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Thomas Thurner

Vienna Semantic Web Meetup – the next season

by , Category: Corporate Semantic Web, Enterprise 2.0, Internet & Media, Linked Data & Open Data, Mashups & Web services, Open Government Data

Started mid 2009, Vienna Semantic Web Meetup (VSWM) goes now in it’s third year. Hosted by various partners, from media to culture and from corporate to academic, this regular gathering now counts over 200 members. As it is a good tradition at VSWM, people from abroad are visiting by, giving input and new insights. Also the next season of VSWM will bring this mixture of international connection and informal meeting in putting two upcoming topics onto the agenda.

Digital Identity on the Semantic Web
Thursday, April 7, 2011

While recent developments in ICT make it easier for companies and consumers to reach each other, they can also scatter your personal information more widely, making life easier for criminals. On the other hand public institutions and government agencies are collecting personal data too. So personal data is processed without the consensus (or even the knowledge) of the respective citizen. As we know, leaks in this field may unleash sensible personal data as well. The misuse of personal data can be restricted – this is a challenge to both, the technological and the juridical domain. This meetup takes a look on how Semantic Web Technologies can take over its responsibility in this emerging field.

  • Christof Tschohl (BIM)
    Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights
  • Mischa Tuffield (Garlik)
    A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web (W3C)

>> read more, and register for free

Portals, Apps and Visualizations for Open Government Data
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Picking up Keith Andrews suggestion, this is a MeetUp focusing on tools, services and projects dealing with Visualization, Apps-creation and Portals/Catalogs for Open [Government] Data. As this MeetUp is on the eve of Austrians first Open Government Data – Conference (OGD2011) we expect to meet experts ans enthusiasts from Austria and abroad.

  • Keith Andrews (IICM)
    Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media at Graz University of Technology
  • Andreas Blumauer (SWC)
    Storing, searching, serving Open Government Data – getting an overview on the growing market for open data solutions

>> read more, and register for free



Jana Herwig

Build your own Facebook (Meebo, iPhone,…) apps and widgets with zembly

by , Category: Tools & Software

It’s true: Facebook apps can be pretty annoying, in particular because of some developers’ misconception of viral marketing as represented by the “Spam 20 friends first before using this service” feature.

But if you could write your own Facebook apps, you would avoid all those mistakes, right? Because you would write an application tailored especially to your needs and those of your friends.

If only you could write code…

Worry no longer! It seems as if the “Wiki for Code” has finally arrived with zembly, a web service currently in private beta where users, according to its claim, can “easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web.”

Now this may sound too good to be true, yet it is: On the last day of your KiWi-meeting in Prague, I was able to attend a demo session of zembly given by Jiri Kopsa, one of the engineers in the developer organization connected to Sun Microsystems who are currently working on zembly.

No additional software needs to be installed – using just their browser, users can develop applications for several popular social platforms, including Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial, build apps for their iPhone or other embeddable widgets.

In the demo we were given, Jiri showed us how create a widget that automatically requests the latest Flickr picture. We then deployed the widget on iGoogle as an automatically updating image widget – all that done in considerably less than five minutes. Continue reading →