After playing with Pivot, I have been really existed by the possibilities that Pivot offers.
”Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.”
Simply speaking, Pivot is a tool that helps us visually browse collections of information.

Figure 1: Item view in Pivot while browsing the mathematics [...]

Search engine are not doing search anymore… No search is for small player, now the real thing is to have an evolved engine. Where Wolframalpha offer a computational knowledge engine, Bing offer a decision engine. So far Google can keep being Google fearless ; )
Bing (also known as Kumo) should be publicly available on June 3rd. At least the name [...]

Wolframalpha the so called computational knowledge engine, is finally available to the public :)
Why and when would you want to switch from Google, Yahoo or Live?
The answer is quite simple: Wolfram will give you an answer while other search engines will gives you a (too huge) set of related pages where you can go if the [...]

A few weeks ago, I followed a presentation at Digicomp called “From Ethical Hacking to IT-Forensic” presented by Juerg Fischer. The most interesting part I kept from the presentation (that was in German so may explain the little I remember from it :) ) was about the tools and resources useful for the differents phases of the penetration [...]

Microsoft in its fight for search market share has finally acquire Powerset (a natural language processing system). The system is really impressive and could be a real value for users. For example if you type in ‘How tall is the Eiffel Tower’ you will have the answer: 300.65 Meters
According to an interview in TechCrunch the [...]

Really interesting article from Technology Review about a Paper written by John Hauser, Glen L. Urban, Guilherme Liberali and Michael Braun.
It is about finding the user’s cognitive style (“a person’s preferred way of gathering, processing, and evaluating information”) by analyzing their pattern of click. In around 10 clicks the system can figure out whether a [...]

Just watched this great video from Phil Borges on ‘Documenting our endangered cultures’ at TED.
I also love the idea of ‘Bridges to Understanding‘, take a look an act if possible :)

Ahmet

Recently Digg made an official adoption of RDFa (a set of extensions to XHTML being proposed by the W3C). While watching a tutorial about RDFa (below video) I asked myself how it could be possible to do it for Flash/ Flex document.

In fact bringing RDFa to a SWF itself is not possible, as I [...]

I’ve been very interested in tags lately, for me tags are the perfect combination between human and computer.
Computers can easily links a lot of tagged content together while human can easily tag complex document. Computer can’t extract the semantic of document and human can’t recall all the document concerning a topic…
Now let’s focus on why [...]

Very interesting article from ‘The blog of the Augmented Social Cognition Research Group at Palo Alto Research Center‘ about the effect of social tagging on memory.

[...]As reported in the paper, the results suggest that:
* In the type-to-tag condition, users appears to elaborate what they have just read, and re-encoded the knowledge [...]