Posted in Semantic Web, Technology, Web dev | Tagged Apache, Dreamweaver, RDFa, Semantic Web, Wordpress |
