I made my first visit to the DERI Café today.
The new restaurant is located on the ground floor of the DERI building in Dangan, Galway (here), and serves a mean (as in good) breakfast roll! It is being run by Café Togo, who already operate the very popular Friars restaurant on campus.
It’s great to have an alternative eating place in the IDA Business Park, and it’ll be good to have an excuse to meet up with people from the various IT companies located here.
…and off the antibiotics - yay! Some nasty bugs going around this Christmas, and really virulent too.
I’ve been nominated in the Digital Media awards “Content / Blogging Award” category. Thanks to my nominee (Brendan) and I’m looking forward to the event!
In other news, I gave my first lectures in CT108 Next Generation Technologies I (Semantic Web) and DM110 Emerging Web Media yesterday - I’ll be uploading a PDF of the slides after each week’s lecture. We’ve provisionally booked a guest lecturer for DM110, none other than Conn Ó Muineachain from Edgecast…
Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007)
in conjunction with
10th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2007
in co-operation with ACM SIGMIS
Poznan, Poland
April 25 - 27, 2007
Deadline for submissions: February 18, 2007
The emergence of community-based Web sites and the visible shift from the concept of “a Web of documents” towards "a Web of people” creates a strong need for inter-disciplinary empirical and theoretical research focused on Web-based communities. On one hand, this requires expertise in the IT domain, including some knowledge of systems architectures and information extraction technologies. On the other hand, a multi-aspect analysis of human behaviour on the Web is possible thanks to existing frameworks within social sciences.
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An interesting article by Mary McKnight from RSS Pieces (guesting on the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog) about how SIOC and FOAF can be applied to the application domain of real estate:
2007 Real Estate Technology Predictions
Homeless Technologies
Wandering the web, I see a lot of homeless technologies. What are homeless technologies? These are the wild, wacky and “wow” technologies that just don’t have a use yet. These are not the beta projects that 4 kids in a basement are coding away at or the silent well-funded threats that are already lurking out there on the web. Instead, they are the high-level information aggregation models covered in college theses and the concepts pontificated on by the geekiest of the geeks at the geekiest of conferences. So, here’s my list of some homeless technologies that are just begging to find residence in the real estate industry within the next year or so.
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Uses for the semantic web in real estate:
- Internet subscriptions: Once SIOC is enabled, users will be able to subscribe via RSS or ATOM not to individual sites but the Internet as a whole based on their related interests. Realtors will be able to aggregate all related data on MLS, emerging technologies and market data from a single source. Gone will be the days of hunting the web for the latest greatest development. The semantic web will do that for you. Similarly, homeowners and buyers will be able to subscribe to aggregated listing feeds
- SIOC enabled search engines: SIOC engine will deliver more relevant search results based on your queries. For example if you do a search for “homes for sale in Cape Coral” the search engine will say I found these sites and would also provide a link that says if you think this article is helpful, you may also want to read this article as well. Search engines will work better because each article will have contextual information that is attached to it and helps guide the spider rather than having the search engine decide what it “thinks” your article is about.
- Content suggestion tools: Your visitor has read an interesting article about home selling trends in your farm area but they want to learn more. Using SIOC you would be able to suggest related articles based on topic. The end result is that you are able to help your client find more and relevant information on their specific areas of interest. Essentially you build your credibility as a trusted source and data center to your visitors.
…but I’m suffering from a viral chest infection, grrr!
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