Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you – Old GigaOm
Wikidata, a centralized structured data repository for facts and Wikimedia’s first big new project in the last 7 years, is now feeding the foundation’s main project, Wikipedia. The Wikidata project was kicked off around a year ago by the German chapter of Wikimedia, which is still steering its gradual development. For Wikipedia, the advantage is simple and powerful — if there’s a central, machine-
Facebook builds a database benchmark for a graph-powered world – Old GigaOm
If you’re doing any sort of social-media application, you might want to take note of what Facebook just built. The company has created a benchmarking tool called LinkBench that measures the performance of databases tasked with serving graph-structured data, which, presumably, is the lifeblood of every startup around that’s concerned with who’s connected to whom. Although, of all LinkBench’s featur
Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA – Old GigaOm
As the debate about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) rages on from Silicon Valley to Washington DC, a number of the technology industry’s most influential leaders have come out against the proposed legislation, which would give the government and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet for any alleged copyright infringement. On Thursday, I interviewed Tim O’
Is it a tech boom or a bubble? [Infographic] – Old GigaOm
Is there a tech bubble or, is it really a boom? Ask a thousand people and you are going to get a thousand answers. In fact — as noted investor & commentator Paul Kedrosky points out — there is a bubble in bubble-oriented commentary. For our part, we thought it was best to talk to survivors of the last bubble and learn from them — what they did they right and how they made it through the storm. If
Is it time to retire the 5-star rating system? – Old GigaOm
Thanks to the rating systems in place on such popular websites as Netflix (s NFLX), Amazon (s AMZN) and eBay (s EBAY), many people have become comfortable evaluating things in absolute terms: a two-star restaurant, a B movie and so on. But new research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that this approach to ranking things is fundamentally flawed. Recommendation systems should i
Meet the Web Database Company Google Just Bought (Hint: Not Metaweb) – Old GigaOm
Google (s GOOG) is in the process of acquiring ITA Software, an airfare information provider that brings the company into the realm of vertical travel search. It also creates potentially awkward competition with ITA customers like Kayak and Bing. But travel isn’t the only thing ITA does; a few years ago, a research division of the company started a build-your-own-database tool for web data. Needle
Five Reasons There Is No Adwords for P2P Yet – Old GigaOm
[qi:004] Brand Asset Digital launched its P2P advertising platform P2Pwords today, promising to bring pay-per-click advertising to file-sharing networks like Limewire, Gnutella and Emule. The NY-based company received a largely positive review from John Healey over at The LA Times Bitplayer blog, who thinks that “the opportunity presented by P2Pwords is so large, it may be hard for advertisers to
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5 reasons why good governments should embrace open data – Old GigaOm
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With Jerry Yang Gone, What Yahoo Should Do Next – Old GigaOm
Cyworld Packs Up From U.S., Retreats to Korea – Old GigaOm