Tags: www2008
Tags: www2008
Tyler Close: Using Promises to Orchestrate Web Interactions
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Web Authentication with Selective Delegation using SRP
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Taking Search to New Frontiers: Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)
Posted Thursday April 24, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
Harry Shum (click to enlarge) Harry shows a demo (actually it was his trusty sidekick "Graham") where user action (dragging a particular picture to a special zone on the page) reorders the search results and filters them according to additional user action.
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Computational Advertising
Posted Thursday April 24, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
Finding the right ad is a query problem, but the ad database is smaller than the database of web pages. For example viewing the query "TFM-PCIV92A" doesn't give you a lot of information about what this is about, but looking at the results tells you this is about 56K baud modems.
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WWW2008 Conference Dinner at Great Hall of the People
Posted Thursday April 24, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Cloud Computing: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee of Google
Posted Wednesday April 23, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
That said, in terms of eGovernment, there was mostly information there, not much in the way of services I could see. Task centric People don't want to make spreadsheets or write documents. Power Lots of computers in a cloud can do things you can't do with a single PC.
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Trust-Based Recommendation Systems
Posted Wednesday April 23, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
The details are fairly complex, but the basic idea is that by proposing axioms until you get an inconsistency in the axiom set and then backing off and exploring other axioms to add to the set, you can generate unique recommendation systems that have a provable set of properties.
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Exploring Beijing
Posted Tuesday April 22, 2008, 12:31 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
There were at least a dozen of them all working with hand tools--picks and shovels. Of course, everything is being spruced up for the Olympics and there's plenty of poverty around, but the message that comes through loud and clear is that people are working their way up.
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