Semantic Gnosis Web

The Semantic Web not only covers ontology definitions, but also their relationships and instances. This work describes an adaptable tool for the visualization of all these Semantic Web elements. The tool includes a set of interfaces to enable the inclusion of different visualization tools as plug-ins. Thus, it is divided into four views: ontology groups, ontology mappings, ontologies and instances. Some algorithms are included but we are planning to develop new ones to improve the tool capabilities. The tool has also been successfully applied to develop a graphical query interface that takes advantage of the ontology and instance levels.

Amid a blizzard of announcements at its I/O conference, Google unveiled a major change to its core search product in singularly low-key fashion.

Amit Singhal, a senior Google executive in charge of its search efforts, said that Google search, starting today, wouldn't just answer the question implied in the words we type into that ubiquitous search box. Google, Singhal said, would display results that "anticipate the next question."

Singhal gave the example of a search for "the population of India." The searcher wants a number, yes—but it's likely that they're on the hunt for more information about India after that. There's no reason why Google shouldn't get a jump start on answering those questions.

That word Singhal used—"anticipate"—is a powerful one in the field of artificial intelligence. Anticipatory systems, as we've written, are a hot field that's been moving from theory to practice. There are apps today that will recommend a restaurant, a purchase, even a date. And we've noted how anticipatory systems are the future of search.

But with this latest update, Google is launching the biggest real-world experiment in anticipatory systems ever, with hundreds of millions of its search users getting a glimpse of the anticipatory future today.

Google Maps, too, is getting an anticipatory update. Search for the "Walt Disney Family Museum," a popular San Francisco institution, and you might get another kid-friendly museum suggested, like the Exploratorium, based on the reasonable assumption that you're looking for a place to go with your family.

Speaking in Dublin, he warned that to impose austerity in a recession was going to be disastrous and would slow growth.

"The whole point of austerity is to erode social fabric. It's hard to have any justification for it," he said during a lecture at the Royal Dublin Showgrounds (RDS).

"What Europe needs is something to stimulate the economy. The consumers cannot provide much demand because they are paying for debt from the crises created by the banks with government support."

In a reference to the Republic of Ireland, he said the policy there was to "bail out the criminals and let the taxpayers take the burden".

Today, the Software Freedom Law Center published Managing Copyright Information within a Free Software Project, a guide to help developers maintain the license and copyright notices associated with their projects.

Thank you Google for the new homework assignment: Hangouts vs. Chat

Summary: Google today broke Google Chat by forcing Hangouts on all of us. David Gewirtz gets all cranky about the change. It's not pretty.

By David Gewirtz for DIY-IT |May 16, 2013 -- 15:19 GMT (08:19 PDT)

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I really dislike software updates. It didn't used to be that way. It used to be I looked forward to the new features, new capabilities, new toys.

But that was before I had a life and responsibilities. Now I have both, and I find myself to be somewhat more change-averse.

Today, a day I had a lot of other more important things to do, Google decided to break one of my most-relied-upon resources: Google Chat.

Let me be clear: I use Google Chat for work. I talk to many of my colleagues about work-related activities, about ZDNet editorial, and about projects I'm working on.

I don't hang out.

I don't use Google Chat to make new friends or to share small details about the danish I had for breakfast or hear about new TV shows. I use it to coordinate meeting schedules, deliverables, titles, abstracts, article drop times, and the like.

My Google Chat list is carefully curated. There are about 30 people on it, all of whom have something to do with work

My Google Chat list is carefully curated. There are about 30 people on it, all of whom have something to do with work. Robert Scoble, as much as I like Robert, has never been on my Google Chat list, because I don't work with him.

Today, all that changed. My Chat list is gone. In fact, my nice little Google Chrome extension for Chat is gone as well. Poof. Stolen, like the time stolen from me today trying to recover my work messaging system.

In its place is Hangouts (and Robert is on the list). I had a British professor who used to titter every time someone mentioned hanging out, because to him, hanging out meant, well, something very inadvisable in public.

I don't want to hang out (either using my professor's definition or the more mundane one) with my work associates. I want to send a quick chat and get back to work. So do they.

This morning, however, I have to figure out what happened to my list of work associates, figure out how to get Chat back, figure out how to stop everyone in my Google Plus (which today is such a minus!) from hanging out on my desktop, and then wonder if every other work associate I've got has the same issue and whether all our productivity for the next week has just gone down the chute.

So, thanks Google. Thank you so plus'n much.

LinkedIn Corp. ( LNKD ) has adopted the acquisition for growth strategy. The company recently agreed to acquire a news reading and mobile content distribution company, Pulse.

Pulse is a well-known platform for content gathering from the Internet. This platform has more than 30 million users across 190 countries, accessible through iOS and Android-based newsreader applications. Available in 9 languages, Pulse has more than 9 million users throughout the United States. 750 leading publishers worldwide distribute their content using the Pulse platform.

The Pulse acquisition will bring in new talent, technology, and products, which will add to the company's growing portfolio. Moreover, it will also enhance LNKD's ability to deliver its services.

LinkedIn takes the acquisition for growth strategy seriously, which is evident from its past acquisition of SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock, in May 2012.

Although acquisitions have added to the current portfolio of products and services, integration with the company's current business model remains an issue.

Moreover, competition is also intensifying, with companies such as Facebook ( FB ), Google ( GOOG ) and Twitter. Similar to LinkedIn's business model, these companies have started offering services that can cater to the professional world. Apart from hiring, the services include buying, selling and sales leads.

Linkedln currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). The company is trying to hedge itself from the intense competition by adding new products and services to its professional networking space. However, the emergence of companies like ValueClick Inc. ( VCLK ), offering innovative interactive solution could change the scenario rapidly over the next few years.

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One of the oddest bits of news to emerge from the economic collapse of Cyprus is a corresponding rise in the value of Bitcoin, the Internet’s favorite, media-friendly, anarchist crypto-currency. In Spain, Google (GOOG) searches for “Bitcoin” and downloads of Bitcoin apps soared. The value of a Bitcoin went up to $78. Someone put out a press release promising a Bitcoin ATM in Cyprus. Far away, in Canada, a man said he’d sell his house for BTC5,362.

Bitcoin was created in 2009 by a pseudonymous hacker who calls him or herself Satoshi Nakamoto (and who might be several people). It’s a form of virtual cash used to buy goods and services online. Even by Web standards, it’s a strange and supergeeky phenomenon. This is what happens when software and networks meet the concept of currency, when you take peer-to-peer networks and advanced cryptography and ask, “How can I make a new economy?”

There are 10,952,975 Bitcoins in circulation. (With a digital currency you can be specific.) Bitcoin isn’t about to replace hard currency—with a market cap of $864 million, all of it is worth less than what Facebook (FB) paid for Instagram—but it’s bigger than anyone expected. And many people will tell you that the emergence of a virtual global money supply beyond the reach and control of any government is very real and that it’s time we take it seriously. As long as the Internet remains turned on, Bitcoin will be there—to its adherents, it’s the Platonic currency.

A dollar bill has a serial number and travels from buyer to seller. A Bitcoin’s not so much a thing as an understanding, a balance in a decentralized general ledger, or “account log.” Bitcoins are created as the side effect of a great deal of meaningless computational work. That is, the computer could be working on protein-folding, or processing images, or doing something else with its time, but instead it’s being used to “mine” Bitcoins—searching for mathematical needles in a networked haystack. Once the needle is found, a “block” of Bitcoins is born. Bitcoins live in a bit of software known as your “wallet.”

How did they get there? Perhaps you minted them by mining, or bought them on an exchange, or received them as part of a barter transaction. Now those Bitcoins are burning a bithole in your bitpocket, and you want to buy something. How do you spend them? Clicking around your wallet app, you set up a payment and put in the Bitcoin address of the recipient—something memorable and fun, like 1Ns17iag9jJgTHD1VXjvLCEnZuQ3rJDE9L. A few minutes later, after the peer-to-peer network has authorized the transaction as legitimate, the recipient’s wallet, wherever it is, will show that you’ve paid up.

How is this different from PayPal (EBAY)? In theory anyone could run his own version of PayPal on a server and use that to transfer funds between parties. But he’d also need to handle world currencies, deal with security, and handle regulations. Similarly, physical banks promise protections above and beyond stuffing cash in a mattress or dropping it off in paper bags. Financial institutions commodify trust—it’s not their money, after all. It’s yours. Yet you trust them more than you trust yourself.

Bitcoin shrugs all this off. It’s not pegged to anything, and there are no regulations. It’s a supercomputer-size chore to counterfeit. The key thing to understand is that there’s no bank, no Federal Reserve, in the middle. It’s not unlike an exchange-traded fund (for example, FORX, from Pimco)—a mix of non-U.S. currencies—designed as a hedge against the dollar. Bitcoin is a hedge against the entire global currency system. And no exchange is needed, unless you want to convert your Bitcoin into an actual hard currency.

Bitcoin is no more arbitrary than derivatives or credit default swaps. Given that regular folks, if they’re nerdy and interested in Bitcoins, can use the currency for all manner of things, including illegal things, it’s arguably a far less arbitrary instrument.

Maybe Bitcoin’s devotees are right, and it’s the currency of the future. Or perhaps it’s a ridiculous joke—a speculative, hilarious enterprise taken to its most insane conclusion. Given that the founder is nowhere to be found, it feels like a hoax, a parody of the global economy. That the technology used to implement it has, so far, shown itself to be impeccable and completely functional, and that it’s actually being exchanged, just makes it a better joke. The truth is, it doesn’t much matter if it’s a joke or not. It works.

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Britain is to sell off a big chunk of its gold reserves because what was once one of the world's most precious commodities is losing its value.

The UK is selling 415 tonnes of its 715 tonnes of gold, around 10% of its total Treasury holdings, as it 'restructures' its reserves.

This is more than half the treasury's hoard of gold, secured in vaults under the Bank of England.

A UK Treasury spokesman said: "Our aim is to optimise and diversify our portfolio with a sensible risk return balance."

The UK will buy more foreign currencies with the proceeds.

The first tranche of 125 tons will be sold in the next year.