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Full Title: Journal of Web Semantics 2009 impact factor highest yet: 3.412 Thomson Reuters has released their 2009 Journal Citation Report and we are happy to see that the Journal of Web...
June 18, 2010
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2:10 PM
Full Title: Infochimps provides API for their Twitter and Census datasets Infochips now offers a query API for two interesting datasets: a Twitter collection and US Census data. The Twitter...
June 15, 2010
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11:14 PM
Starbucks announced via Twitter that it will beging offering free wireless Internet access to everyone at all of their US locations on July first. You no longer have to be a registered, card...
June 14, 2010
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4:32 PM
The newly restored complete version of Metropolis opens tonight the Senator Theater for a one-week run. If you like movies about robots, or dystopian futures or just like classic fims that made a...
June 11, 2010
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6:22 PM
UMBC Computer Science alumnus Ralph Semmel (PhD. 1991) was just named as the next director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. APL has a staff of 4,600 and an annual...
June 10, 2010
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6:28 PM
Here’s a quick trick that could significantly speed up your Web surfing. Download and run the open source namebench on your computer. It does a thorough test of your current DNS servers and some...
June 5, 2010
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6:50 PM
Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK) is a 10 day festival running from June 11 to 20 in Washington DC focused on technology, innovation and all things digital — social media, games, policy, multi-media,...
May 31, 2010
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10:03 PM
The June 2010 CACM has an interesting article by Jilin Chen and Joseph Konstan of the University of Minnesota on Conference Paper Selectivity and Impact. The abstract gets right to the point:...
May 29, 2010
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4:30 AM
Baltimoreans are lucky to have access to the new droid-based HTC EVO and Sprint’s 4G service. 3-6 Mbps to your phone! Hiawatha Bray writes avout it in a story in yesterday’s Boston Globe, 4G...
May 28, 2010
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2:39 PM
Google publishes a list of the 1000 most popular Web sites based on unique visitors to the top-level domain. The list is compiled by their (DoubleClick) Ad Planner group and shows estimates for...
May 28, 2010
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12:03 PM